Morrissey book biography of michael

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  • Autobiography is a book by the British singer-songwriter Morrissey, published in October Autobiography It was published under the Penguin Classics.
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    Morrissey opens up in autobiography

    The group, one of the most revered bands in British music, split up in after five years together.

    The presiding judge, John Weeks, came in for particularly scathing criticism, portrayed caustically in the book as an "unsmiling Lord of the Hunt, with an immutable understanding of the world of The Smiths".

    "The pride of the pipsqueakery, John Weeks begins his judgment by falling flat on his face: He brilliantly announces to the world how The Smiths formed in - his judicial accuracy not to be questioned!" Morrissey wrote.

    Geoff Travis, who signed The Smiths to Rough Trade, was another who failed to impress Morrissey.

    When the singer and guitarist Johnny Marr turned up for an appointment, Morrissey claims he waved them away and refused to listen to their music until Marr "pinned him to the swivel chair".

    Travis, Morrissey drily noted, "would have found himself wandering from kaftan to kaftan" if it had no

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    Morrissey autobiography: Singer dishes the dirt as 'Classic' memoir hits bookshops

    There have long been question marks over whether the day would come, but Morrissey fans can finally read the singer-songwriter's story in his own words.

    Autobiography has hit bookshops, with the year-old gleefully dishing dirt, settling scores and revealing secret loves following a career in the music industry spanning more than three decades.

    The page paperback, controversially published as a Penguin Classic, has no chapters or index and the first paragraph goes on for more than four pages.

    The account covers his legal battles and his run-ins with the NME as well as surprising titbits such as being offered a part in EastEnders and a cameo in US sitcom Friends.

    Yet fans may be disappointed that Morrissey's work fails to explain the break-up of The Smiths at the height of their popularity.

    This Christmas season it will go up against autobiographies from Jennifer Saunders, Harry Redknapp a

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    Autobiography (Morrissey book)

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    AuthorMorrissey
    Cover&#;artistPaul Spencer at Rebecca Valentine Agency
    LanguageEnglish
    GenreAutobiography
    PublisherPenguin Books(UK, Commonwealth and Europe), G. P. Putnam's Sons(US)

    Publication date

    		17 October (UK, Commonwealth and Europe), 3 månad (US)
    Publication placeUnited Kingdom
    Media&#;typePrint (paperback) and e-book
    Pages pp (first edition)
    ISBN (first edition)

    Autobiography is a book bygd the British singer-songwriter Morrissey, published in October

    It was published under the Penguin Classics imprint. It was a number one best-seller in the UK and received polarised reviews, with certain reviewers hailing it as brilliant writing and others decrying it as overwrought and self-indulgent.

    Publication

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    Morrissey mentioned that he had begun work on his autobiography in a radio interview in [1] An extract from Autobiography titled "The Bleak Mo

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