Day 1591 - Morrissey and Bowie

January 21, 2016, 9:39 am

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It has now been 11 days since David Bowie departed the world. It has been reported that he has been cremated in New York, with no family or friends present. Bowie's new album, Black Star, has become a posthumous Number 1 in both the US and UK, but there is no posthumous Number 1 single; with the top performing song in the UK being Heroes, which is at Number 12.


11 YEAR OLD BOY SCOUT, DAVID BOWIE (LEFT) PICTURED ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT (1958) MAKING HIS FIRST PUBLIC PERFORMANCE - HE COVERED LONNIE DONEGAN'SGAMBLIN' MAN ANDPUTTIN' ON THE STYLE.

Two years ago, I wrote a blog entry comparing the careers of Morrissey and Bowie at the same ages, and have decided to update the piece, and go into much greater detail; including the number of shows performed by each artist. Before researching this piece, I had no idea that either Bowie or Morrissey had played anywhere near the number of shows that they have. In his 44th year, Bowie played an incredible 108 shows.

One of the most interesting things that I have come to realise, is that taking a hiatus really seems to work wonders for a career. Morrissey took a break after the release of Maladjusted, and subsequently came back far stronger; and it could be argued was far more relevant in his mid forties than Bowie was at a similar age. Likewise, after Bowie's heart surgery, he released no material for nine and a half years, and when he finally released a new album at the age of 66, it shot to Number 1.

Death enhances a career even further, with Bowie currently sat at Number 1 in both the US and UK album charts, and the song Lazarus this week becoming Bowie's first Top 40 US hit since the age of 40 (over 28 years ago).


NEW YORK 1992 - PHOTO BY LINDER STERLING

AGE 23 - Bowie releases his third studio album, The Man Who Sold the World on the Mercury record label (Didn't chart 1970). He had previously released the albums, David Bowie at the age of 20 on the Deram label (Didn't chart 1967), and Space Oddity at the age of 22 on the Phillips label (Didn't chart 1969). He plays 40 shows with a variety of line ups and bands

              -  Morrissey plays 9 shows with The Smiths and signs to Rough Trade
           

AGE 24 - Bowie signs to RCA , and has his first album chart success with his fourth studio album, Hunky Dory (Number 3 UK 1971). He plays 17 shows

               - Morrissey releases his first album with The Smiths entitled, The Smiths (Number 2 UK 1984). He plays 77 shows with The Smiths

AGE 25 - Bowie releases his fifth studio album,  Ziggy Stardust (Number 5 UK 1972), which many people see as his legacy. He plays 91 shows and guests at a Mott the Hoople show

               - Morrissey, with The Smiths, release the compilation album, Hatful of Hollow (Number 7 UK 1984), and his second studio album, Meat is Murder (Number 1 UK 1985); which makes him one of the most famous advocates of vegetarianism. He plays 50 shows with The Smiths


  THE STORY OF ZIGGY STARDUST




THE SMITHS MAKING MEAT IS MURDER

AGE 26 - Bowie releases his sixth studio album, Aladdin Sane (Number 1 UK 1973) & cover album, Pin Ups (No.1 UK 1973). He plays 87 shows

               - Morrissey records The Queen is Dead album with The Smiths but it's release is delayed. He plays 25 shows with The Smiths

AGE 27 - Bowie releases his eighth studio album, Diamond Dogs (Number 1 UK 1974 ) and David Live (Number 2 UK 1974). He plays 73 shows

              - Morrissey, with The Smiths, releases his third studio album, The Queen is Dead (Number 2 UK 1986), and the compilation album, The World Won't Listen (Number 2 UK 1987). He plays 41 shows with The Smiths

AGE 28 - Bowie releases his ninth studio album, Young Americans (Number 2 UK 1975). He films The Man Who Fell To Earth. He has a Number 1 single in the US with, Fame, co-written by John Lennon, and a Number 1 in the UK with a re-release of Space Oddity. He plays no shows but plays saxophone in an all star band at Peter Sellers 50th birthday party

              - Morrissey, with The Smiths, releases his fourth studio album, Strangeways Here We Come (Number 2 UK 1987 - which goes Gold), and The Smiths split. He signs to EMI and releases his fifth studio album, Viva Hate (Number 1 UK 1988) on the HMV label. He plays no shows

BOWIE, AGE 28 (1975) IN THE FILM, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH

AGE 29 - Bowie releases his tenth studio album, Station to Station (Number 5 UK 1976). He plays 63 shows
              - Morrissey releases two singles, The Last of the Famous International Playboys (Number 6 UK 1989) and Interesting Drug (Number 9 UK 1989) 

                (The live Smiths' album, Rank, is released (Number 2 UK 1988). He plays 1 show

AGE 30 - Bowie releases his eleventh studio album, Low (Number 2 UK 1977), the album, The Idiot (with Iggy Pop - Number 30 UK 1977  and his twelfth studio album, "Heroes" (Number 3 UK 1977). He plays 30 shows as a musician and backing singer for Iggy Pop. He appears on Bing Crosby's Christmas Special.

               - Morrissey releases the single Ouija Board, Ouija Board (Number 18 UK 1989). He plays no shows


MORRISSEY AGE 30 - FROM THE OUIJA BOARD, OUIJA BOARD VIDEO

AGE 31 - Bowie releases the live album, Stage (Number 5 UK 1978). He films Just a Gigolo with Marlene Dietrich. He plays 78 shows
               - Morrissey releases the compilation album, Bona Drag (Number 9 UK 1990) and his sixth studio album, Kill Uncle (Number 8 UK 1991). He plays 10 shows

AGE 32 - Bowie releases his thirteenth studio album, Lodger  (Number 4 UK 1979). He plays no shows

              - Morrissey plays 56 shows and a 44 year old Bowie duets with him in LA, singing Marc Bolan's Cosmic Dancer


AGE 32 AND 44 RESPECTIVELY

AGE 33 - Bowie releases his fourteenth studio album, Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (Number 1 UK 1980), and has a Number 1 UK single with, Ashes to Ashes. He appearson stage; including a Broadway run, as The Elephant Man. He plays no shows

              - Morrissey releases his seventh studio album, Your Arsenal (Number 4 UK 1992) and the live album, Beethoven Was Deaf (Number 13 UK 1993). On the back of his success, the WEA record label release a Smiths greatest hits album, Best... 1(Number 1 UK 1992). He plays 56 shows


BOWIE - AGE 33 IN NEW YORK WHERE HE PLAYED ELEPHANT MAN

AGE 34 - Bowie releases the single Under Pressure with Queen (Number 1 UK 1981) and records Cat People (Number 26 UK 1982). He appears in a BBC adaptation of the play, Baal. He plays no shows

                - Morrissey releases his eighth studio album, Vauxhall and I on the Parlophone label (Number 1 UK 1994). He plays no shows

AGE 35 - Bowie releases the Baal EP (Number 29 UK 1982), his final recording for RCA. He films Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence and introduces The Snowman. He plays no shows
               - Morrissey releases the singles Interlude (with Siouxsie Sioux) (Number 25 UK 1994) and Boxers  (Number 23 UK 1995). He plays 18 shows

AGE 36 - Bowie signs to the EMI record label and releases his fifteenth studio album, Let's Dance (Number 1 UK 1983), which becomes his biggest commercial success, and turns him into a global superstar. He plays 97 shows

- Morrissey leaves EMI and joins Bowie's former label, RCA. He releases his ninth studio album, Southpaw Grammar (Number 4 UK 1995). Morrissey plays 13 shows, including 9 as support for 48 year old Bowie, but being a support act is NOT for Morrissey, and he leaves the tour early and subsequently leaves RCA


AGE 37 - Bowie releases his sixteenth studio album, Tonight (Number 1 UK 1984). He records a spoken message for the b-side of Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas. He makes a short film, Jazzin' For Blue Jean. He plays 1 show
               - Morrissey signs to the Island record label and records the album Maladjusted. He plays no shows

AGE 38 - Bowie releases the singles, This is Not America (with the Pat Metheny Group) (Number 14 UK 1985) and Dancing in the Street (with Mick Jagger) (Number 1 UK 1985). He films Labyrinth and Absolute Beginners. He plays 1 show - Live Aid, guests at 2 Tina Turner shows, and plays an impromptu set in New York's China Club
               - Morrissey releases his tenth studio album, Maladjusted (Number 8 UK 1997). He plays 54 shows

AGE 39 - Bowie releases three singles from three different films: Absolute Beginners (Number 2 UK 1986), Underground (Number 21 UK 1986) and When the Wind Blows (Number 44 UK). He plays no shows but performs Dancing in the Street with Mick Jagger at the Prince's Trust Concert
              - Morrissey leaves Island records and relocates to LA. He plays no shows

AGE 40 - Bowie releases his seventeenth studio album, Never Let Me Down (Number 6 UK 1987). Warhol Superstar, Joe Dallesandro features in the video for Never Let Me Down (Number 34 UK Number 27 US 1987), which becomes Bowie's last single to reach the US Top 40 (until the posthumous Lazarus). He plays the part of Pontius Pilate in Martin Scorsese's, The Last Temptation of Christ. He plays 96 shows
              - Morrissey plays 75 shows and covers Bowie's Drive-In Saturday in New York (2002)


BOWIE AGE 40 - PLAYING PONTIUS PILATE IN THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST 1987

MORRISSEY AGE 40 - ELVIS LIKE IN VEGAS 1999

AGE 41 - Bowie performs in one show; playing one song, with La La La Human Steps at London's Dominion theatre
               - Morrissey spends time in LA. He plays no shows

AGE 42 - Bowie (as Tin Machine) releases his eighteenth studio album, Tin Machine (Number 3 UK 1989) and delivers Berklee College's Commencement Address. He plays 13 shows with Tin Machine
              - Morrissey continues his hiatus in LA and writes new songs. He plays no shows



AGE 43 - Bowie parts company with EMI. He takes a break from Tin Machine and plays 108 solo shows - stating this will be the last time he will play his old songs
               - Morrissey plays 47 shows, showcasing new songs



"SO, I EVENTUALLY LEFT THE TOUR.... AND HE NEVER SPOKE TO ME AGAIN.YOU HAVE TO WORSHIP AT THE TEMPLE OF DAVID WHEN YOU BECOME INVOLVED. HE WAS A FASCINATING ARTIST IN 1970, 71, 72... BUT NOT NOW" - MORRISSEY IN 2002 (AGE 43) TALKING ABOUT A 55 YEAR OLD BOWIE; WHO HAD JUST RELEASED THE ALBUM, HEATHEN

AGE 44 - Bowie signs to the London record label and re-forms Tin Machine to release his nineteenth studio album Tin Machine II  (Number 23 UK 1991). He duets with a 32 year old Morrissey in LA and plays 58 shows with Tin Machine
 - Morrissey signs to the Attack record label, and releases his eleventh studio album, You Are The Quarry (Number 2 UK 2004), and all four singles from the album reach the UK Top 10, including Irish Blood, English Heart (Number 3 UK 2004). He plays 12 shows





FABIAN FORTE IN THE FILM 'A BULLET FOR PRETTY BOY' - ALLEGED ON FTM TO BE THE INSPIRATION FOR THE YOU ARE THE QUARRY COVER

AGE 45 - Bowie releases the live Tin Machine album, Oy Vey, Baby (Didn't chart 1992). He plays the role of Agent Phillip Jeffries in Twin Peaks. He plays 13 shows with Tin Machine and plays at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert (including a duet with Annie Lennox)
               - Morrissey releases the live album, Live At Earls Court (Number 18 UK 2005). He is instrumental in reuniting the New York Dolls. He plays 54 shows and curates the Meltdown Festival at London's Royal Festival Hall (2005)



AGE 46 - Bowie (no longer with Tin Machine) signs to the Arista record label (part of BMG) and releases his twentieth studio album, Black Tie White Noise (Number 1 UK 1993); which includes a cover of Morrissey's I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday,  and releases his twenty-first studio album, The Buddha of Suburbia (Number 87 UK 1993). He has his first Uk Top 10 single for seven years with, Jump They Say (Number 9 UK 1993). He plays no shows
               - Morrissey releases his twelfth studio album, Ringleader of the Tormentors (Number 1 UK 2006) and all four single releases from the album reach the Top 20 in the UK, including a Number 3 with You Have Killed Me. He plays 38 shows


BOWIE AGE 46 - A NUMBER 35 UK SINGLE

MORRISSEY AGE 46 - A NUMBER 3 UK SINGLE

AGE 47 -  Bowie spends time in the studio with Brian Eno writing songs for the album, Outside. He plays no shows
               - Morrissey plays 71 shows



AGE 48 - Bowie signs to Virgin records releases his twenty-second studio album, Outside (Number 8 UK 1995). He plays 43 shows, with a 36 year old Morrissey supporting for 9
              - Morrissey plays 69 shows



AGE 49 - Bowie is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with Madonna accepting the award on his behalf. He plays the role of Andy Warhol in the film, Basquiat, which also features his song, A Small Plot of Land. He plays 56 shows
               - Morrissey releases his thirteenth studio album, Years of Refusal on the Decca label (Number 3 UK 2009). He plays 46 shows



AGE 50 - Bowie releases his twenty-third studio album, Earthling (Number 6 UK 1997). He issues 'Bowie Bonds' - selling his back catalogue for a 10 year period for $55million. He sings on Lou Reed's, Perfect Day single for the BBC's Children In Need (Number 1 UK 1997). He plays 86 shows
              - Morrissey releases the b-sides album, Swords (Number 55 UK 2009) on the Polydor label. He plays 54 shows

AGE 51 - Bowie plays no shows but performs three songs at Howard Stern's birthday show
               - Morrissey denies having any connection with the website, MorrisseysWorld. He plays no shows



AGE 52 - Bowie releases his twenty-fourth studio album, 'Hours...' (Number 5 UK 1999) on the Virgin label. The album includes the song, What's Really Happening?, written by a competition winner; who then got to sing backing vocals along with his friend. It was the first complete album by a major artist to be available as a download from the internet. He plays 9 shows and also appears at the Brit Awards with Placebo to sing 20th Century Boy. He performs the song again with Placebo in New York along with their song, Without You, I'm Nothing.
              - Morrissey denies twice more having any connection to MorrisseysWorld. He plays 73 shows



AGE 53 - Bowie plays 4 shows and also sings Wild is The Wind and Life on Mars at the Yahoo Internet Awards in New York (2000)
              - Morrissey issues a statement on TTY saying that Bowie had refused him permission to use a photo of them both on the cover of the re-issue of Last of the International Playboys. He plays 45 shows

AGE 54 - Bowie plays no shows but sings, Heroes and Silly Boy Blue at the Tibet House Benefit Concert - and also joins in with Patti Smith & others on Smith's People Got The Power. He also performs a cover of Simon & Garfunkel's, America and 'Heroes' at the Concert for New York City (2001)
               - Morrissey releases his Autobiography as a Penguin Classic and signs to the Harvest record label. He states on TTY about Bowie, "I know I've criticized David in the past, but it's all been snotnosed junior high ribbing on my part. I think he knows that." He records the album, World Peace Is None of Your Business. He plays 10 shows including the Nobel Peace Prize Concert



AGE 55 - Bowie releases his twenty-fifth studio album, Heathen (Number 5 UK 2002) on the Columbia record label. He records a duet, Saviour with Kristeen Young. He plays 37 shows, including Live by Request, and curates the Meltdown Festival at London's Royal Festival Hall (2002); in which he performs a cover of the Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat with the Dandy Warhols. He covers Elvis Presley's One Night on the 25th anniversary of Presley's death. He also performs I Would Be Your Slave and Space Oddity at the Tibet House Benefit Concert (2002).
              - Morrissey releases his fourteenth studio album, World Peace is None of Your Business (Number 2 UK 2014). He plays 51 shows



AGE 56 - Bowie releases his twenty-sixth studio album, Reality (Number 3 UK 2003). He plays 38 shows
               - Morrissey releases his debut novel, List of the Lost. (Number 3 UK Paperback Fiction 2015). He plays 58 shows (so far)


MORRISSEY FANS IN PARIS READING LIST OF THE LOST - OCTOBER 2015




AGE 57 - Bowie plays 76 shows but has to cancel further shows after undergoing emergency angioplasty.
              - Morrissey turns 57 on May 22nd 2016

AGE 58 - Bowie records the song, (She Can) Do That for the film, Stealth. He plays no shows but performs Life on Mars, Five Years and Wake Up with Arcade Fire at Fashion Rocks and Queen Bitch  and Wake Up with them again at a concert in Central Park

AGE 59 - Bowie plays the part of Nikola Tesla in the film, The Prestige. He plays no shows, but performs Pink Floyd's Arnold Layne and Comfortably Numb with David Gilmour and appears in Ricky Gervais', Extras, singing a song about him.

AGE 60-62 - Bowie releases nothing and plays no shows

AGE 63 - 65 - Bowie records the album, The Next Day. He plays no shows

AGE 66 - Bowie releases his twenty-seventh studio album, The Next Day (Number 1 UK 2013). The single, Where Are We Now? (Number 6 UK 2013) becomes his first Top 10 hit for 20 years. He plays no shows



AGE 67 - Bowie records the album, Black Star and releases the single, Sue (Or In A Season of Crime) (Number 81 UK 2014). He plays no shows

AGE 68 - Bowie continues recording the album, Black Star and releases the singles, Black Star and Lazarus. He plays no shows


AGE 69 - Bowie releases his twenty-eighth studio album, Black Star on his birthday and dies two days later



POSTHUMOUS - Bowie's album, Black Star reaches Number 1 in both the UK and US. Lazarus becomes his first US Top 40 single since 1987

Morrissey has not been heard of since his final concert in Las Vegas on January 2nd. I would imagine that Bowie's death has hit Morrissey very hard; not least because he never got the chance to properly put things right between the two of them.

It will be fascinating to see where Morrissey takes his career next.


MORRISSEY ON STAGE IN LAS VEGAS JANUARY 2016

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Day 1596 - Guam back to Canning

January 26, 2016, 11:40 am

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On Day 1582 of FTM (January 12th) I posted a comment that had been left by 'Not Astra's Derrière'. I declared that the style of writing was identical to Astra's, and that therefore, 'Not Bot' was indeed Astra. A few hours later, 'Not Bot' posted the following in reply:

I am not Astra
I never was

A good parody in hand is worth two in the bush
A good parody in the bush, is worth at least two sharp raps on the derriere
A good two sharp raps on the derriere, now I’d say we’re all really starting to get somewhere

But as I’ve already bid you all goodbye... 

We All Lose

I responded by saying that we must have been duped, to which 'Not Bot' replied:

I am not in the business of duping. You can always look to me for the permanence of smoke and stars.

Still mainline in sway, sideline in louche

I'm just the shadow of the sweetest, darkest shadow

This left me none the wiser but, for now at least, I am still presuming that 'Not Bot'is indeed a Morrissey pessoa. If I am right, then it shows that Morrissey wasn't sat rocking in a darkened room at the news of David Bowie's death, and this has been further endorsed by both the release of a TTY statement listing new shows in April, and a photo of Moz out and about in Beverly Hills. It does make me wonder if Morrissey did his mourning for the death of David Bowie in 1995.



Despite 'Not Bot' stating that she had, "already bid you all goodbye", she returned to The Loveless yesterday at 3.26am (7.26pm Sunday in LA) for the first time since January 8th, to tweet, "Like origami, I unfold." We look forward to the unfolding.

The TTY statement has indicated that Morrissey will play countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Taiwan and Guam... where the bloody hell is Guam? *Googles it* It's an island in the middle of nowhere. I bet Bowie never played Guam!

Morrissey's last concert in Singapore was in May 2012 at Fort Canning. The concert was all lined up to be the first one where Morrissey would accept a blue rose, from BRS member, Manc Lad. Manc Lad had gone half way across the world to carry out his mission, but unfortunately he got pissed at the concert, and the inevitable happened. As reported on Day 238 of FTM, Manc Lad tweeted after the concert in Fort Canning to say, "I think rose trampled to death in pit, oh my me bad. So sorry his face at the end when only passed a piece of paper, obvious he was waiting, damn I'm so stupid."

The look on Morrissey's face that Manc Lad was referring to, can be seen on the video below at 3 mins 45, where Moz shrugs his shoulders and rolls his eyes, and again at 4 mins 13 where Morrissey again shrugs his shoulders at Manc Lad. I wonder if Manc Lad will attempt his quest again this time around.



All else remains quiet in The Loveless, with very few BRS members currently popping in. It would seem that Kerry the Cocktail and MerryAnne are spending all of their time in the toilets with Mundane Glamour, who they are still utterly convinced is Morrissey. My latest thought is that Mundane Glamour could be Kevin Banjaxer Walter Ego Mar(r)inan, after all, we haven't heard from him for ages. Two years ago he was supposedly going to be part of MorrisseysWorld.Com, but that never came to fruition. Perhaps the BRS tumblr site was set up instead.


The only other thing to mention, is that as part of the TTY statement about the new tour, a Sam Esty Rayner photomontage was included, with the actors from Maverick/members of the Morrissey band labelled as, The Dirty Half Dozen. Coincidentally, HeatherCat had mentioned the Dirty Dozen on FTM a few weeks ago.

THE DIRTY HALF DOZEN

THE LOVELESS CHART (Not broadcast)

1. THERE IS A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT/PANIC (LIVE ON EUROTUBE 1986) - THE SMITHS (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdPlNnId-mQ

2. ADORE (LIVE ON JIMMY KIMMEL 2016) - SAVAGES (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLU0erPuQN0

3. JACK THE RIPPER (LIVE IN LAS VEGAS 2016) - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkO-FomlspE&feature=youtu.be

4. LAST NIGHT I DREAMT THAT SOMEBODY LOVED ME (LIVE IN SINGAPORE 2012) - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwJjeUMvbww&feature=youtu.be



5. BLACK STAR - ELVIS PRESLEY (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i5r9exSSvY&feature=youtu.be

6. GANGLORD (LIVE IN CHILE 2015) - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XXunpmoluo

7. T.I.W.Y.G (LIVE IN PARIS 2015) - SAVAGES (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2COfYODn2Jk

8. SHAKESPEARE'S SISTER (LIVE AT GLASTONBURY 2004) - MORRISSEY (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xweZrroR3dE




9. YOU'LL BE GONE (LIVE IN LONDON 2015) - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cToLKtHv9ng&feature=youtu.be



10. DEATH OF A DISCO DANCER (LIVE IN 2009) - MORRISSEY (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnVIkQykdXU&feature=youtu.be

11. OBOE CONCERTO (LIVE IN CALIFORNIA 2015) - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgh1TUbUPSI&feature=youtu.be

12. SLOWING DOWN THE WORLD (LIVE IN PARIS 2015) - SAVAGES (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_gSKq93y3k&feature=youtu.be

13. THERE IS A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT (LIVE IN LIVERPOOL 1986) - THE SMITHS (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k-l0dPOWZI&feature=youtu.be



14. PORT OF AMSTERDAM - DAVID BOWIE (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_LdJX-xga8

15. ONE NIGHT (LIVE IN SEATTLE 2002) - DAVID BOWIE (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N77EXhYYQ8M&feature=youtu.be



16. FLAMING STAR - ELVIS PRESLEY (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z0eling--A&feature=youtu.be

17. FIRST OF THE GANG TO DIE (LIVE ON THE LATE LATE SHOW 2004) - MORRISSEY (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT3XA0eogdk&feature=youtu.be

18. ROY'S KEEN (LIVE ON THE JACK DOCHERTY SHOW 1997) - MORRISSEY (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXk2o6avJAY

19. INTERNATIONAL PLAYGIRL - MEXRRISSEY (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7v8QW4xW1M&feature=youtu.be

20. MOTORHEAD - MOTORHEAD (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4XKG1Y5sM8

21. HERE I GO AGAIN - TWIGGY (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSK9RG97SaY

Day 1603 - No one knows a thing

February 2, 2016, 5:36 am

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The Loveless Go-Go Bar is a shadow of its former self. There is no music, no excitement, no... life! I have popped my head in through the door on a daily basis this past week, but apart from MerryAnne propped at the bar with a bucket of gin, and comrade herpes scribbling away at his latest Morrissey illuminati theory, there has been very little to observe.


THE EMPTY LOVELESS BAR

Mademoiselle Fifi made one very fleeting visit on Thursday afternoon to thank Lizzy for playing Charles Aznavour's, What Makes a Man, and Mademoiselle Not Bot also made a couple of visits on Thursday, posting the following:

"PHYSICALITY
Lapsed morality
No one knows a thing"

"Narcissistic epidemic. Culture is cumulative. Art can hide within darkness. And it does"

"Flesh? Or spirit? I will only ever give one of myself. Never, ever both"

"Tell me to stop, and I'll start. Tell me to don't. You won't. And then I will.
Tell me to do, and I shan't. Tell me to stay and then I never will"

"With the beautiful melancholy that only the knowing possess. My face full of resignation and a mouth full of pie"

"I looked at this world once and already, I knew more than I ever should"

"Sweet smiles hiding shadows of infinite depth. Wisdom saves no one"

"Salvage anything from my shipwrecked heart"

"Someone said to me earlier this week, life is not all vodka and roses. I most certainly beg to differ"

Mademoiselle Not Bot also made a couple of very brief appearances on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, posting one tweet and re-tweeting some pictures. On Saturday she tweeted:

"L'ART POUR L'ART"








And that's it!

Day 1612 - Go to waste in The Wrong Arms

February 11, 2016, 4:12 am

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It was December 8th that Our Mozzer was last on Twitter, and in the two months since, the place has been dull, dull, dull. And just as I had made the decision to close my account and walk away for good, HE RETURNS! *Waves palm leaves and sings Trouble loves Me*

THE MESSIAH 


THE MOZZIAH


THE MESSER

I can't say that Our Mozzer has returned to The Loveless, because we had to give up the lease on the extravagant Loveless Go-Go bar due to poor attendance - what was Astra ever thinking of? In it's place we are now renting a much smaller backstreet bar called The Wrong Arms; where members can go to waste at their leisure, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks of the year. The good news is, The Wrong Arms has a jukebox.



Our Mozzer's return yesterday lasted a total of twelve minutes, from 7.34pm (11.34am LA time - which is where Morrissey has recently been photographed) to 7.46pm. Here are his words of wisdom:

"How should one announce a return? A triumphant squeal? Kicking down the door? Punching a nun in the face? This return is akin to a burp"

In reply to Marcus describing OM as the "salt on my chips": "Too much salt is unhealthy. You'll be dead within a week. Athough (sic) there really is no point to life so..."

"I have returned to save you real world tedium. Such as moaning over chipped china, rain on your washing, genocide..."(Ed - OM's sense of humour is firmly intact.)

In response to Marcus posting an article about a man who eats whole raw potatoes to take him out of the mood for sex: "That explains it. All of my unrequited loves must have been eating potatoes. Also explains the lack of chips as a child."

In response to a trending twitter hashtag, WeMissYouLiam (which was apparently started due to a member of 1D not having posted a tweet for a couple of days... what the fuck is going on in this world?!): "Does Noel know Liam has popped his cloggs? Of course he does because Noel knows you know."



NOEL KNOWS YOU KNOW



NOEL AT THE 2014 BRITS IN HIS BLUE ROSE - HE REALLY DOES KNOW, YOU KNOW

The only other possible sighting of Our Mozzer, is an anonymous comment, also posted yesterday, on The World of Moz blog. I obviously don't know if Morrissey left the comment, but it certainly bears his hallmark, and even if it isn't him, it's a beautiful piece of writing. This could be the written equivalent of finding a Banksy. Here is the comment:

A homeless bag-hag on all fours forlornly grunts, crawling past disordered storefronts. Scarves skirt across drudging dust as scarred hands scrape at scraps of fragrant fermenting fruit. A garbled gaze grazes the crowd as she stares at everyone and no one in a cat-eyed-craze. Vacant eyes mirror vagrant sighs whilst steel-lipped grins articulate unsaid whims. Petticoats hide barely enough to feed three, but do you wear a flask on your gartered leg for me? Under a stingy King’s sting, the petty-coated police state snags the bag-hag pinching plums to feed two broken sons. Inbred royalty pays redundant reverence to imbedded imperialist idiocy; deference to village pillages made by badly brainwashed battle-men in the depraved name of ‘brave’ defense. Is theft for the rich not theft? The world knowingly nods – or does it?


Despite my last blog article being on the front page for nine days, it received a pitiful amount of hits, and just four BRS members bothered to leave a comment - FTM is in the gutter, face down, looking at the leaves, twigs, and small pieces of gravel as they are washed by the rain towards the drain; a drain which is blocked and overflowing due to the local council not having the resources or manpower to clear it... but wait, is that the sun I see?

Day 1614 - Morrissey reigns Supreme

February 13, 2016, 6:32 am

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Posters of Morrissey wearing a t-shirt manufactured by the clothing company Supreme have started to appear on the streets of cities throughout the world; which in turn has led to the media, Morrissey fans, and Supreme fans speculating that Morrissey may be about to be officially named as the person spearheading Supreme's new Spring/Summer 2016 Collection. As far as I am aware, there has been no such speculation from Diana Ross.










This speculation is of course NOT news or indeed a surprise to the deluded dozen or so members of Morrissey's Blue Rose Society, who were told by Our Mozzer LAST SEPTEMBER to look out for a photo of him taken by Terry Richardson. Actually, Our Mozzer wasn't quite that blatant with the information as he chatted in the BRS chatroom with Kerry, Jesse, MerryAnne, Chuck and Jaz on that day in September 2015, what he actually said to them, was to look out for a photo of him taken by a photographer with the initials TR, and that the photographer's name was similar to Kerry's - Kerry is Kerry Richards, or at least was, Kerry is now Kerry Messenger after some poor soul called Dave got bullied into marriage.


DAVE AND KERRY

I wasn't in the MW chatroom on that September day; mainly because no one ever lets me know when Our Mozzer enters the chatroom, but if I had been there, then I would have blogged about Mozzer's mention of a forthcoming Terry Richardson photo - actually, I expect that is the reason why no one ever tips me off that M is in the chatroom, as they know I will end up repeating the conversations here on my blog, and some of them are very keen to keep the internet using 'Fake Morrissey' to themselves.

I only found out about the September chatroom chat, in early December, when Chuck aka Orange Mécanique eventually decided to write about 'Fake Moz' mentioning the 'forthcoming Terry Richardson photo' on her blog, The World of Moz. It is a shame that Chuck only wrote about the chatroom chat after Morrissey's website, True-To-You, had posted a photo of Moz wearing a Supreme shirt, if she had written about it before the photo had been published, it would have made it a HUGE story.


MORRISSEY SHOT BY SAM ESTY RAYNER

There has been no official word as yet that the photo of Morrissey on the Supreme posters was indeed taken by Terry Richardson, but members of the BRS are in NO DOUBT that this news will be forthcoming soon enough; although as Terry Richardson has been used by Supreme for previous campaigns involving the likes of Lou Reed and Neil Young, the announcement that Richardson took the photo of Moz won't exactly come as a massive surprise to anyone, which therefore means that, despite Our Mozzer leaking the news about the photo to the BRS back in September, NO ONE will take a blind bit of notice, and NOTHING will change. Would it have been different if that piece by Orangey Chuck had been posted before the TTY photo was published? We will never know, but I don't think those BRS members should worry too much about the outside world discovering their 'Fake Mozzer', after all, I have been writing this blog of mine for nearly four and a half years, and despite me listing hundreds of blatant signs given by Morrissey to prove that he actually is the 'Fake Mozzer' who uses the internet to interact with his fans, the world won't listen. They don't WANT to believe, they are sleeping.



LOU REED 2008 SUPREME CAMPAIGN


NEIL YOUNG 2015 SUPREME CAMPAIGN

Justin Bieber is a fan of Supreme, so perhaps he will be next.



*Goes off singing* Terry wants my photograph, Terry says our love will last forever, and he should know

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February 14, 2016, 11:08 am

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Yesterday I wrote that it would soon be revealed that Terry Richardson was indeed the photographer who had taken the photograph of Morrissey that is currently being used in Supreme's Spring/Summer 2016 campaign, and we haven't had to wait long to get the revelation; although it didn't exactly come in the manner any of us would have expected.

TERRY RICHARDSON - PICTURED HERE SHOOTING LADY GAGA FOR SUPREME IN 2010

There has been no, 'Supreme are very pleased to announce that their new collection will feature Morrissey, the man considered by many to be the greatest living lyricist in the world... blah blah blah... who has been photographed exclusively for Supreme by the world famous fashion and portrait photographer, Terry Richardson... blah blah blah, etc etc etc ', instead we have been informed via two statements that the relationship between Supreme and Morrissey has broken down before it has even begun. Are Supreme being run by Steve Barnett?


POSTER IN PIECES - PARIS

Just hours after posters of Morrissey wearing a Supreme t-shirt started appearing on streets all over the world, Morrissey issued the following statement on his True-To-You website:



Supreme then responded with a statement of their Facebook page:





The Supreme statement gave us that confirmation that the photograph had indeed been taken by Terry Richardson, but it was in complete conflict to Morrissey's version of events. The burning question is, 'which of the two statements is true?', or has there actually been no fall-out at all, and this is all just one big publicity stunt?

Morrissey's "excessive apologies for this association" is quite damning towards Supreme, and such a statement would suggest that Morrissey genuinely wishes that he wasn't being featured in the Supreme campaign, but interestingly Morrissey has NOT asked his fans to boycott Supreme, and in particular the soon to be released t-shirt featuring his "enfeebled photo". Morrissey also hasn't made any mention of taking out a court injunction to stop Supreme using his image. Would he not do that if he really felt that strongly?

Likewise, Supreme's statement that there was, "no other viable options" doesn't quite ring true. If Morrissey had been as obstructive as Supreme have stated, then would they really continue to use him in their new campaign? Would they really want to be associated with him in any way? Would they really want to give Morrissey such publicity? If I were the CEO of Supreme, I would rather use the image of a hag from the backstreets rather than Morrissey's. What is more, if Morrissey really refused to return the money, then WHY didn't Supreme sue him; especially as they would have been able to prove to a court that they had been more than reasonable with their other options.

The only common ground in the two otherwise conflicting statements, is that Morrissey offered to return the money and call the whole thing off, and Supreme offered to take back the money and call the whole thing off, and yet... Hmm.



One thing that I certainlydon't agree with Morrissey over, is that the photo of him is either "enfeebled" or "fit only for a medical encyclopaedia" - Moz looks the picture of rude health. Morrissey's statement didn't explain if the enfeeblement and fitness were in relation to how he thought he looked, or to the quality of the photograph taken by El Tel. However, Our Mozzer appeared in The Wrong Arms (that's Twitter to you) yesterday evening at 8pm UK time, BEFORE either of the two announcements had been made, and he retweeted an old photo that I had posted of him and Terry, which would tend to suggest that he has no beef with El Tel.


PHOTO ORIGINALLY TWEETED BY TERRY RICHARDSON IN EARLY 2015, TWEETED BY ME YESTERDAY, AND SUBSEQUENTLY RETWEETED BY OUR MOZZER

Our Mozzer also tweeted, "Supremely amusing", which I took to mean that he was enjoying seeing photos of the posters all over social media. There was certainly no indication that Our Mozzer was annoyed by the campaign. OM also replied to a tweet that I had posted earlier in the day; which featured: a Youtube clip of the song Terry by Kirsty MacColl, a Supreme poster, and another Terry R photo featuring the word 'ROSE', by tweeting, "@TheRatsBack @Terry_World well it happens a lot round here."






Our Mozzer also tweeted: "My mind is a holiday destination"followed by,"My mind is a factory of death", which suggests that he is constantly battling with his own thoughts. Well, we know that!

It was at this stage that the TTY statement was posted, at which point OM returned to The Arms and tweeted, "Shame is the name". I asked Our Mozzer what had happened to "supremely amusing", to which he replied, "see how the outside contradicts what's inside...". I replied, "And certainly not the first time we've seen this, but which is the truth?", to which OM shrugged (if one can shrug via a tweet), and replied, "don't ask me, what do I know?"


MORRISSEY IN GQ MAGAZINE 2014 - PHOTO BY TERRY RICHARDSON

When I later tweeted a copy of Supreme's statement, OM tweeted to me, "and that, I think, is supremely amusing". He didn't elaborate as to why he found it supremely amusing - perhaps OM had actually written the statement for them!

If Morrissey doesn't take out a court injunction to stop Supreme using his image, and if Supreme don't decide to scrap the campaign featuring a man who has publicly rubbished them, then the Morrissey t-shirts will go on sale on February 18th priced at 44 dollars.



Today at 1pm UK time, OM appeared again in The Arms to post, "Nobody owns art", and then at 2.22pm, he rather bizarrely replied to a tweet posted by @EdwynCollins from 14 MAY 2014, which read, "PS Morrissey is here on Twitter, fact, !!!@@@@@@@@@@@@@@!!! - Edwyn". OM's reply of today to this 21 month old tweet was,"no I'm bloody not".

WHAT was the point of this tweet of OM's? Was it merely a result of him having done a search of 'Morrissey twitter' and finding the tweet from the former lead singer of Scottish post-punk band, Orange Juice, or was it to show us that Collins KNOWS?

Collins's original tweet of May 2014 was obviously in relation to the long defunct, @ItsMorrissey twitter account, but perhaps Morrissey has recently let him know about the @BRSChairman account. In reply to OM's "no I'm bloody not" tweet, I posted a smiley face, and then rather oddly got a tweet from @EdwynCollins saying, "@TheRatsBack Re' Mozz? He's not on 'Twitter' it's a joke, SORRY - Edwyn." The most interesting thing about Collins's tweet; apart from the fact that it was rather random for him to tweet me at all, was that for some reason, he had untagged @BRSChairman - WHY? I have a feeling Collins knows, you know... but who knows?


EDWYN COLLINS - FRIEND OF BOZ BOORER

*Goes off singing* Guilt by implication, by association, I've always been true to you, in my own strange way, she laughed and said, "Shame is the name", she said, "Shame is the name".

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February 16, 2016, 1:03 pm

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At 6.30pm (UK time) yesterday evening, the Number 1 Morrissey themed backstreet Internet pub, The Wrong Arms, was treated to a visit by the delectable Mademoiselle Fifi.


Fifi made straight for the jukebox, and selected 6 plays for 50p. Her choices were: Like I've Never Been Gone by Billy Fury, You're The Reason I'm Living by Elvis Presley, The Girl From Ipanema by Dionne Warwick & Sacha Distel, Ces Mots Stupidesi by Sacha Distel & Johanna Shimkus, Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour by Françoise Hardy & Sacha Distel, and finally Il y a Deux Filles en Moi by Sylvie Vartan & Françoise Hardy; to which Mlle Fifi added the comment, "I am two people."I replied, "Just two?", to which Fifi responded, "Oui, but there's a crowd in my head."

I had never heard the Presley song before; which I really like, and had also never heard of Johanna Shimkus; who I now have learned is a former actress married to Sidney Poitier for the past 40 years.

JOHANNA SHIMKUS

I asked Mlle Fifi what she thought to the new pub name, to which she replied, "I couldn't have found a better name myself". And then she was gone.

Fifi's visit was shortly followed by another TTY posting regarding Morrissey's ongoing spat with Supreme that I wrote about in my last blog entry. Here is the latest statement:

Supreme, yet not

As a matter of fact, I do not have, do not want, nor do I need, any money from the company called Supreme.

If Supreme have sent money in my name then they could track it down and reclaim it - if they had NOT printed that photograph of me for their 2016 campaign.

By running prints of the photograph they have derailed their own negotiations. This is why they are angry.

The photograph is dreadful and will help neither myself nor Supreme. Who needs it? Nobody.

Supreme were warned by my lawyer and accountant that the photograph should NOT be used. Supreme ignored this advice. Hence this mess.

I write these statements because there is no one else to write them. The joy I receive from such statements is non-existent.

thank you,
Morrissey
15 February 2016.


THE SUPREME PHOTO - NEEDED BY NOBODY... ALTHOUGH I HAVE TO ADMIT, I QUITE FANCY THE T-SHIRT

In my last blog entry, I wrote of my confusion over Morrissey's public battle with Supreme, and even wondered if it was all a bit of media fakery. Morrissey's latest TTY statement leaves me in little doubt that Moz and Supreme have genuinely had a major fall out, and I have come up with my own version of possible events - which are, of course, purely speculative:

JULY 2015 - Supreme approach Morrissey and ask if he would be interested in featuring in their Spring/Summer 2016 range of clothing. Morrissey, who doesn't really know anything about Supreme; apart from the fact that Lou Reed previously modelled for them, agrees to feature, and informs Supreme that his fee for a two hour photo shoot plus the use of his image is X, or rather £XX,XXX. Supreme agree to the fee, and send a contract to Morrissey's lawyer. Supreme also contact photographer, Terry Richardson, to arrange for him to photograph Moz. Morrissey contacts his accountants and tells them to invoice Supreme for £XX,XXX, which they do, and Supreme's accounts department promptly make a payment to the accountant.

OCTOBER 2015 - Morrissey attends a photo shoot with Terry Richardson, but Morrissey's longtime aide and coiffeur, Damon Anacreonte is for some reason not in tow.


DAMON 'KEVIN PHILLIPS' ANACREONTE - 'IN TOW' IN QUITO NOV 2015

NOVEMBER 16-20 2015 - Supreme send Morrissey a copy of the photo that they intend to use and ask for his approval. Morrissey is horrified by the photo, which has him with flat hair. He emails Supreme to tell them that he looks dreadful, and that under no circumstances does he want them to use it. Supreme respond by sending Morrissey another image, which he also promptly rejects. Supreme then send over more images and ask Morrissey to choose one. Morrissey rejects them all, and instead sends them an image taken by another photographer, which he is happy for them to use. The photo in question has Morrissey's hair with much more life.

MORRISSEY BY SAM ESTY RAYNER

NOVEMBER 23-26 2015 - Supreme contact Morrissey to say that they cannot use the image that he has sent them, as they have a longtime working relationship with Terry Richardson and want to carry on using him. Supreme offer to do a re-shoot at their expense. Morrissey explains that he is currently on a tour of South America, and so a re-shoot is not possible. Supreme ask for their money back. Morrissey responds by saying that he has sent them a perfectly useable photo to use and he posts it on his T-T-Y website.

NOVEMBER 26-28 2015 - The appearance of Morrissey in a Supreme t-shirt brings outrage from his fans on the internet because of Supreme's recent line of clothing featuring American burger chain, White Castle.

NOVEMBER 29 2015 - Morrissey contacts Supreme and tells them that he has learnt that they are heavily associated with a burger chain, and that he is therefore terminating the agreement forthwith. Supreme again ask for their money back. Morrissey's accountant contacts Supreme and tells them that as Morrissey has given two hours of his time to Supreme, he is entitled to keep part of the fee.

DECEMBER 2105 - EARLY FEBRUARY 2016 - Negotiations continue between Supreme and Morrissey's accountant as to how much money should be returned. Supreme don't accept any proposal put forward, and state that they intend to use one of the Richardson photographs in their campaign. Morrissey's accountant and lawyer warn Supreme that the photo should NOT be used.

FEBRUARY 12 2016 - Supreme ignore all warnings not to use Morrissey's image, and start displaying posters of the Morrissey photo in cities all over the world.



FEBRUARY 13 2016 - Morrissey issues a statement on his T-T-Y website apologizing for his enfeebled photograph and stating that Supreme were warned not to use it. Supreme respond by posting a statement on their Facebook page suggesting that they had no other viable options other than to publish the images.

FEBRUARY 15 2016 - Morrissey issues a further statement on T-T-Y stating that if Supreme had NOT printed the photograph, then they could have reclaimed the money, but by running the prints, they had derailed their own negotiations.

So, there we have it. A poor hair day ended up leading to a supreme fall-out.

Our Mozzer has also made a number of appearances in The Arms over the past few days. Here are his offerings:

Sunday Feb 14
11.42pm: "In the writer swells uncountable worlds"

Monday Feb 15
10.53pm: "Disassociate"

11.35pm: In response to a photo tweet (originally posted by @sophwilkinson) that I retweeted, depicting a billboard in East London where 'Moz Supreme' posters had been ripped down: "You can always count on Brand for something".


AN EAST LONDON BILLBOARD - BEFORE AND....


... AFTER

11.38pm: "Kanye West is the greatest living troll. Although he appears to not know it."

Tuesday Feb 16
10.24am: "Handsome and retweetable"

3.30pm: In response to @heathercat222 asking if handsome and retweetable are the only things to be in 2016: "Am I repeating myself ? Am I such a bore? I don't realise I had turned into @piersmorgan"

8.16pm: "Lady Gaga turns Bowie into a caricature" (Ed - this was in response to Gaga dressing as Bowie and performing his songs at yesterday's Grammys)



8.18pm: "@BoyGeorge would you be open to a duet? Dancing in the street? I'll be Jagger and you can be Matha (sic)"


THE WRONG ARMS CHART - NOT BROADCAST

1. SHAME IS THE NAME - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZoORfD_1Vw

2. I AM TWO PEOPLE - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFlc9q6AHX4

3. IL Y A DEUX FILLES EN MOI - SYLVIE VARTAN & FRANÇOISE HARDY (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGtj3SHIikQ

4. YOU'RE THE REASON I'M LIVING - ELVIS PRESLEY (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siYnR56hWKw

5. THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA - DIONNE WARWICK & SACHA DISTEL (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRIxByKzIJE

6. LIKE I'VE NEVER BEEN GONE - BILLY FURY (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ8-cQ6lEaY

7. LE PREMIER BONHEUR DU JOUR - FRANÇOISE HARDY & SACHA DISTEL (NEW ENTRY):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4JnfDg8Nrs

8. CES MOTS STUPIDESI - SACHA DISTEL & JOHANNA SHIMKUS (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr-ERyTWKx8



9. SPEEDWAY (LIVE IN HOLLYWOOD 2013) - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioefcU8Pk7g&feature=youtu.be

10. THE YOUNGEST WAS THE MOST LOVED (LIVE ON LATER WITH JOOLS HOLLAND 2006) - MORRISSEY (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR5txeafe54&feature=youtu.be

11. I'D LOVE TO - MORRISSEY (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EDttFUX1oU



12. KISS ME A LOT - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxcPv85f2jk

13. TERRY - KIRSTY MACCOLL (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pivL4QdtiuM



14. ADORE (LIVE IN PARIS 2015) - SAVAGES (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqRtMHvi93s

15. LADY GRINNING SOUL (LIVE IN BRUSSELS 2014) - ANNA CALVI (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLE4YkUAFR8

16. WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? (LIVE ON VH1 1984) - THE SMITHS (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqlmPRo5_Jg

17. ALMA MATTERS (LIVE IN HOLLYWOOD 2013) - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToWcitbV5bg




18. LOSING SLEEP (LIVE ON THE HARALD SCHMIDT SHOW 2011) - EDWYN COLLINS FEATURING BOZ BOORER (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni5DJEuuwr0

19. SUPREME - ROBBIE WILLIAMS (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULTtWUZhD9c



20. SK8TER BOI - AVRIL LAVIGNE (NEW ENTRY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIy3n2b7V9k

Day 1621 - Fact of the Fiction

February 20, 2016, 10:55 am

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It has been a funny old few days in the world of the BRS, with two of the most active members, MerryAnne and Kerry the Cocktail, deciding to leave; stating that they wish to go in a, "different direction" - although what direction this is, God only knows.... not that there is a God of course, it is just a turn of phrase. Perhaps 'Moz only knows' should be adopted instead.

MOZ - ONLY HE KNOWS

The reasons given by MerryAnne and Kezza for removing themselves as both moderators and contributors from the BRS blog, The World of Moz, and thus "revoking association" are:

1) Not feeling "comfortable" with comrade herpes writing about the illuminati - even though bothMorrisseysWorld AND TTY have previously posted on the subject and

2) Not liking me writing about Morrissey's spat with Supreme - even though that wasn't actually posted on TWOM, as I am not a contributor.

It all seems a little flimsy and pedantic to me, but MerryAnne and Kezza are certainly not the first to leave the BRS, and no doubt they won't be the last. I for one wish them well, and thank them for their previous contributions... even though every article/review that they ever wrote for the BRS, they have now deleted from TWOM!


KEZZA PICTURED WITH A BLUE ROSE AT HAMMERSMITH



MERRYANNE (RIGHT) WITH A BLUE ROSE IN VEGAS - NOW GONE IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION

I had presumed that the deletion of all of MerryAnne's and Kezza's articles from TWOM, would have meant that all the comments would be lost too; which included Astra's beautiful words, and some anonymous comments which, a number of people believe may have come from the hand of Moz. Luckily, the comments have remained in the admin part of the blogsite, and Chucky Orange has today reposted the comments as a new article on TWOM. I hadn't previously seen the anonymous comments, posted last August, but I have to say, they certainly read as though they might well have been written by Morrissey. It is the written equivalent of seeing a piece of street art that may, or may not be, the work of Banksy.


A POSSIBLE BANKSY THAT I RECENTLY CAME ACROSS IN MY HOME TOWN, ON THE WALL OF A DERELICT AND ABANDONED ART DECO HOTEL

Just in case the TWOM blog one day self combusts, here are the anonymous comments in question:

20/7/2015 -

"I am the patron saint of lost causes. The purveyor of maladies. The conflicted court marshal (sic) of hope. Moving between different states appears to be a talent many humans possess however only a select few of them can achieve the required results. Well, what are the required results? Can you acquire the mental faculties to summon the answers for yourself or must I spell everything out? Liquid becomes slabs of concrete in the presence of the suffering masses. Nourishment of mental thought is lacking throughout the human condition. The ability to present oneself in many different guises is the only way you can hope to survive in the world. If you scrape beneath the mud, dirt and grime of the Id, ego, and superego you find only a shell on a man. This shell must, in whatever way possible, build up a front of character to bypass the hazards and suffering of existence. Traits from characters in literature, cinema, music, and even friends if you burden yourself with such commitment, must be taken, consumed, and adapted to provide an ‘original’.

Of course such images are everywhere and there is much to choose from. Mobile’s (sic) bring us closer together but also further apart. Whereas before you had the excitement of the written word on paper in the form of a letter, now you have impersonal type fonts and instant messaging. Send a message and you can immediately see if it has been read and ignored. With the letter you could potentially wait weeks for a response, baited breath and tightened trousers. The world of instant communication is a distraction, it tricks us into thinking that we have ‘friends’ but really we only have screens. Whilst one message is sent on one platform, another is soon sent on another. The time where discoveries of art could be made is now taken up with messaging and television. We live in hope of a technological disaster. The primitive state has never and will never be bettered. "



12/8/2015 - A question was asked as follows: In The Decay of Lying, Wilde said, “Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.” Do you believe thinking (or overthinking) can possibly be an unhealthy tendency?

And here is the reply from Anon:

"Oscar always speaks sense and it is to Oscar I find myself returning to time after time. Although one must disagree with him on one point; “thought it not catching” is quite clearly a ridiculous statement in regards to England as in England nobody ever thinks so there can be no data on whether it is catching or not. The same opinions are repeated in newspapers, on television, on radio but with different words or perhaps a different style of speaking. The window of discussion in England has become so narrow, opaque, and dull that soon only one opinion will be able to be viewed, much like staring at the same view every day for the rest of your life. Anyone with a difference of opinion will be viewed as a crank, an idiot, or even worse, mental. Indeed if anyone ever managed to conjure a unique thought then they would become so shocked they would decompose into mush in the very spot in which they were standing.

I find that thinking or overthinking is an overtly personal affair. How many bedsit poets are there? How many box-room philosophers? We will, of course, never know. Those who are capable of thinking will never voice the true thoughts in their heads. They will suffer and probably plunge into a deep depression in the belief that they are outsiders and that the world doesn’t want or indeed need them. They don’t know, for how could they?, that it is the outsiders who make the world. I should know. Back in 1981, before the internet and before Tony Blair, I was an unknown freak. Today I am an icon. Why? Because I dared to say something different. In a world of grey, I was a spec of orange.

Thinking can be totally and incongruously ruin-able. A disease if you would. For to sit for days, weeks, months, and possibly years with your own thoughts, never to be able to articulate them is ruinous. That can kill the spirit. But we must plough on. It’s either isolation and our thoughts or the dumbing down of our minds thanks to television or the internet."



14/08/2015 - A question was asked as follows: You published your autobiography in 2013, and recently stated that you've finished your novel. When it comes to your literary choices regarding genre, do you prefer fictional or non-fictional books? Is a story more touching and relevant when/because it really happened, or are these unrelated subjects?

Here is the reply from Anon. The first line of the reply is INCREDIBLE, bearing in mind it was written well BEFORE anyone had set eye on List of the Loss - it is 'fact of the fiction', a phrase used by Morrissey on the back cover of LotL:

"Sometimes the fiction of a story is actually the author’s true thoughts and experiences so should not be labelled fiction at all. Most non-fiction can bore the knickers off of a nun. We are told not to judge books by their covers although you are allowed to do so with musicians! How many more records would I have sold if people would dare scrape behind the public image?

I find that most non-fiction authors are emotionally detached from their subject matter; one could read a book about the genocide in Rwanda and feel absolutely nothing. Then there are books such as The diaries of Kenneth Williams which produce tears from the very first passage, a shovel to the head. ‘Britishness’ died when he snuffed it. "

KENNETH WILLIAMS - THE LAST BASTION OF BRITISHNESS


LIST OF THE LOST - RELEASED SEPT 24 2015

14/08/2015 - A question was asked as follows: Would you consider marrying me in an ancient occult blood sharing ritual in a graveyard at midnight during a full moon?

Anon's reply:

"It’s already happened. Can you not remember? I shall not expect an anniversary gift then. Unloveable forever."

23/09/2015 -

"Beauty masks the ugly and ugly masks the beauty. Who has it in them to be unmasked? Starts feel like endings and endings feel like starts. Who has it in them to end a start? Art becomes distasteful but then distasteful itself becomes art. Who finds art distasteful? Life is death and death is life. Each second matters to no-one but ourselves. Selfishness accelerates at such a speed that whiplash is to be expected if the speed is to (sic) slow. My life has been given to art and yet art wants nothing to do with my life. Managers manage nothing but self-loathing. Artists must manage themselves but self-loathing in artists happens long before the management process. We spend each day processing smells, processing sights, processing faces but we do not process feelings. True feelings do not exist in real life. The only true feeling we have is the emotion that is a response to the singing voice. The singing voice can produce feelings of sadness, happiness, nothingness, loneliness etc.
The singing voice is all we have. The singing voice is all I have.

Yours unretired,
Nobody’s nothing"

"THE SINGING VOICE IS ALL I HAVE"

There are other questions and answers from August 2015, which can still be foundon TWOM, but just in case of that self combustion, here they are:

1) Do you think if you were a woman, you would have less, equal, or more success as an internationally known recording artist?


"You ask this question like I’ve had any success at all! You must only look at the radio ‘playlists’ to realise what a male orientated world the music industry is. To find a female artist on playlists of radio stations such as XFM is like trying to find a hit from Johnny Marr’s solo albums. You have to ask yourself what it takes to become a successful female recording artist. If it was brains and intellect then Patti Smith would have been number one for several decades. If it is the voice then it would be Joni Mitchell. If it is politics then it would Buffy. But of course none of these things matter. The thing that sells with female recording artists is, unfortunately still, sex. Those who wear the least clothes will sell the most. Driven and managed by sex mad, chauvinistic, male record label bosses, singers are forced to perform erotically in each video they make to the satisfaction of these bosses who presumably watch this videos to excite themselves when their wives have left them.

To answer your questions, I would have had no success at all because I would have refused to play that game. Some things are worth more than success and money. I would still have my integrity as I clean the spillages in aisle four. "

THE FEMALE MOZ PLAYING DEATH OF A DISCO DANCER DURING A BREAK FROM ONE OF HER CLEANING JOBS

2) If you were granted 3 wishes: one for yourself, one for the world, and a bonus wish, what would you wish for?

Three wishes for myself because lets face it the world does not want my wishes or deserve them.

1) That I never set eyes on Mike Joyce and that we hired Boy George to drum for The Smiths. They probably have the same ability. 
2) To have a 5 album record deal. I know I said these wishes for myself but really this is a wish for the whole world.
3) To retire to Blackburn with three dogs and Mike Joyce’s head on the wall. 
4) For Boz to be recognised as the musical talent he is. 

3) What is your preferred method of communication these days?

Carrier pigeon or the singing voice. Failing that? Telepathy

The method of "carrier pigeon" as a means of communication was also mentioned by Alfs Button in a twitter session on September 14 2015, as documented on Day 1105 of FTM - Alf referred to himself as Jack Duckworth.

JACK DUCKWORTH

In other news, Supreme have started selling t-shirts and posters featuring that 'needed by nobody' photo, and already the t-shirts are selling for incredibly overinflated prices on ebay; not, it would seem, because it features Morrissey, but because new Supreme releases are apparentlyVERY collectable. A video has appeared on Youtube of people queuing outside Supreme in New York on the first day of release, which features some of them being asked what they know about Morrissey. In the main, the answer is not a lot (although one very sweet lad tells how I Know It's Over makes him cry), but I guess they will know more now.

Our Mozzer made a flying visit to The Wrong Arms at 7.45pm (UK time) last night to make a comment regarding the Supreme video:

"@TheRatsBack @EmilyeOberg these people may not have heard of me but they know more about me than most".




NOBODY KNOWS ME


The only other sign of OM this week was on Wednesday at 10am (UK time), when he simply posted, "Typos are the bane on my existence", which I presume was in response to his mistyping of Martha on Tuesday.



And finally, my twitter timeline has today been filled by Mancunians wishing the nauseating Tony Wilson a happy 66th birthday, which is rather bizarre as he died nine years ago! He never saw 58, let alone 66. Sidney Poitier is 89 today.... and is alive to blow out the candles.

*Goes off singing* Those schoolgirl days, of telling tales, and biting nails are gone

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Day 1624 - Nothingness

February 23, 2016, 4:04 am

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My twitter timeline over the past few days has never been so empty. The Wrong Arms has been abandoned.

THE WRONG ARMS CHART (Not broadcast)

1. THE WORLD IS FULL OF CRASHING BORES (LIVE IN LONDON 2015) - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY)

2. SING YOUR LIFE - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY)

3. PERSONALITY CRISIS (LIVE ON BURT SUGARMAN'S THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL 1973) - NEW YORK DOLLS (NEW ENTRY)

4. MY LOVE LIFE - MORRISSEY (NEW ENTRY)

5. TO SIR WITH LOVE - LULU (RE-ENTRY)



6. TOMORROW - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY)

7. STOP ME IF YOU THINK YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE - THE SMITHS (RE-ENTRY)


8. ON THE STREETS I RAN (LIVE IN SCOTLAND 2006) - MORRISSEY (NEW ENTRY)

9. PRETTY THING - BO DIDDLEY (NEW ENTRY)




10. NEVER MARRY A RAILROAD MAN - SHOCKING BLUE (RE-ENTRY)


MARISKA VERES - SHOCKING BLUE

11. SOMEBODY TO LOVE (LIVE ON AMERICAN BANDSTAND 1967) - JEFFERSON AIRPLANE


GRACE SLICK - JEFFERSON AIRPLANE



12. SAFE WARM LANCASHIRE HOME - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY)

Day 1629 - A sign of crashing bores

February 28, 2016, 11:22 am

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Close your eyes and picture an imaginary back street called, Morrissey Row. Morrissey Row is a poorly lit road, away from the main drag of the town centre, and is home to a number of Morrissey theme pubs; three of which feature in this story.

The first of these pubs is a long established inn called, The Delve So-low, which is located in the heart of the street, and owned outright by a Chinese American named, David 'Kim Jong-un' Tslag. Tslag earned his 'Kim Jong-un' nickname due to both a facial likeness, and similar dictatorial ways to the North Korean leader. Tslag leaves the day-to-day running of the pub to a small group of volunteers, which include head barman, Uncle Skinny, or 'Prick' as he has nicknamed himself - which he often shortens to simply, 'P.'. The Delve So-low once boasted a thriving community, but in recent years it's popularity has declined, and it is now a place where there are regular brawls among the clientele - more often than not, started by the staff.

THE DELVE SO-LOW PUB IN MORRISSEY ROW

The second pub is a members only club called, The Wrong Arms. The Wrong Arms is home to a small co-operative known as the Blue Rose Society, whose members all wear a rose; which they believe is Morrissey's own personal flower of choice.

And lastly is a newly opened wine bar at the far end of the street called, Heifer Whines. This bar is away from the other pubs, and was purchased by it's three young owners; Kezza, MerryAnne and Bitchy Bob on impulse, having carried out no market research whatsoever to ascertain whether or not there was any demand for such a place.

Each of the three establishments is equipped with both a jukebox and a giant screen. The jukebox in The Delve So-low is stocked mainly with songs by the Smiths, and from Morrissey's solo career up until 1995 - there are no songs from the past 20 years. The jukebox in The Wrong Arms is full of anything and everything; excluding Dread Beerrun, Katy Porridge, Kanye Worst or any of the other non-entities currently masquerading as the populist, whilst the jukebox in the Heifer Whines mainly has songs by Morrissey from his solo career, including multiple copies of Action is my Middle Name and People Are the Same Everywhere.

When the Morrissey website, True-To-You, publishes anything, it is automatically transmitted onto the giant screen in each of the pubs. Our story begins just as such an occurrence has taken place. It is Saturday February 27 2016, and T-T-Y has just released an article entitled, The World Is Full of Crashing Bores, which consists of a video entitled, The Truth About Popular Music.




(Inside The Delve So-low)

UNCLE SKINNY: Oh look, here we go again, yet more bollocky old bollocks from the yesterday man.

POET: But you haven't even watched it yet, so how can you possibly make comment on the content of the video?

UNCLE SKINNY: I don't need to watch it, you Yankee twat, I already KNOW that it will be a load of  horse shite. Anything and everything that that man says, or associates himself with, is wanky fuck piss these days; including his so called musicians.

POET: Then why do you bother coming here?

UNCLE SKINNY: Because I'm waiting for him to reform the Smiths, you dozy dick drip. It's only a matter of time now. He is completely devoid of any new ideas, and will very soon crawl on his knees to plead with Johnny to reunite the greatest group there ever was, and I will be in the front row to see it. I know I'm right, and if you say otherwise, I will sue you. In fact, if you utter another word, I will sue you.



IRISH BLOOD: Well, if anyone's interested, the video is about how dumbed down the music industry has become, and it includes a mention of Morrissey and Marr, and how they once injected poetry and melodic genius into the pop charts.

UNCLE SKINNY: WHAT'S THAT? Morrissey has posted a video about him and Marr? It's a sign. It's a glaringly obvious sign. He hasn't mentioned Marr for years, and now he suddenly posts a video all about how good he was with Johnny. The reunion is ON I tell yer, it's ON!

POET: The video is hardly all about Morrissey and Ma-

UNCLE SKINNY: -SHUT UP, SHUT UP! No one wants to hear your bullshit, you pile of goat cum. You can expect a letter from my wife, I mean lawyer, first thing tomorrow.

(Meanwhile, over at The Wrong Arms, the regulars have just finished watching the video)

RAT: Well, well, well, would you believe it. I spend Wednesday, Thursday and Friday tweeting about how dreadful the record industry is, and now THIS! It's an obvious nod to me. I must write about this latest 'coincidence' on my mesmerizing blog, which Morrissey himself spends hours and hours reading. And look, Moz has even given it the heading, The World Is Full of Crashing Bores, which I just so happened to make Number 1 in the weekly chart I compile on my incredible blog. It couldn't BE more obvious - Morrissey is giving me a virtual wave.

(The other people in The Wrong Arms exchange glances with each other, and roll their eyes. There is silence for a while before eventually Comrade Herpes speaks.)

COMRADE HERPES: You might well be right, Rat, but my initial thought is that it is more likely a nod to MorrisseysWorld. Our Mozzer was always posting conspiracy theory pieces.

HEATHER CAT: Yes, I agree, Comrade. I'm not saying that you're wrong, Rat, but the video is by Paul Joseph Watson, who is an editor of Alex Jones' Infowars website. I'm pretty sure Our Mozzer used to follow Jones on Twitter. It would appear to me that by posting this video on TTY, Morrissey is once again proving that he was involved with MorrisseysWorld.

RAT: Yes, I agree with you two, it's a definite nod to both FTM and MorrisseysWorld... but probably mainly FTM. Let's not ever forget that toothbrush mention in Long Island.

CHUCK: (muttering so that Rat can't hear, but the others can) How could we?

(Everyone sniggers)

RAT: What's that you said?

CHUCK: I said, er, er, how could he? How could Moz do that?

RAT: Do what?

CHUCK: Oh, er, um, ignore me, I'm just a silly fruit.

RAT: Why exactly do you dress up as a fruit? Everyone knows who you are.

CHUCK: I've gotten used to it. I like the feel of the peel against my skin.

RAT: You're weird!

CHUCK: Thank you.



(Meantime, down at the Heifer Whines, the three owners are sat around, hoping that some customers may appear. Kezza has just finished watching the video)

KEZZA: O... M... G! I don't believe what I have just seen.

MERRYANNE: I missed it, what was it?

KEZZA: It was a video from TTY HQ.

MERRYANNE: Oh, what drama. I'm not sure I can cope. What was in the video? Did it have kittens in it?

KEZZA: No, no kittens, but-

MERRYANNE: -That's a shame, what about adult cats?

KEZZA: No, there were no kittens, no cats, no animals at all, but-

MERRYANNE: -No animals? What about cardigans?

KEZZA: No, there were no cardigans, no jackets, and no shirt tosses.

BITCHY BOB: It was another of those conspiracy videos.

MERRYANNE: I do wish Julia wouldn't post those, Morrissey will be dreadfully upset. It's making me feel sad just thinking about how sad Morrissey will now be feeling. I don't think I can go to work now.

KEZZA:  Forget the video, that's completely irrelevant, it's the heading that's important - it's a direct message to YOU, MerryAnne.

MERRYANNE: Oh, WHAT drama, I'm not sure I can cope. How does it relate to me?


KEZZA: Well, which of his songs did you write about yesterday on our utterly superb new blog, The real and proper world of real Morrissey?

BITCHY BOB: Just call it Trap Worm, that's what everyone else calls it.

MERRYANNE: Everyday is Like Sunday?

KEZZA: No, not that one, the other one you wrote about.

MERRYANNE: Dial a cliché?

KEZZA: No, the other one.

MERRYANNE: Our Frank?

KEZZA: NO!

MERRYANNE: The End of the Family Line? We'll let You Know? Seasick, Yet Still Docked?

KEZZA: NO, NO, NO! The World is Full of Crashing Bores! You wrote about it yesterday, remember?

BITCHY BOB: We all wrote about LOTS of songs.

KEZZA: Yes, but MerryAnne just so happened to write about Crashing Bores, and then the following day, Morrissey posts on TTY using the EXACT same title. It's IN-CRED-IBLE. Everything Moz does these days is either a nod to me or a nod to MerryAnne... usually me... but this time it's YOUR turn, MerryAnne.

MERRYANNE: Oh, God. I don't think I can cope! WHAT drama.

(Bitchy Bob looks to the heavens, opens his fourth bag of crisps of the day, and returns to reading his copy of Big Nuts Monthly magazine. Just then the door opens, and a small Scottish woman walks in. )


JINKLES: Och, this looks like a nice bar. Are you three the BRS?

KEZZA: The Blue Rose Society? No we're fucking not! We don't want anything to do with those wankers. We're the SBR.

BITCHY BOB: I thought we were the RBS?

KEZZA: S-B-R! *Tuts*

JINKLES: Can I join?

KEZZA: Not just anyone can join the Society of the Blue Rose. To join, you have to really love Moz.

JINKLES: I do!

KEZZA: Oh, yeah? How much?

JINKLES: A lot!

KEZZA: Okay, you're in. But there's to be no mention of conspiracy theories, it's just kittens, cardigans and shirt tosses for the RBS.

JINKLES: I thought you said you were the SBR?

KEZZA: Yes, SBR, that's it. I never was any good at spelling.

(Just then, Morrissey runs down Morrissey Row, past all the Morrissey theme pubs. The inhabitants of the pubs all see Morrissey, and they spill out into the road, to look for him. A blue rose lays (or is it lies, I never can remember) in the middle of the street. Rat picks it up and holds it aloft)

RAT: A SIGN! A SIGN! Morrissey is running away from all the utter pointlessness and uselessness of it all, and he has left us a blue rose as a sign to stick with him. Follow me and the sign of the blue rose. Let us follow the Mozziah.

UNCLE SKINNY: Shut the fuck up, numb nuts, you must have put that rose there earlier, when no one was watching. Morrissey is looking for Marr, and is running towards a new record deal with the Smiths. We must follow Morrissey as he puts the band back together.

(Kezza then snatches the blue rose away from Rat)

KEZZA: The blue rose has been left for ME. Morrissey is telling us that he wants the RBS-

BITCHY BOB: -SBR.

KEZZA: -That he wants the SBR and TRAP WORM to be the new home for his real and proper fans to meet. He has shut down the MorrisseysWorld chatroom, and now wants all of us true and proper fans to get off of our backsides, or rather, stay on our backsides, and follow him to TRAP WORM.

CHUCK: You can't say off of, it's just off.

KEZZA: What?

CHUCK: Sorry, I don't mean to split hairs, but I noticed that you'd written it a couple of times in your piece about favourite songs from albums. You just can't do it.

(Kezza turns to MerryAnne)

KEZZA: I thought you'd checked that article for spelling and grammar.

MERRYANNE: I did, but I didn't want to upset you.

(Whilst the two members of the SBR argue about grammar, the rest of the Morrissey fans head to the hills, looking for Morrissey)

Day 1631 - Flobbalob

February 29, 2016, 9:59 pm

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Now, this may be a genuine coincidence (as opposed to a MorrisseysWorld coincidence; which as we all know, are anything but coincidences), but on Sunday, just three hours after I posted my hilarious new parody which included the line, "A blue rose lays (or is it lies, I can never remember) in the middle of the street", the St.Louis songstress Kristeen Young tweeted, "How do I say this? Just saw these laying? lying? around the studio". KY was referring to some of Tony Visconti's home-made guitar picks, and NOT a blue rose, but it IS somewhat coincidental that KY posted a tweet about lays/lies just after I did - does she really read FTM, or am I am becoming more deluded than the TRAP WORMers?



Last Tuesday I wrote that The Wrong Arms had been abandoned, with no sign of any Moz pessoa's, but since then we have had visits from both Not Bot aka Not Astra's Derrière (@SoStarkSoHaunt); who I am now pretty convinced is a genuine pessoa, and Our Mozzer (@BRSChairman).

Not Bot mainly posted photos (of Françoise Hardy, Claudia Cardinale, Jeanne Moreau, Steve McQueen and Federico Fellini), but also retweeted my playing of Personality Crisis, and Barbarism Begins At Home. Not Bot also tweeted on Saturday, "I married adventure. I married singularity."

Our Mozzer's appearance was just after midnight on Sunday morning. Here are his tweets:

"Dead from the nose up."

In response to Boy George tweeting, "Great show tonight! Well done Paloma!": "when did you become a self promoting bore?"

"I've had no sleep since Hammersmith. My audience has not had a better sleep since Hammersmith."

In response to me playing the 16 minute live version of Barbarism by the Smiths: "@TheRatsBack it's amazing how well the flower pot men come across here."



ANDY & MIKE? - FLOBBALOB

In response to ex-footballer (and favourite pin-up of Broken) tweeting, "Eaaaarly! Got these kids on a  military operation to get out this house! "Line up...breath test...face cream scan...hair scan...done": "@rioferdy5 missed drugs test?"

In response to Erica Calil posting a photo of Morrissey from 1995 with fake scars on his face: "@EricaCalil singer, sexual icon, cultural icon, terrorist."


TERRORIST

Our Mozzer's only other two tweets were a picture of the Green Ensign of Ireland, and a GIF of actor David Morrissey's head, superimposed onto Miley Cyrus's wrecking ball body; which OM accompanied with, "I'm completely outraged".



And that's all for today. It is now 6am, and I'm off to Buckingham for a day of watching sport. I don't expect I will be writing another parody in a hurry, after Sundays' received just FOUR comments. I guess that is a true reflection of where we currently are with all this.... or it could be a reflection on the fact I'm a c**t!

THE WRONG ARMS CHART (Not broadcast)

1. THE WORLD IS FULL OF CRASHING BORES (LIVE IN LONDON 2015) - MORRISSEY (NO CHANGE)

2. BARBARISM BEGINS AT HOME LIVE EP (THE TUBE 1984) & (LAGUNA HILLS CALIFORNIA 1985) - THE SMITHS (NEW ENTRY)



3. PERSONALITY CRISIS (LIVE ON BURT SUGARMAN'S THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL 1973) - NEW YORK DOLLS (NO CHANGE)

4. TROUBLE LOVES ME (LIVE IN PORTSMOUTH 2006) - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY)

5. I KNOW IT'S GONNA HAPPEN SOMEDAY (LIVE IN SAN JOSE CALIFORNIA 2014) - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY)

6. DEAR GOD, PLEASE HELP ME (LIVE IN WASHINGTON DC 2007) - MORRISSEY (NEW ENTRY)

7. HAND IN GLOVE (LIVE AT THE HAÇIENDA 1983) - THE SMITHS (RE-ENTRY)

8. ACTION IS MY MIDDLE NAME (LIVE IN LAS VEGAS 2016) - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY)

9. NOBODY LOVES US (ALTERNATE VERSION) - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY)

10. LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? - MORRISSEY (RE-ENTRY)

11. TV EYE/1970 (LIVE IN CINCINNATI 1970) - IGGY & THE STOOGES (NEW ENTRY)



12. OH BONDAGE UP YOURS! (LIVE ON TWNDISH BBC WALES 1978) - X RAY SPEX (NEW ENTRY)

13. SOME GIRLS ARE BIGGER THAN OTHERS (LIVE IN LONDON 1986) - THE SMITHS (RE-ENTRY)

14. IN THE FUTURE WHEN ALL'S WELL (RECORDED FOR MEXICAN TV 2006) - MORRISSEY (NEW ENTRY)

15. IS THAT ALL THERE IS? - PEGGY LEE (RE-ENTRY)

16. THE PEEL SESSIONS EP - THE SMITHS (NEW ENTRY)

17. I WANNA BE YOUR DOG - THE STOOGES (NEW ENTRY)

18. FATE TO FATAL - THE BREEDERS (NEW ENTRY)


19. SUEDEHEAD - MEXRRISSEY (NEW ENTRY)

20. IT'S ALL OVER NOW (LIVE IN SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA 1964) - ROLLING STONES (NEW ENTRY)

21. THE WORLD'S LONELIEST MAN - VINCE EAGER (NEW ENTRY)

22. YOU'RE NEVER TOO OLD TO ROCK N ROLL - VINCE EAGER (NEW ENTRY)

Day 1633 - Money changes everything

March 3, 2016, 1:44 am

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When Our Mozzer made a return to twitter on October 4th 2015 in the guise of BRS Chairman, I made the decision NOT to publish my blog entries observing his activities. This decision was made because, when I initially started writing this blog following OM, I somehow ended up being accused of either: A) Being the person behind the Our Mozzer account or B) Hampering OM's believability/following by being too involved. I wanted the reincarnated OM to be found by inquisitive intellectuals without me fogging the issue.

My decision not to publish my blog entries of that period didn't really have the designed effect however, as not many inquisitive intellectuals came forth, which led to OM getting despondent and disappearing again. I ended up publishing the blog entries in question sometime in late December... although nobody really noticed.

OM has recently returned to twitter again, but his heart doesn't really seem to be in it; certainly not in the way it was in 2011 when he started out. This lack of enthusiasm/caustic wit/entertainment  from OM has lead a number of BRS members privately declaring that they don't believe it to be Moz at all. Some are even questioning if MorrisseysWorld ever was Morrissey! Can they really have forgotten all the hundreds upon hundreds of 'coincidences'?

On Tuesday night at 10.58pm Our Mozzer appeared for one solitary tweet musing,"There is no value in life. No glory in life. Death however?"











Yesterday, I stumbled on a tweet from BRS Chairman from October 10th, stating that when he had reached 200 followers, he would conduct a Twitter Q&A. As he currently now has 245 followers, I tweeted to ask if the Q&A would be coming soon, to which he replied, "it's 500 now. I refuse to demean myself." I replied, "You need to up your game to 2011 levels if you are to gain followers. We need TTY denials, caustic witty tweets & celeb abuse." This morning at 9.04am, the BRS Chairman responded with, "I only rehash my records, not my tweets. There's zero money in this you know."

Is the BRS to die due to a combination of dying faith from the members, and a lack of money to those who run it?.... we're just like the Church of England!

*Goes off singing* As Rose collects the money in the canister, who comes sliding down the banister, the vicar in a tutu, he's not strange, he just wants to live his life this way.

Day 1634 - Give us a drink, and make it quick

March 4, 2016, 5:02 am

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On Thursday February 25th, longtime BRS member, Manc Lad, posted a comment on Day 1624 of FTM to hint that Morrissey was in Ireland. As FTM had recently received a few hits from Ireland, I suspected that Manc Lad might well be right, and when the BRS Chairman tweeted a picture of the Irish ensign just after midnight on Saturday night, that pretty much cemented it.

Last night it was confirmed that our favourite former 80's indie band lead singer was indeed visiting the Emerald Isle, when a few photos appeared on Twitter showing Moz in The Thomas House bar in Dublin. One of the pictures showed Morrissey behind the bar, pulling a pint of Guinness; could our unemployed poet/punk/crooner possibly have found new employment?


IRISH BEER, ENGLISH HAT - "GIVE US A DRINK, AND MAKE IT QUICK" (TODAY IS THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RELEASE OF KILL UNCLE)



DONNIE & MARIE - TWIN PEAKS



PHIL OAKEY & GILBERT O'SULLIVAN



LENNIE PETERS & DIANNE LEE

The pint pulling picture has reminded long term MorrisseysWorlders of the old MW blog pic, depicting Moz as a pub landlord:



Funnily enough, Our Mozzer wasn't in The Wrong Arms last night, so I have nothing else to add today, so I shall now go back to listening to Pregnant for the Last Time, which I currently have on repeat.

Day 1635 - They fuck you up, your mum and dad

March 5, 2016, 4:46 am

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Last Wednesday, whilst enjoying a top of my voice sing-a-long to the 2014 classic, Staircase at the Universi-tay, I got to wondering what could possibly have inspired Morrissey to write about such subject matter; after all, it's not as though Morrissey ever experienced being a revision cramming, 'A' level taking, teenage girl.... I don't think!

I decided to tweet Mademoiselle Fifi, to ask if she (although of course Mlle Fifi isn't actually a 'she', the original character was an effeminate he, so from now on I shall try to remember to refer to Mlle Fifi as he) had a theory, and yesterday evening at 6.50pm, I got a reply:

"Could it be about the Grey Lady of Durham Castle? Non, that was just a wild guess."

I quickly googled 'Grey Lady of Durham Castle', and found some sketchy information about an ash coloured apparition, who was said to have originally been a woman who threw herself down the black staircase at Durham Castle, but could find no reference to her being a student, so responded to Mlle Fifi by saying, "Hmm, the Grey Lady wasn't even a student! Are you pulling my ratty tail?"
Fifi replied, "you are so rational Rat."


THE BLACK STAIRCASE AT DURHAM CASTLE

At this point, Mlle Fifi dragged me into a cubicle of The Wrong Arms loos (pronounced 'restroom' to those reading in an American accent) and elaborated as follows:

"Some say she was killed by priests but some say she threw herself from the top of the staircase to avoid forced marriage. Isn't it sad that some people commit suicide because of their parents? The castle's now part of Durham University. It's just another silly theory, not the truth. I have to go, I don't want to be late for my second shift." And she was gone.


DURHAM CASTLE - NOW A UNIVERSITY

I decided to conduct a more thorough search of google, but could find no reference to priests or forced marriages, which leads me to believe that Mlle Fifi's information has come from a book, and therefore isn't"just another silly theory", I believe Fifi is telling the truth, and I was being too rational. The song isn't about an academic girl killing herself at a university; after all, the girl in the song hasn't even taken the exams yet, so she would't be at university, the song is actually about the more broader subject of child suicidecaused by parents.

Suicide often comes about as a result of despair, lost love, addiction, seeing no future etc, but child suicide directly caused by the actions of a parent; whether it be as a result of abuse, avoiding forced marriage, neglect; or in the case of this song, the burden of expectation, is something different altogether. The verses of the song tell the story of expectation, where as the chorus of "Staircase at the university, she threw herself down, and her head split three ways" is almost a dream sequence, with our girl academic picturing herself as that woman in Durham university, throwing herself down the stairs to make the burden of expectation disappear - the fact that the Grey Lady wasn't a student is irrelevant.




Despite Mlle Fifi informing me that he (I remembered!) had to leave to go on a second shift (as barman at The Thomas House bar), he actually popped back into The Wrong Arms at 9.09pm, and posted a photo and brief statement regarding social justice for animals:

"Social justice for animals isn't much to demand because we're only asking humans to think rationally and with heart"
HAPPY CAT LISTENING TO MORRISSEY WHILST LYING ON A BED OF ROSES - PHOTO ALLEGEDLY BY MOZ FAN, ROSY 'CLOVER DEAN', ALTHOUGH TTY HAS STATED 'PHOTOGRAPH SOURCE UNKNOWN'

Fifi's statement was a follow up to a previous statement that had been posted on T-T-Y an hour earlier, entitled Morrissey: Mayor of London?, in which we were informed that Morrissey has been invited to become the London Mayoral candidate for the Animal Welfare Party. I don't know why, but for some reason, my thoughts immediately turned to the man who dressed as a monkey to run for Mayor of Hartlepool.... and won!



Morrissey would of course be a great voice for the voiceless (he already is), but I think he would be too 'pure and true' to successfully run for office. If he ran an election campaign based just on people (or Londoners in this case) treating animals with more respect, then I think he would get good support; after all, you don't have to be a non meat eater to have a love of animals, but herein lies the problem - I can't see Morrissey accepting this sentiment; especially as his latest TTY statement includes the line, "if you are a part of the milk-drinking population, then you condone systems of torture". He is of course right, but it is all about small steps. The vegetarians say to the meat eaters, "how can you claim to truly love animals if you eat them?", whilst the vegans say to the vegetarians, "how can claim to truly love animals if you eat dairy products?", and the ethical vegans say to the vegans, "how can you claim to truly love animals if you wear leather or consume/use products where animals may have been used in some way?" Ultimately it isn't a competition, and if we could just get the world to give animals as happy a life as possible, then that would be a step in the right direction. If Morrissey were to run for Mayor, he would have to become more diplomatic, and NOBODY wants a diplomatic Morrissey - would it even be possible?

*Goes off singing* March, April, May, she crammed night and day, I hadn't seen her smile in a while

FOOT NOTE (1) - Mlle Astra made a most welcome return to FTM today, leaving a comment on Day 1633.

FOOT NOTE (2) - On a personal note, my eldest son recently received an offer to study at Durham University.... if he gets three As! True.

FOOT NOTE (3) - Yesterday at 2.40pm, Manc lad wrote on FTM, "tomorrow i will play London Calling", and just a few hours later, TTY posts the London Mayor story... hmm.

Day 1638 - Living on video

March 7, 2016, 4:47 pm

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Astra has made an unexpected return to the corridors of FTM, leaving comments over the weekend on  Day 1633. Apart from that visit from Astra, all has been quiet in the world of Moz, with no pessoas in The Wrong Arms, and no sightings of Moz in Irish pubs. There has been no further word as to whether or not Morrissey will accept the offer from the Animal Welfare Party to run for the office of Mayor of London, but Ladbrokes currently have Moz at 500/1 to win, whereas rather bizarrely they have the despicable, self-promoting cunt, George Galloway at just 50/1..... Actually, as Galloway thinks he's a cat, perhaps he will stand down and back Morrissey.

THE DESPICABLE GEORGE GALLOWAY & PETE 'THE POUT' BURNS

Rather intriguingly, a comment was left on my last blog entry by an Alexandra Jennings Cronin, who claims to be the youngest grandchild of the novelist, A J Cronin. Alexandra gives an excellent theory of her grandfather's novel, Hatter's Castle being another possible influence for the song Staircase At the University. Alexandra also claims to not be a fan of Morrissey, but seems to know an awful lot about his pessoas, and also made reference to Astra's Longer Than my Never story posted on FTM last November. Alexandra signed off with: *ΚΑΤΑ*ΤΟΝ*ΔΑΙΜΟΝΑ*ΕΑΥΤΟΥ*, which is obviously some sort of code, but I'm jiggered if I know what it means.


A J CRONIN

As my regular regular readers know,  I do love a chart - especially Morrissey related; although I can't say that I have any interest in charts depicting kittens or cardigans. I like music charts, so over the weekend, I decided to trawl through Youtube, to see how many 'views' each of the videos for Morrissey's singles had received, and then put my findings into a chart. Where it warrants, fan-made videos are included:

THE MORRISSEY SINGLES VIDEO VIEWS CHART

1. SUEDEHEAD 6,732,058 (5,278,604 - Loaded by Official Morrissey on March 13 2009 + 409,470 - Loaded by Rhino on Jan 2014 + 1,043,984 - Loaded by beneficiosdelaluna to include Spanish subtitles on March 1 2011)

2. IRISH BLOOD, ENGLISH HEART 5,227,262 (5,126,911 - Loaded by rhubarbcream on Jan 29 2006 + 100,351 - Loaded by rgmu101 on Jul 25 2010)

3. EVERYDAY IS LIKE SUNDAY 3,975,437 (2,922,998 - Loaded by Morrissey on Sept 4 2010 + 263,853 - Loaded by Rhino on Jan 21 2014 + 788,586 - Loaded by Official Morrissey on June 12 2014)


LUCETTE HENDERSON - STAR OF THE EVERYDAY IS LIKE SUNDAY VIDEO

4. FIRST OF THE GANG TO DIE 2,093,399 (1,827,315 - Loaded by Canal de vitotemuko on Sep 3 2008 + 266,084 - Loaded by XvrBlk on Sep 11 2011)

5. I'M THROWING MY ARMS AROUND PARIS 1,706,775 (Loaded by Morrissey on Jun 26 2009)

6. ALMA MATTERS 1,502,233 (Loaded by Morrissey on Jun 16 2009)

7. THAT'S HOW PEOPLE GROW UP 1,411,070 (Loaded by Morrissey on Jun 26 2009)

8. THE LAST OF THE FAMOUS INTERNATIONAL PLAYBOYS 1,302,568 (1,215,442 - Loaded by Official Morrissey on Feb 24 2009 + 87,126 - Loaded by Rhino on Jan 21 2014)

9. TOMORROW  1,211,774 (1,177,341 - Loaded by Official Morrissey on Sept 19 2009 + 34,433 - Loaded by Aly Stevenson on Dec 30 2010)

10. YOU HAVE KILLED ME 853,274 (313,662 - Loaded by mo juh on May 2 2009 + 229,830 by Noiselab Records on Aug 16 2006 + 183,839 - Loaded by xafro to include Spanish subtitles on Oct 13 2008 + 75,345 - Loaded by Red Professor to include Spanish subtitles on Nov 8 2012 + 50,598 - Loaded by Hannerrrrr on Nov 5 2007)



11. MY LOVE LIFE 780,348 (Loaded by Official Morrissey on Sept 19 2009)

12. YOU'RE THE ONE FOR ME, FATTY 761,922 (675,993 - Loaded by Official Morrissey on Sept 18 2009 + 85,929 - Loaded by Rhino on Jan 21 2014)

13. I HAVE FORGIVEN JESUS 681,094 (658,463 - Loaded by rgmu101 on Jul 25 2010 + 22,631 - Loaded by ultimoslafila to include Spanish subtitles on Apr 30 2012)


14. NOVEMBER SPAWNED A MONSTER  578,622 (439,274 - Loaded by Official Morrissey on Feb 24 2009 + 139,348 - Loaded by Rhino on Jan 21 2014)


15. KISS ME A LOT 468,596 (371,285 - Loaded by Sam Esty Rayner on Apr 5 2015 + 62,053 (FAN MADE VIDEO) - Loaded by alexandmira on Aug 6 2014 + 26,157 (FAN MADE VIDEO) - Loaded by Lesley Verbeek on Apr 6 2015 + 9,101 (FAN MADE VIDEO) - Loaded by mute witness on Aug 18 2014)



16. INTERESTING DRUG  452,461 (419,609 - Loaded by Official Morrissey on Feb 24 2009 + 32,852 - Loaded by Rhino on Jan 21 2014)

17. WE HATE IT WHEN OUR FRIENDS BECOME SUCCESSFUL 449,074 (335,180 - Loaded by Official Morrissey on Sept 19 2009 + 113,894 - Loaded by Rhino on Jan 21 2014)

18. INTERLUDE (WITH SIOUXSIE SIOUX) (UNOFFICIAL VIDEO) 423,405 (Loaded by Trashbinder on Feb 7 2006)

19. IN THE FUTURE WHEN ALL'S WELL 381,292 (294,616 - Loaded by What's A You Tube? on Aug 22 2006 + 86,676 - Loaded by nate47 on Aug 23 2006)

20. THE YOUNGEST WAS THE MOST LOVED 371,509 (301,083 - Loaded by nozzer on May 6 2006 + 52,662 - Loaded by Noiselab Records on Aug 16 2006 + 11,186 - Loaded by Morrissey & Marr Jan 16 2014 + 6,578 - Loaded by rocker subtitulos to included Spanish subtitles on Jan 30 2012)

21. OUIJA BOARD, OUIJA BOARD  354,448 (Loaded by Official Morrissey on Feb 24 2009)


JOAN SIMS


22. BOXERS297,752 (Loaded by Official Morrissey on Sept 19 2009)

23. CERTAIN PEOPLE I KNOW 259,921 (Loaded by Official Morrissey on Sept 19 2009)

24. SUNNY 211,253 (176,488 - Loaded by Official Morrissey on Mar 6 2009 + 34,765 - Loaded by Sol to include Spanish subtitles on Mar 8 2011)

25. OUR FRANK195,941 (153,424 - Loaded by Official Morrissey on Sept 19 2009 + 42,517 - Loaded by Mozbricka Sept 14 2006)

26. SING YOUR LIFE  188,204 (Loaded by Official Morrissey on Sept 19 2009)

27. GLAMOROUS GLUE188,055 (176,824 - Loaded by Official Morrissey on Sept 18 2009 + 11,231 - Loaded by Morrissey & Marr on Apr 9 2014)

28. I JUST WANT TO SEE THE BOY HAPPY 118,508 (Loaded by nate47 on Dec 5 2006)

29. WORLD PEACE IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS 114,217 (61,800 (OFFICIAL SPOKEN VIDEO) - Loaded by Lindsey Nicole on Jun 2 2014 + 30,189 (FAN MADE VIDEO) - Loaded by wpeace123456 on May 18 2014 + 22,228 (FAN MADE VIDEO) - Loaded by Sharon Jheeta on Jul 7 2014)



30. BOY RACER  69,287 (52,268 - Loaded by Rhino on Jan 21 2014 + 17,019 - Loaded by Ekaterina K on Jun 27 2012)

31. THE BULLFIGHTER DIES  59,151 (2,578 (OFFICIAL SPOKEN WORD VIDEO) - Loaded by DonkeyDave68 on Mar 16 2015 + 55,247 (FAN MADE VIDEO) - Loaded by trentmorrison on Jul 16 2014 + 1,326 (FAN MADE VIDEO) - Loaded by ManuPalmer on Nov 16 2014

32. ISTANBUL 45,221 (754 (OFFICIAL SPOKEN VIDEO) - Loaded by DonkeyDave68 on Mar 16 2015 + 30,689 (FAN MADE VIDEO) - Loaded by inaminnit on Aug 21 2014 + 13,778 (FAN MADE VIDEO) - Loaded by Groggy at the Cinema on Jun 3 2014)

33. DAGENHAM DAVE  40,601 (14,458 - Loaded by SGGTBLUE on May 5 2013 + 26,143 - Loaded by vivahate33 on Jan 8 2008)


34. PREGNANT FOR THE LAST TIME 37,732 (Loaded by Official Morrissey Sept 19 2009)

35. ALL YOU NEED IS ME 20,912 (19,904 - Loaded by Morrissey Chile on May 20 2012 + 1,008 - Loaded by Morrissey & Marr on Dec 30 2013)

36. EARTH IS THE LONELIEST PLANET  10,933 (580 (OFFICIAL SPOKEN WORD VIDEO) - Loaded by DonkeyDave68 on Mar 16 2015 + 7,682 (OFFICIAL SPOKEN WORD VIDEO + THE SONG ADDED BY FAN) - Loaded by Ivan Illić on Sep 25 2015 + 959 (FAN MADE VIDEO) - Loaded by Ken Nicholas on Sep 13 2014 + 1,712 (FAN MADE VIDEO) - Loaded by alexandmira on Aug 5 2014)

PAMELA ANDERSON IN THE SPOKEN PROMO VIDEO

There are no official or fan-made videos on Youtube for any of the following singles. If someone were to bother making videos for them, they would no doubt get a large number of views:

PICCADILLY PALARE 

THE MORE YOU IGNORE ME, THE CLOSER I GET

HOLD ONTO YOUR FRIENDS

ROY'S KEEN

SATAN REJECTED MY SOUL

REDONDO BEACH

SOMETHING IS SQUEEZING MY SKULL

SATELLITE OF LOVE (LIVE)

Special mention should be made of a fan made video for the song, MY DEAREST LOVE (b side to All You Need Is Me) 177,597 - Loaded by sdsuedehead's channel on Dec 2 2011 (set to a scene from the film Love Story) and an official video for GANGLORD (featured on the maxi single of  The Youngest Was the Most Loved) 40,459 - Loaded by MozLuv59 on Mar 8 2010.

There are also fan made videos for all of the songs featured on the LP, World Peace is None of Your Business. Here is the chart showing the most popular fan made video for each song, which rather surprisingly has a song from the bonus cd as Number 1.

THE WORLD PEACE IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS FAN-MADE YOUTUBE VIDEO CHART

1. ONE OF OUR OWN 66,701 - by TheAmbitiousOutsider

2. KISS ME A LOT  62,053 - by alexandmira

3. THE BULLFIGHTER DIES 55,247 - by trentmorrison

4. STAIRCASE AT THE UNIVERSITY 35,240 - by TheAmbitiousOutsider

5. JULIE IN THE WEEDS 34,526 - by TheAmbitiousOutsider

6. ISTANBUL 30,689 - by inaminnit

7. WORLD PEACE IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS 30,189 - by wpeace123456

8. ART-HOUNDS 25,357 - by TheAmbitiousOutsider

9. SMILER WITH KNIFE 20,768 - by TheAmbitiousOutsider

10. DRAG THE RIVER 20,699 - by TheAmbitiousOutsider

11. KICK THE BRIDE DOWN THE AISLE 18,003 - by alexandmira

12. OBOE CONCERTO 12,874 - by Sharon Jheeta

13. SCANDINAVIA 10,682 - by The AmbitiousOutsider

14. FORGIVE SOMEONE 9,486 - by TheAmbitiousOutsider

15. I'M NOT A MAN 8,596 - by just, Morrissey & The Smiths

16. EARTH IS THE LONELIEST PLANET 7,682 - by Ivan Illić

17. NEAL CASSADY DROPS DEAD 6,293 - by alexandmira

18. MOUNTJOY 3,196 - by just, Morrissey & The Smiths

Viewing figures correct as of March 6 2016.

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Day 1639 - On the fish rampage

March 8, 2016, 4:42 pm

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Our Mozzer paid a visit to The Wrong Arms on Tuesday evening, and was back to his caustic, cutting, no-punches-pulled best. Here is what he had to say:

"The multitude perceive practically nothing"

"Democracy breeds tyranny. That and Piers Morgan on television"

In response to @DallesandroJoe tweeting, "It should be International Women's Day everyday until women are treated equally and with more respect than they get": "Well you say that but have you ever seen Loose Women? They all need to be sterilised"

"My first act as Mayor will be to ban meat. Henceforth Merkel is banned. As are those refugees she used as meat for political gain."

HERR MERKEL AND THE REFUGEES - BANNED

"Please don't think I care about your feelings when you cannot ascertain the pain I suffer when I discover a soggy cucumber"

In response to @NME tweeting, "Adele surprises fans on the first night of her '25' tour in Manchester": "By not being an ugly, coma inducing, bitch?"

ADELE - UGLY COMA INDUCER

In response to @justinbieber tweeting a photo of his new t-shirts with the slogan OUT NOW: "@justinbieber I don't think you'll ever be 'out now'."

"Losing ones hair is a most distressing position. I have Gregg Wallace and Matt Lucas for company. Where's the rope?

L TO R: WALLACE & LUCAS


"@ladygaga sings like a horse, looks like a horse, and probably eats like a horse. If Frankie Dettori needs a new ride..."

TWINS

In response to me tweeting, "Imagine if Morrissey recruited a campaign team of @rickygervais @brigitte_bardot @pamfoundation (Pamela Anderson) @rustyrockets (Russell Brand) etc - hashtag LondonMayor": "More chance of me campaigning with Hitler than Ricky humane meat."

In response to me tweeting, "@BRSChairman You don't think Ricky has a love of animals?": "Only himself."


HITLER AND BLONDI

Our Mozzer's mention of Hitler and Gervais in relation to animal welfare is quite interesting. Despite Hitler's hatred for many humans; particularly jews, who he happily gassed, he was an avid animal lover, and also a visionary; stating in 1941, "there's one thing I can predict to eaters of meat: the world of the future will be vegetarian", and according to a diary entry made by Joseph Goebbels in 1942, Hitler intended to "tackle the problem" of meat eating after the war. It is hard to say how Europe would currently look if Germany had won World War II, but there is a very good chance that we would all be vegetarians, and animals would be respected members of society.

Ricky Gervais is a prominent campaigner for animal welfare, and yet he eats meat; although he is quick to point out that he only eats fish, but it is meat none the less, which is obviously why he has come under attack from Our Mozzer.



Some people find it hard to comprehend how people such as Morrissey and Hitler can value the life of an animal over that of a human, but I find it perfectly normal, totally acceptable, and I agree with it, albeit with a different take. Morrissey (and many other vegetarians/vegans) seems to hold the view that you cannot love animals if you eat them, but that is like saying you cannot love a human if you don't love ALL humans. I care far more about the welfare of my dog (who currently has ligament damage to his knee) than I do about the six million human occupants of Kyrgyzstan, and when my favourite cat was killed by a car, I took a week off work, whereas on the day my brother died, I was at my desk.

To say that me, Ricky Gervais, and anyone who eats meat can't love animals is nonsense, but what I do concede is that I am indifferent towards some animals, just as I am indifferent towards the vast majority of human beings. I love my nearest and dearest; whether they be human or animal, I respect most of the human and animal world, and I am indifferent towards the likes of fish, Katie Price, Belgians, chickens, Yvette Cooper, Lynn Bowles, the Kardashians, Graham Norton, Oliver Letwin, Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses and Southampton fans. Actually, that's not entirely true, I f***ing HATE Yvette Cooper, and would happily feed her to the fishes.

FISH FOOD

Day 1640 - The Last of the Famous International Chess Players

March 10, 2016, 4:40 pm

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Our Mozzer has made a couple of visits to The Wrong Arms in the past few days, and yesterday evening's visit saw him bring a friend with him.... Mundane Glamour. When I say a friend, what I actually mean is pessoa. Ever since Mundane Glamour first arrived in The Arms on January 1st, I have been battling with myself trying to work out if she was either: A) A Morrissey pessoa B) Someone Morrissey knew or C) Somebody pretending to be a Morrissey pessoa. There has never been a D)... there rarely ever is.

Right from the start, Mundane G insisted that they were  NOT a Morrissey pessoa, but as Mandy Rice-Paper once said, "he would, wouldn't he", and as Judge Pileofuntouchedsandwiches once said, "to me at least he appeared devious, truculent and unreliable where his own interests were at stake."

JUDGE JOHN WEEKS QC - IMAGE CURTESY OF MORRISSEYSWORLD

By January 12th, I had concluded that Mundane Glamour "MUST be someone Morrissey knows", and wondered if it were Linder. On January 26th, I mused if perhaps Mundane G was Kevin 'Walter Ego' Marrinan, the man who Our Mozzer once described as, "one of the so-low trolls...I pay to write nonsense all over the so-low site and do the odd internet-based jobs for me".

On February 9th, Mundane Glamour deactivated their twitter account. The very next day, after a two month absence, Our Mozzer reappeared in the guise of BRS Chairman, which pretty much confirmed to me that Mundane WAS, after all, a Morrissey pessoa. If I'm honest, I didn't think we would see Mundane again but, as I have already mentioned, yesterday evening, she returned. Here are the highlights of the evening's proceedings, which began at 8.43pm and ended at 9.49pm.

BRS CHAIR: "Imagine entering a competition for an unnamed prize. Imagine winning and the prize is free tickets to Mumford and Sons."

(Ed - I have to confess that although I have heard of Mumford and Sons, I have never heard ANY of their songs, and yet apparently they have had two Number 1 albums! I'm not quite sure how I have completely managed to avoid them, but then again, I have also managed to avoid everything to do with the Kardashians, and wouldn't recognise any of them.)

BRS CHAIR:"Imagine your mum being Denise Welch. You'd probably form a Fall Out Boy tribute act."

(Ed - I have also never heard a single song by Fall Out Boy, and wouldn't know who they were if they passed me in the street, but I do know who Denise Welch is.... but what I didn't know until I just googled her, is that her son is the lead singer of a group called The 1975; who I have also never heard a single song by, but must presume must sound like a Fall Out Boy tribute band. I sometimes wonder if I live under a rock.)

ACTRESS DENISE WELCH AND HER SON, MATT, WHO IS APPARENTLY A SINGER!

BRS CHAIR: "Do you ever get the feeling that you've been cheated? Rotten luck."
MUNDANE G: "Well that also happens a lot round here."
BRS CHAIR:"Welcome and please f*** off"
MUNDANE G: "Such a sweet reply"

MUNDANE G:"Sorry for the de-activation. I've been playing chess in my prison cell."



MUNDANE G: "Sorry, just flexing my intellectual muscle. More Bernard Cribbins than Bernard Shaw"

BRS CHAIRMAN: "Yield to the fright"

On Wednesday, the BRS Chairman popped in very briefly to The Arms to pick up on a comment made by Manc Lad. Manc Lad had left the following comment in response to OM's tweet of Tuesday about banning refugees: "@BRSChairman careful about the refugee statement the racist accusing finger is very long, it gives plebs something to do". In reply to Manc Lad, OM wrote, "race is a social construct therefore racism doesn't exist."I picked up on this comment, and said, "A very interesting and logical way to look at it, but how do you explain the actions of those such as Hitler?" OM replied, "well the Jews are not a race.."

And finally, Smiths cover star Richard Davalos has died. In Morrissey's Autobiography, Moz details how Davalos gave him a ring and sent him a number of "beautifully printed letters". There was obviously a special connection between the pair.






*Goes off singing* Dear hero imprisoned, with all the new moves that you are perfecting, oh I can't help castling you

Day 1644 - Leprosy

March 15, 2016, 9:24 am

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All has been fairly quiet over the past few days, with just a few brief appearances in The Arms by Our Mozzer.  Here are his words of wisdom and wit:

SATURDAY MARCH 12

11.26PM - "Fun, games, fun, games. Nun, shame, nun, shame. Shun, fame, shun, fame."

SUNDAY MARCH 13

11.20PM - "I wish leprosy upon Mike Joyce"

11.28pm - "Luckily he never needs to work again in his life. My only hope is that he doesn't outlive me."

MIKE JOYCE

OM had presumably brought up the subject of Joyce because earlier in the day, Joyce had tweeted to say that he had never listened to a Morrissey solo album, but agreed to listen to one for the Ram Album Club and review it; on the proviso that he didn't have to buy the album! Does Joyce really think that anyone believes that he hasn't listened to EVERY Morrissey solo album? Twat!

MONDAY MARCH 14

7.47PM - "Stephen Fry is to Oscar Wilde what Victoria Beckham is to talent"

9.13PM - In response to Marcus the Greek asking who his favourite actor is: "Morrissey circa 1982-1987"

10.01PM - "Seen things are sweet but unseen is more significant"

I replied to the last tweet by saying, "Exactly why I keep mine hidden", to which OM responded, "From what I've heard you need no help in keeping it hidden."


ME ON HOLIDAY A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO

Right, that's it! I'm off to watch the T20 Cricket World Cup and to grow a beard.... and as both the MorrisseysWorld & TWOM chatrooms have closed down, I have now created one for the BRS to use here (See below).

*Goes off singing* When I find Mike Joyce in times of trouble, Mozziah Mozzer comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, leprosy. And in Mike's hour of darkness, Moz is standing right in front of me, speaking words of wisdom, leprosy. Leprosy, leprosy, leprosy, leprosy, whisper words of wisdom, leprosy.

Day 1648 - Faces of a beautiful and secret society

March 19, 2016, 10:17 am

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This blog has been rewarded with its' very own official Morrissey t-shirt... but more about that later.

There have been a number of TTY entries over the past few days, and appearances in The Wrong Arms from the pessoas, Not Bot and Mademoiselle Fifi.

The TTY articles have covered a variety of subjects, as follows:
1) A link to a two year old story about New Zealand recognising animals as sentient beings - which is presumably in relation to Morrissey's possible London Mayor candidacy for the Animal Welfare Party
2) A photograph of a banner at Mancapitalist City Football Ground which reads ' Manchester... So Much To Answer For'
3) An article about 'Prince' William the Terrible
4) A photo montage of Marilyn Monroe by Sam Esty Rayner 
5) A photo montage of Marilyn Monroe embracing Sam by 'Steven-patrick' 
6) An article entitled 'If Prince William Were Black'
7) An article entitled 'All The Best Ones Are Dead'


MARILYN AND SAM BY 'STEVEN-PATRICK' - PRESUMABLY THE WORK OF MORRISSEY, AND FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MONTAGES BY OUR MOZZER ON THE MORRISSEYSWORLD BLOG

Yesterday's TTY article, entitled All The Best Ones Are Dead, was brought to the attention of the Dreary Deluded Dozen by Mademoiselle Fifi, who posted a link to it in The Arms (before anyone else in my timeline had tweeted it) and followed it up with another tweet that related to the article. The follow up tweet was a photo of James Dean with Richard Davalos, and  a hashtag of 'SecretSociety', which were words used in the TTY article. Here is the article in full:

"It's very difficult for me, I think, to live now, in this electronic age of atrocity. We are fed nothing but carnage and ruin, and we must digest these images and thoughts every single day ... so is it any wonder we all look slightly terrorised ... this stupid civilization of advertising, advertising, advertising ... things that nobody wants. It's hard to maintain indifference and to not respond. Finally, nothing connects with anything. Even to have imagination suddenly seems hopeless because pop music has become so impoverished and obsessed only with very, very stupid people. It's fascinating to consider how Radio One once interviewed William Burroughs! These days the program planners at Radio One would pass on William Burroughs in favor of Little Boots. So it's a bit like trying to deal with people who have nothing but actually want even less than they have. Therefore I look at Richard Davalos and James Dean not as faces from a more simplistic time, but as faces of a beautiful and secret society. You cannot say that about anyone in 2016."



The mention in the TTY article of Little Boots made me smile, because Morrissey surely meant Little Mix. Morrissey would no doubt claim that he wouldn't know the difference, but Lancastrian Victoria Hesketh aka Little Boots, is actually a talented musician, who incidentally I once saw play an excellent set at the IW Festival. Little Boots hasn't been on Radio 1 in years, as pointed out by @littleboots herself on twitter yesterday, when she tweeted, "Moz obviously hasn't listened to radio 1 recently...". I should add, that Little Mix are utter shite!

LITTLE BOOTS PERFORMING AT THE IW FESTIVAL 2010

Coincidentally, both Little Boots and William Burroughs have both previously been referenced in this blog of mine, with Little Boots's song Remedy getting a mention on Day 15, and Burroughs being quoted on Day 1106; when I referred to his quote, "In this magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen." I'm not too sure that I agree with Burroughs about accidents only happening through someone willing them, but there can only be a certain number of coincidences happen before they stop being coincidences, and become someones will...

... and on that subject, let me introduce the official Mozziah t-shirt, available from the M Porium website priced at £25, and YES, I have ordered mine already, and am deeply honoured. I can't see many of the Solowers buying one!



I posted a very similar photograph of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey just a couple of months ago, on Day 1612. This latest t-shirt CANNOT be just a coincidence, someone somewhere willed it!

There was nothing else from Mademoiselle Fifi, and the only postings from Not Bot (Not Astra's Derrière), were a couple of photos of Françoise Hardy posted on Wednesday.



In other news, it has been announced that Jack Lowden is to play the part of Morrissey in the soon-to-be-made story called Steven, about Morrissey's early life. God only knows how much of this thing will be based on fact, and how much is completely made up. No doubt a certain someone will let us know.

JACK LOWDEN

And finally, in the week that Morrissey laments the death of both pop music and connection, I travelled to Camden Roundhouse and watched Savages, which has not only convinced me that popular music does still have a pulse, but also that connections can still be made, and in fact, can be electric.... it just doesn't happen very often!







Rather ironically, the person who first introduced me to Savages back in September 2014 was.... the Morrissey pessoa Alfs Button.

Day 1650 - #MozBoz25

March 21, 2016, 9:27 am

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In early March 1991, Morrissey released his second solo studio album, Kill Uncle, and decided that after a break of four years, he was at last ready to return to touring. Morrissey put together a band consisting of rockabillies: Alain Whyte, Gary Day, Spencer Cobrin, and twenty eight year old Martin 'Boz' Boorer, and the band set about learning and rehearsing songs from Kill Uncle, along with other Morrissey compositions from the previous three years, and a few cover songs. In late April, the band hit the road.


TH' LADS AND MORRISSEY - DUNDEE MAY 1991

Fast forward twenty five years, and following the recording of eight studio albums, many singles, numerous television shows and 932 concerts, the only constant for Morrissey amongst numerous changes to band and entourage personnel, has been.... Boz!






Along the way, there have been many ups and downs, but through thick and thin, Boz has remained by Morrissey's side, whether it be in novelty t-shirts, kilts, dresses, with broken bones, or just a seven incher to protect his modesty.
















Over the past twenty five years, Boz has written the music for countless numbers of songs, 42 of which Morrissey has put words to, and we the public have gotten to hear - there may of course be more which we haven't yet heard. Choosing a favourite among those 42 is near on impossible, but as a celebration of #MozBoz25, I have decided to invite my readers (whether BRS members or not) to vote for their 10 favourites;  giving 1 pt to the 10th favourite, 2 for 9th, 3 for 8th, 4 for 7th, 5 for 6th, 6 for 5th, 7 for 4th, 8 points for 3rd favourite, and then in true Eurovision tradition, 10 points for 2nd favourite and douze point (12) for 1st. I appreciate that favourites change all the time, but voting should be based on how you feel about each song right here, right now.

I shall start the ball rolling, and will update the leader board as others vote. The frustration and guilt I feel by leaving certain songs out of my Top 10 is rather pathetic, but I expect all other voters to feel exactly the same way. So here goes: I award 1 point to Staircase At The University, 2 for Come Back To Camden, 3 for Black Cloud, 4 for Jack The Ripper, 5 points go to Speedway, 6 for Maladjusted, 7 for Oboe Concerto, 8 points for I Like You, 10 points to Now My Heart Is Full and my maximum 12 goes to The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores.

LEADER BOARD:

1. SPEEDWAY 102

2. NOW MY HEART IS FULL 98

3. MALADJUSTED 78

4. COME BACK TO CAMDEN 63



5. THE WORLD IS FULL OF CRASHING BORES 59

6. STAIRCASE AT THE UNIVERSITY 56

7. JACK THE RIPPER 55

7. ISTANBUL  55

9. THE MORE YOU IGNORE ME, THE CLOSER I GET 41

9. OBOE CONCERTO 41

11. I LIKE YOU 33



12. SCANDINAVIA 30

13. I'M THROWING MY ARMS AROUND PARIS 27

13. ACTION IS MY MIDDLE NAME 27



15. ONE DAY GOODBYE WILL BE FAREWELL 25

16. I'M NOT SORRY 24

17. WORLD PEACE IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS 18

17. SPRING-HEELED JIM 18


17. BLACK CLOUD 18

20. ART-HOUNDS 16

21. THE TEACHERS ARE AFRAID OF THE PUPILS 14

22. I CAN HAVE BOTH 13

23. LIFEGUARD SLEEPING, GIRL DROWNING 12

23. SATAN REJECTED MY SOUL 12


25. MOUNTJOY 9

26. DRAG THE RIVER 8

27. READER MEET AUTHOR 7



27. YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN NICE TO ME 7

27. HONEY, YOU KNOW WHERE TO FIND ME 7


27. I'D LOVE TO 7



31. THE PUBLIC IMAGE 6

31. THAT'S HOW PEOPLE GROW UP 6

33. JULIE IN THE WEEDS 5

34. AMMUNITION 4

35. CHRISTIAN DIOR 1

35. MEXICO 1

37. I'M PLAYING EASY TO GET 0

37. THE KID'S A LOOKER 0

37. THE SLUM MUMS 0

37. NOISE IS THE BEST REVENGE 0

37. KIT (Moz singing)  KIT (Boz singing) 0

37. YOU'VE HAD HER 0

I thank you in advance for taking part, and look forward to your votes.


BOZ PERFORMING THE MORRISSEY/BOORER COMPOSITION, COME BACK TO CAMDEN WITH THE MARIA FIDELIS GOSPEL CHOIR AT THE SWEARING IN CEREMONY FOR CAMDEN MAYOR, JONATHAN SIMPSON IN 2013