Joan morrissey biography smiths
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Autobiography
From nowhere comes the California cobra chords of Run run run by Jo Jo Gunne and Heaven must have sent you by the Elgins- wide variables on an open pitch, all adapting to different listeners- the well and the ill. All of this starts me, and I cannot stop. If I can barely speak (which is true), then I shall surely sing.
The fields run to the edges of the pages, gilted leaves tucked as a mark between to say, to someone (anyone?) this is still happening. Haircuts bob up and down in television seas. They are breathed on colors of don't do that. They still say, somewhere. The 1960s Manchester is wide open mouth in front of television baby. Heart in it and breath holding. The poets live in your heart and they say, they say. Everyone is on, tonight. They will have their say. I was moved. Morrissey could speak to me about families inside of tv with tucked in faces, cared about. Where streets hold in that someday they won't be able to say but right now, and right now is forever, his sister is tormented by a gaping chorus of the big bad teachers from Pink Floyd's The Wall. When he writes of the shatters of A.E. Housman, the heart shards not picked up but shadows casted. You could live this way, another. This was the Morrissey book of my dreams wh
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Allen, Richard
- The title of his skinheads novel "Suedehead" indirectly inspired the title of Morrissey's first solo single. See quote at the bottom of this page.
Archer, Jeffrey
- His novel "First Among Equals" contains the line: "I was only joking when I said you should be bludgeoned in your bed", a line also found in the lyrics of the Smiths' "Bigmouth Strikes Again".
Auden, W.H.
- A recording of him reading his poetry was supposedly played during intermission on a portion of the 2009 Tour Of Refusal.
- Morrissey talks about his teenage love for Auden's poetry in his autobiography, and quotes from one of his poems.
Austen, Jane
- In an interview published in an early 2007 issue of the LA Weekly Morrissey replied to the question "I love Jane Austen. She's a genius. Do you agree?" with the answer "Oh, good grief, yes."
Baldwin, James
- Morrissey expresses his admiration for this author and social critic in his "Autobiography".
- A video of James Baldwin was shown before Morrissey concerts on his 2014 tour.
Barrett Browning, Elizabeth
- She has a poem titled "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways..." a line very similar to the first line in the Smiths' "Shoplifters Of The World Unite" ("learn to love me, assemble the
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