Another year of Morrissey playing shows, canceling shows, and not releasing an album is coming to an end.His self-proclaimed “best album” Bonfire Of Teenagers has been in the works since 2020, but he’s said no one will release it because of its controversial title track and because free speech is “criminalized.” He’s also been marding with Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, as the former bandmates exchanged statements about the notion of a reunion tour and a reissue.
He also fired his management.And today Morrissey’s mad at Wikipedia.
Taking to his official site, Moz has posted a missive under the title “Madness”: That worked.Someone has already slightly edited Morrissey‘s and the Nosebleeds‘ Wikis.
But is the singer’s claim accurate? The story of the short-lived Manchester punk band the Nosebleeds (previously Ed Banger And The Nosebleeds) was recounted in Johnny Rogan’s Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance.In the 1992 book, Stephen Pomfret, a mutual friend of Steven Morrissey and Johnny Marr who was there when the two future Smiths met in May 1982, discussed Moz replacing Ed Banger in the band at the same time future Cult guitarist Billy Duffy replaced Vin Reilly.
“I tried to persuade Morrissey to buy some equipment because we were spending a fortune on guitars and amplifiers,” Pomfret said.“He bought a microphone for £8.
I thought, ‘That’s not quite what I had in mind, Steven!’ He said, ‘That’s all I can afford!’” In the book Morrissey is credited with writing lyrics for the songs “The Living Jukebox,” “Toytown Massacre,” and “(I Think) I’m Ready For The Electric Chair.” Other accounts also mention a song he wrote called “Peppermint Heaven.” According to Duffy’s own website, the new lineup of the Nosebleeds played a total of two local gigs, in 1978, performing the aforementioned new songs.These would have been Morrissey’s first public performances.
The second and final...