Morrissey, the snide young man with the unbuttoned shirt and perfect hair, singer of The Smiths, and now solo artist who might play a laundry list of your favorite songs or not show up at all, turns 65 years old today.
Certain people are forgiven. A few get a pass. Steven Patrick Morrissey, simply for the five short years he fronted The Smiths and gave us four albums and bonus tracks, is off the hook.
It’s OK he’s erratic and temperamental and snotty and sometimes completely wrong and stuck up and obstinate; because even his solo work has few peers.
Dude’s eponymous autobiography is crazy good and the writing is even better than the high expectations one might come to the table with.
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