Seagram / PolyGram merger articles
More on the Seagram / PolyGram
merger and imminent downsizing.
Thanks to Sueadhead
and Derick Greene
for news of the article that appeared in the Feb. 4th L.A.
Times Business section, "Seagram's Losses, Indies'
Gains?" Scans (page 1, page 2) of the
article provided by Derick. Morrissey and Paula Abdul
are mentioned specifically (with photos) as artists with
uncertain futures at Seagram.
A similar article (with small photo) also appeared in the Feb.
4 New York Times, according to Adrien.
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Morrissey video on 120 Minutes
We didn't get the video we requested in primetime, but thanks to everyone who put in the effort to vote and get the word out.
Several people noticed that on the MTV 120 Minutes site Morrissey is among the list of "new debut videos": 120 minutes will air Sunday 2/07 at 12:00 a.m. (EST)!!!
New debut videos from:
RL BURNSIDE
FUN LOVIN' CRIMINALS
IMPERIAL TEEN
BJORK
MORRISSEY
SPARKLEHORSE
Don't miss 120 minutes this Sunday 02/07 at midnight, 11 central!! According to kakarot on the discussion board, this video will be "Everyday Is Like Sunday". Not sure why this is classified as a 'new debut'.
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Important body parts
From Axel:
Today (5th Feb.)
the Swedish newspaper DN published a list named "Body
parts that have changed the world of music"
(translation). Elvis's hips won, followed by Keith
Richards's lips. 13th, and last, place was Morrissey's
brain. Quite a funny list.
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Smiths, Morrissey in Uncut magazine (Feb.)
Thanks to Glamlisp for the
following:
Just read
a mention of Smiths & Morrissey in February '99 issue of
Uncut magazine. The cover story is about New Order.
After that they have 2 related articles, The 20 Best
Manchester Albums & Mancunian Candidates.
The first article has 2 of The Smiths' albums The Queen Is
Dead & The Smiths listed as #5 & #8 respectively.
The complete list is as follows:
THE 20 BEST
MANCHESTER ALBUMS
1-- JOY DIVISION---Closer.
2-- THE STONE ROSES---The Stone Roses.
3-- JOY DIVISION--- Unknown Pleasures.
4-- NEW ORDER--- Technique.
5-- THE SMITHS--- The Queen Is Dead.
6-- MAGAZINE--- Secondhand Daylight.
7-- OASIS--- Definitely Maybe.
8-- THE SMITHS--- The Smiths.
9-- NEW ORDER--- Power, Corruption & Lies.
10--THE CHAMELEONS--- What Does Anything Mean? Basically.
11-- ELECTRONIC--- Electronic.
12-- THE BUZZCOCKS--- Love Bites.
13-- THE FALL--- Grotesque (After The Gramme).
14-- NEW ORDER--- Low-Life.
15-- THE DURUTTI COLUMN--- LC.
16-- HAPPY MONDAYS--- Bummed.
17-- A CERTAIN RATIO--- To Each . . .
18-- THE CHARLATANS--- Tellin' Stories.
19-- MONACO--- Music For Pleasure.
20-- BLACK GRAPE--- It's Great When You're Straight, Yeah.
The details under the
2 Smiths' Albums are:
THE SMITHS
The Queen Is Dead
Recording of The Smiths' third album was beset by internal
conflicts and Johnny Marr's near collapse. Nevertheless, The
Queen Is Dead was the band's most complete statement yet and
remains their most lauded. It balanced humour with
brutality, repression with awakening, and offered glimpses
of a mythical, rose-tinted "Dear Old Blighty"
while remaining firmly rooted in contemporary England. One
of the seminal releases of the Eighties.
Quintessentially ironic burst of jokingly(?) suicidal,
ambiguous, asexual self-mockery: "There Is A Light That
Never Goes Out"
THE SMITHS
The Smiths
The album that announced Morrissey and Marr as a song-
writing duo to rival Jagger and Richards and Lennon and
McCartney. With Marr's chimings at their most ebullient,
Morrissey's unique worldview unleashed 10 masterful songs
dealing in reclusiveness, infanticide, Moors murders,
problematic sexual urges and illness with a baneful
romanticism steeped in kitchen sink dramas and a difficult
childhood.
Overnight the role of misfit and malcontent was suddenly
unutterably fashionable and desirable Magical misery tour:
"Reel Around The Fountain" - a dark tale of
violent forbidden love.
The second article
is:
MANCUNIAN
CANDIDATES
Twenty mad-fer-it, bangin' reasons without which Manchester
would not exist.
IAN CURTIS.
NOEL & LIAM GALLAGHER.
MORRISSEY.
IAN BROWN.
SHAUN RYDER / BEZ.
BERNARD SUMNER.
JOHNNY MARR.
PETER HOOK.
HOWARD DEVOTO.
PETE SHELLEY.
MARK E SMITH.
JOHN SQUIRE.
MARTIN HANNET.
ANTHONY H WILSON.
TIM BOOTH.
GODLEY & CREME.
GERALD (A GUY CALLED. . .)
SIMON TOPPING (A CERTAIN RATIO).
GRAHAM MASSEY (808 STATE).
STELLA (OF INTASTELLA) / WORLD OF TWIST.
About Morrissey they
wrote:
MORRISSEY
Job: persecuted sometime yodeller
A TRUE one-off, Dublin-born Morrissey endured a difficult
baptism in Manchester at the hands of Rusholme ruffians,
penning sulky missives about the New York Dolls to the music
press. Initially a reviled figure, as leader of The Smiths
Morrissey's wonderful Mancunian brogue, studied Englishness
and difficult lyrics earned the adulation of a generation.
Following the band's breakup, Mozzer's subsequent patchy
solo career has led to American success, boxers, skinheads,
lawsuits, and a not entirely unreasonable persecution
complex.
Current whereabouts: Altrincham, after paying ex-Smiths
drummer Mike Joyce a million pounds.
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