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Morrissey's drab look by Seb Ramsey, Manchester Online
BACK IN TOWN: MozzaHEAVEN knows I'm middle-aged now...
There was a time when music legend Morrissey would rather have cut off his quiff than join shoppers in Manchester's poshest stores.
But it seems the boy from Stretford is coming of age.
The cap is more golf club than Salford lads club. And the former Smiths frontman, with albums such as The Queen Is Dead to his credit, has apparently ditched Oldham Street in favour of upmarket spots to splash the cash.
With a massive bag of perfumes and colognes from "Acqua Di Parma" at Selfridges, it certainly looks like the 46-year-old is soothing his tortured soul with a hefty dose of retail therapy.
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Update: 08/05 15:45 GMT:
scan of photo/article that appeared in the Manchester Evening News, Aug. 3, 2005 posted on the general board by Damian.
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eatmoretoast also writes:
I hear that Morrissey's picture (wearing flat cap and glasses) (
scan of pic from Naomi) is in the Aug. 3rd Sun describes him as looking like "Jim Bowen".
Non UK fans will not be familiar with Jim Bowen - he presented a game show on UK tv years back ("Bullsye")..
I'm sure that there is no resemblence - "The Sun" is an awful newspaper too..
wow (Score:0)
Hes no dorian gray (Score:0)
where is morrissey
after a 3rd scan
i figured out it was him
on the left side, right ?
markmustb1
Handsome, elegant, and distinguished (Score:1, Funny)
I always imagined having tea with Morrissey, and that photo comes close to my dream.
Anyway, I am tired of seeing Morrissey in a suit (even if it is from a GQ photo shoot)- I can't distinguish Brandon Flowers from Morrissey when they both suit up.
That Maladjusted cover wasn't terrible, either.
He will always be handsome, and always cool. And the glasses are *so* James Dean (from his basketball days)-
With love,
Ken Stavitzke
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Just to Re-Cap... (Score:1)
So he supports businesses in Manchester by shopping there. Why would anyone fault him for that? Even he admitted in an interview that the city has changed.
Retail therapy, indeed.
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Oh dear (Score:0)
hmm... (Score:0)
i guess that's me then...
crap (Score:0)
somehow i dont think moz wanted to be noticed. good for him.
Oh please... (Score:0)
Get over it (Score:0)
Do you want him to go and get plastic surgery like Simon Le Bon?
Not Dark Yet (Score:1, Insightful)
If you look at a photo of Bob Dylan now, a gaunt, wrinkled old man has replaced the wiry beatnik of yore, and yet in 'Time Out Of Mind' and 'Love And Theft' especially, he is making glorious music.
Likewise, the great J Cash - a white-haired, withered wheelchair-bound spectre for his final five years, but that didn't stop him from delivering music of such skyscraping calibre as 'Hurt', 'The Man Comes Around' and 'The Mercy Seat'.
John Cale and Nick Cave are also excellent examples of older artists who are still thriving creatively. And Springsteen to - I believe he will go the stripped down acoustic bluesy route as he enters his late 50s/60s (the 'Devils And Dust' tour certainly indicates this - the acoustic versions of 'I'm On Fire' and 'Brilliant Disguise' are fab!) and I also think that stripped down Springsteen could be spectacular.
As always, the music is everything. Moz can still look distinguised in the right light, but gone are the days when he can be seen as the epitome of youthful outsiderdom. And so what? I believe he will make some of his very best albums in his twilight years if he cares to do so. Eventually, the wounds of the court case will subside - I think his reflections on a life lived and growing older will be fascinating, I really do. So let's hope he carries on making records to the end and really does become the 'alternative Sinatra'. He does need new musicians and producers though - or, at the very least, he needs Boz and Alain to supply new ideas!
Viva Morrissey!
The Sun always use the worst photos! (Score:1)
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really.... (Score:1)
It's becoming quite boring.... as boring as being surprised that someone looks older than they used to.
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the only one? (Score:2, Insightful)
Tabloids are all the same, aren't they -- ready to jump on a person for aging as if it were a crime. Its no wonder plastic sergeons thrive. Anyway, even if he was just Steven Morrissey the librarian I'd say he was a terribly handsome man nonetheless.
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strange (Score:1)
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he is in disguise (Score:1)
poor moz though - every tabloid story starts with 'heaven knows he's miserable now', which sums them up: all they do is celebrate other people's misery (real or invented), and truly miserable people buy them. it's good that he still provokes the sun's mockery. they've been on his case since 'suffer little children'.
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The Harsh Truth... (Score:2, Insightful)
I'll bet you Morrissey can be a bag of wrinkles within a 10 years'time (although highly unlikely) but he will have that "love that is like a needle in the eye". Not even he can help it...it's under the skin, eg. in his body posture, his voice, his gaze,...
ps: who said 46 is (that?) old by the way? I hate to think what 66 looks like in the tabloid eyes - mummys or decayed walking corpses...boo!
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Ladies and Gentlemen (Score:1)
If you would like to "Benchmark" him, do not benchmark against his teenage years, but pop into any Irish Club on any given night any ask the 46 year old male customers to make themselves known to you. THEN COMPARE!
Out of interest, has anyone observed U2 recently? There!
Always true to you (and the offer of the Guiness still stands mate....I'll even pay!)
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That was funny! (Score:2, Funny)
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hmm mmm! (Score:0)
fashion victim
Hey look! (Score:0)
20 years on (Score:2, Insightful)
He looks his age, acts his age, and seem to be reasonably happy. What's the matter that?
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You Can't Beat a Bit 'a Bully! (Score:1)
Could this be the look Morrissey was actually after? I'd like to think he was a massive fan of Bullseye.
"Come on, lets 'ave a look at what you could've won!" Classic!
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what difference does it make? (Score:0)
BTW, he still looks fabulous.
Matching Adidas... (Score:2, Funny)
I can imagine him wearing white Adidas with blue stripes matching that cap.
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Mortal after all... (Score:2, Insightful)
Personally, I find Moz to be more intriguing in these later years. It is hard enough to age gracefully, but how much harder when you personify youth and beauty? Now is the time in a career when you find out what an artist is made of. When I listen to Quarry, I hear a man whose blood still boils, who is still vital and whose voice is at its most compelling. Beauty fades, but genius is eternal.
He is still the most glamorus man on the planet, in the truest sense of the word!
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On English soil (Score:1)
A few days later I met Aled, the sound engineer behind Aziz Ibrahim’s album “Longsight to Lahore”, produced a few years back in Manchester I think, which included collaborators Paul Wellar, and Mike Joyce and Andy Rourke.
I did get to see the Roman baths, with its inscriptions in a font like Morrissey uses, and went on a hilarious guided walk ‘Bizarre Bath’ that I’d recommend. I also came across a bargain book called “The Power of the Pendulum” which mentions Dr Raudive, who released that record of dead people from which Morrissey borrowed. Since the cricket rumour, I liked the thought of sharing the same land-mass as Moz for a few days, and it’s some evidence for the 7 degrees of separation theory. I hope he enjoys the Northern grey skies and familiar folk, with his distinguished look, paying no heed to begrudging media pests. There may be ‘a place for everyone in The Sun who has the will to chase one’ but unfortunately there seems to be a place even for people who don’t as well!
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Viva El Moz (Score:0)
And watching this genius at work was a pleasure to behold and a stark reminder of just how bland and unimaginative the music industry has become..."
Tsc... (Score:0)
And, Shakespeare to the rescue! (Score:1, Interesting)
"I never saw that you did painting need,
And therefore to your fair no painting set;
I found, or thought I found, you did exceed
The barren tender of a poet's debt:
And therefore have I slept in your report,
That you yourself, being extant, well might show
How far a modern quill doth come too short,
Speaking of worth, what worth in you doth grow.
This silence for my sin you did impute,
Which shall be most my glory being dumb;
For I impair not beauty being mute,
When others would give life, and bring a tomb.
There lives more life in one of your fair eyes
Than both your poets can in praise devise."
Also I wonder if Morrissey was inspired for the opening lines of “Shoplifters..” by a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning that starts “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” Dunno if she was a kleptomaniac or not though!
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You are the most beautiful creature on earth X (Score:0)
You are beautiful Morrissey and you know how.
That is not YOU believe me, I'm sure you know anyway; but you are just sublime, in case you needed reminding.
Oh this wicked world. The Camera does lie more than you would ever know.
LLLOVE FOREVER
Worthless I know, but sincerely meant nonetheless.
Honest X
The Sun knows nothing about true Beauty. (Score:2, Insightful)
The vegetarian diet does him good. He looks healthy.
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Moz in Manchester (Score:0)
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now... (Score:0)
jesus christ! (Score:0)
the old bean (Score:1)
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Handsome devil (Score:1)
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder (Score:0)
I've seen his.
I LOVE YOU MORRISSEY
FOREVERMORE X
What's that??? (Score:0)
Take a look at this picture again...
What did he say again? (Score:0)
Ha!
(LOVE YOU MOZZER)
the times the are a ... (Score:0)
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Come On! (Score:1)
I don't understand the fascination with all the fans here that have a hard time with Morrissey growing old. Last time I checked we all are growing old. That’s life, deal with it. I wonder how well most of you are going to look when you reach Morrissey's age?
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Um... guys, guys (Score:1)
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Moz engaged?? (Score:0)
Re:distressed (Score:0)
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Re:distressed (Score:0)
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