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Steven Patrick Morrissey, professionally known as Morrissey, is a british singer and lyricist born in Davyhulme, Greater Manchester on May 22, 1959.

He was the lead singer of The Smiths, one of the most influential alternative bands in the 1980s. The group split up in 1987 and Morrissey started a successful solo career.

Morrissey is often noted as one of the key pop lyricists of his generation, with many subsequent artists hailing his influence. Themes on which he has touched include child murder, gang violence, domestic violence, prostitution, racism, drug use, homosexuality, disability, assassination, and terrorism. A celebration of the outsider is a constant theme throughout his work.

His first solo album was released in 1988 and was entitled Viva Hate. It was followed by Bona Drag (1990), Kill Uncle (1991), the Mick Ronson-produced Your Arsenal (1992), a live album Beethoven Was Deaf (1993), Vauxhall and I (1994), Southpaw Grammar (1995) and Maladjusted (1997).
Morrissey also recorded a one-off single with the singer Siouxsie : they both sang in duet on Interlude.

A period of musical inactivity followed in the late 90s and early 2000s, which was due to failure in finding a suitable label, according to a 2004 interview with Jools Holland. After seven years without a new album release, You Are the Quarry was released on May 17, 2004 (but one day later in the USA). The first single,

Irish Blood, English Heart, was released internationally on May 10, 2004. The single reached number three in its first week of sales in the UK singles chart.

1	First of the Gang to Die	2,071
2	Suedehead	2,067
3	Everyday Is Like Sunday	2,060
4	You Have Killed Me full track	1,974
5	Irish Blood, English Heart full track	1,950
6	Let Me Kiss You full track	1,532
7	I Have Forgiven Jesus full track	1,193
8	The Last of the Famous International Playboys	1,056
9	The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get	942
10	The Youngest Was The Most Loved full track	940
11	I Just Want To See The Boy Happy full track	795
12	I Like You full track	770
13	November Spawned a Monster	747
14	That's How People Grow Up	740
15	The World Is Full of Crashing Bores full track	691

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Viva Hate
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Lieberdog wrote:
yesterday afternoon

JohnnyArvik: rockabilly legend, founder of The Polecats, Boz Boorer plays with Moz for 17 years. How do you think whether he knows how to rock'n'roll or not?) You simply don't know Moz's music enough, you think that it's like indie stuff (which personaly I hate). It's kinda different thing, he's got style of his own. P.S. KISS is OK and Pantera is cool)

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luibald wrote:
yesterday morning

awesome man. Yeahi!!!!!

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anawynn wrote:
yesterday evening

new album delayed !

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JohnnyArvik wrote:
Thursday afternoon

vanitycentral: I have my own personal taste okey, do you think youre intelligent just because you listen to Morrissey? At least KISS knows how to rock n' roll so fuck you

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LadyPatience wrote:
Thursday afternoon

Get your facts straight before you spam. Idiot. As I am here I may as well say I love Morrissey!

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storvikarn wrote:
Thursday morning

her? they?

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Riley86852 wrote:
Thursday morning

they are amazing. I love her songs so much. If you want to get more songs, try here http://westsounds.com/Morrissey/music/1342

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Lieberdog wrote:
Thursday morning

I'll download it. This would be fair))))

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YuriBR wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

Are you buying the Warner DVD? :D I'm not.

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pjfrankophone wrote:
Tuesday evening

http://www.last.fm/group/English+Eccentrics

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SoRuthless wrote:
Tuesday evening

Corblimeyguvnor & FootToFace: learn to spell right dear children. your ignorance and idiocy is showing. therefore, you have no right to push Morrissey down.

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Dreamfall wrote:
Tuesday afternoon

i frakkin love this new picture

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forgetmenot wrote:
Tuesday morning

S-T-E-V-E-N

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pipumastah wrote:
Monday afternoon

And KISS doesn't have anything to do with Morrissey so cut it off.

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oldfuzz_ wrote:
7 days ago

KISS is better than Pulp at least.

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vanitycentral wrote:
7 days ago

Johnny Avrik, you listen to KISS, what foundations do you have to make immature comments like that? Get some taste.

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JohnnyArvik wrote:
7 days ago

when i slip in what dogs have left in the street, i always say "Whoops, I've trod on an Morrissey."

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FootToFace wrote:
8 days ago

Last of the famous international gayboys more like. Amirite guys?[2]

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yvesREGULATOR wrote:
9 days ago

corbiluglgghh, maturity level of a three year old.

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tape_tv wrote:
9 days ago

Noch mehr Videos von Morrissey gibts auf tape.tv http://www.tape.tv/artist/morrissey Viel Spaß beim Angucken!

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