Morrissey
British singer and songwriter · United Kingdom · Musicians · Born 1959 · age 67
Morrissey is read about 4,150 times a day, in 50 languages.
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The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 390 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?The Smiths made him a cult figure in the 1980s with witty, melancholic lyrics and a refusal to play the rock star - sexually ambiguous, celibate, draped in irony.
A life in dates
Make-Up Is a LieAlbum2020
I Am Not a Dog on a ChainAlbum2019
California SonAlbum2017
Low in High SchoolAlbum2014World Peace Is None of Your BusinessAlbum2009
Years of RefusalAlbum2006
Ringleader of the TormentorsAlbum2004
You Are the QuarryAlbum1997
MaladjustedAlbum1995
Southpaw GrammarAlbum1994
Vauxhall and IAlbum1992
Your ArsenalAlbum1991
Kill UncleAlbum1988
Viva HateAlbum1986“It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind.”In their wordsfrom the 1986 song "I Know It's Over", co-written with Johnny Marr.“And if a double-decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.”In their wordsfrom the 1986 song "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out", co-written with Johnny Marr.1984“So when you say it's gonna happen now. / Well when exactly do you mean? / See I've already waited too long. / And all my hope is gone!”In their wordsfrom the 1984 song "How Soon Is Now?", co-written with Johnny Marr.“Why pamper life's complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger's seat?”In their wordsfrom the 1984 song "This Charming Man", co-written with Johnny Marr.“In my life / Why do I smile / At people who I'd much rather kick in the eye ?”In their wordsfrom the 1984 song "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now", co-written with Johnny Marr.1959Born22 May 1959Also in Deutsch
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Morrissey - 29887267776In their own words 5
, It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind.
And if a double-decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.
So when you say it's gonna happen now. / Well when exactly do you mean? / See I've already waited too long. / And all my hope is gone!
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MLMake-Up Is a Lie
ICI Am Not a Dog on a Chain
CSCalifornia Son
LSLow in High School
YRYears of Refusal
RTRingleader of the Tormentors
YQYou Are the Quarry
MAMaladjusted
SGSouthpaw Grammar
VIVauxhall and I
YAYour Arsenal
KUKill Uncle
VHViva HateAwards
About this person
Born to working-class Irish immigrants in Lancashire in 1959, Steven Patrick Morrissey grew up in Stretford after slum clearance displaced his family from Hulme, absorbing literature, kitchen sink realism, and 1960s pop. A brief punk stint and music journalism led to forming the Smiths with Johnny Marr in 1982; their eponymous debut and three studio albums that followed - Meat Is Murder, The Queen Is Dead, Strangeways, Here We Come - earned critical acclaim and a cult following before personal differences ended the band in 1987. His solo career launched with Viva Hate in 1988 and spanned decades of top-charting albums, a mid-nineties dip, relocation to Los Angeles, and a 2004 comeback with You Are the Quarry. His image morphed from fey outsider to a figure toying with working-class masculinity and British heritage, his outspoken stances on vegetarianism, royalty, and immigration making him as polarising as he remained influential.
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