The Importance of Being Morrissey - Part I

worshiped by devoted fans for 20 years and hailed by his peers as a genius he's the outspoken outsider of British pop living in self-imposed exile without a record deal Morrissey remains what he's always been true original and a completely mystery Oscar Wilde the dawn is waiting to his life Marcee it seems to me and I completely identify with Morrissey has sat in a darkened room and in beauty on paper he is one of the only people in pop who has managed to turn themselves into a virtual mythological archetype we've got an interesting face he looks to have a story to tell his eccentricity lies in fury or nature in his ambiguity about his sexuality in the strength and intellectual force of his wife he's so catered for those or lonely misfits that spent a lot of time in their bedrooms there's certain feelings and ideas that he has that he owned he's an original of the species there's not many of them he's certainly one of rock's great enigmas I don't think Morris is normal I think he spent his entire adult life trying to be anything but normal I can't imagine him going in a trendy bar I can't even imagine him walking through Notting Hill Gate rumours about Morrissey abound but no one knows the truth nobody thought you don't know I don't know I'd say his mother knows he probably doesn't even come with his first major TV interview for 16 years an unprecedented access to his life on tour and a home in Los Angeles it's time to put the record straight with an exclusive insight into what it's like being Morrissey lives in LA he travels to check and goes to the beach I don't think he's living in a dark room dressed in black you age gives you a great sense of proportion and you can be very hard on yourself when you're younger and but now I just think what everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well summer 2002 the Morrissey's on a world tour attracts in a new generation of fans marty is the legend he's absolute legend the best prom ever seen enough to Bob Fano us above lingo with a blue jacket everybody Morris a represents everything for us he's our God here nothing's now 43 years old one of the most iconic men in rock music has returned home for two rare London concerts despite no publicity all 10,000 tickets are sold out within a few hours just to make up the numbers I might as he comes to England you [ __ ] know about it or not because there's a press conference at the airport you know I'm not because he's going down to the met bar you know about it because you know about it you know it's as simple as that first night at the Royal Albert Hall and expectations are high even before his onstage because amazing sort of knew he was football chanson Marcy was in the football chant the start assassination vowels is the cube for Morrissey and the guys to walk out it goes you can come over here and do a brief tour and it's kind of like he flex as a muscle you know if he has the crowd going absolutely bonkers business as usual in Morris Island people treat it almost like a religious experience that's crazy when Morris E which is over the night to touch you you no longer feel lonely you feel celebrated in the love of the one common sovereign which is Marcy from the very start of Morris's solo career his concerts have been unique in their scenes of frenzied desperation a Spanish seek to pay homage in the flesh flinging themselves onto the stage to catch the Kings touch you know the king could cure in some way the [ __ ] feeler of loneliness if you notice it's a really old bloke it's not winning it it's men men are in love with him not women because these are fully formed adults and mostly male it's inexplicable it doesn't fit into the only kind of stereotyped heterosexual fantasy young heterosexual men and older heterosexual men respond to that at a homoerotic level I think it speaks to the homosexual component and a lot of heterosexual men as a good should I be the roots of the Morrisey phenomenon lie in the suburbs of Manchester where this previously unseen old movie film was shot in the 1960s it's the only existing footage of his Irish Catholic family with the young Morrissey

Channel: ThePrivilegeIsMine

Views: 23,488

Keywords: Morrissey, Documentary, Los Angeles, London, J.K. Rowling, Michael Bracewell, Alan Bennett, Will Self, Bono, James O'Brien, Chrissie Hynde, Kathy Burke, Linder Sterling, Noel Gallagher, Miranda Sawyer, Harry Hill, Alain Whyte, Nancy Sinatra, Jose Maldonado

Id: Xi4Uad_C2xA

Length: 9min 2sec (542 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 28 2012