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davidt
on Thursday October 30 2003, @10:00AM
Mark sends the press release:
The first chapter from Mark Simpson's 'psycho-bio' of the real 'saint of the gutters' will be serialised in this weekend's TALK OF THE TOWN magazine supplement with (UK national newspaper) the INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY (2/11/03). Twenty years on from the release of 'This Charming Man', the song that ruined his life, Simpson tells in this extract the story of how he and a whole generation of vulnerable teenagers in the early 1980s were abducted by Morrissey's genius. And why he wouldn't have it any other way. SAINT MORRISSEY is published in a rather lovely large-format hardback by SAF on 10 November at £16.99 www.marksimpson.com
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Simpson's "Saint Morrissey" serialised in the Independent on Sunday (Nov. 2)
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I've already got it! (Score:0)
Preorders from www.marksimpson.com (Score:1)
Could anyone from the US tell me if they've received their pre-ordered copy yet? There really wasn't a firm ship date mentioned on his site.
Cheers,
Jamie
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and what about the others? (Score:0)
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Where? (Score:1)
Is it me?
Anyone else find it?
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Talk of the town extract (Score:0)
Anyone read the entire book?
Re:Talk of the town extract (Score:2, Informative)
So far, I'm quite enjoying it - IMHO he's a much better writer than Rogan or Goddard - but then it's a completely different type of book. His sources are largely confined to Morrissey's lyrics and interviews. This can give you the feeling that you're just reading an unusually lucid, invective-free (mostly) discussion forum posting. On the other hand, I think his decision to avoid a re-tread of the expected tired arguments - the Smiths management woes, the breakup, the royalties dispute etc. - was the correct one.
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Re-write? (Score:1)
One way to look at Simpson's book, is to see it as the account of someone outside Morrissey's golden inner circle i.e. this is not a book called for example 'Our Friendship Analysed' by Ms. L Sterling-Bracewell, cataloging in intimate detail a 'the-two-peas-in-a-pod' lifelong connection forged with Morrissey back in 1976.
Instead it is a rather subjective reminiscence of someone who was deeply affected by Morrissey over the past twenty years but who never actually met him, and has no 'suck&sell' story to flog to the the sunday tabloids.
Simpson doesn't have anything new to say about Morrissey that has not been written already, but his book is not a lesser tome for that matter. Simpson by virtue of the fact that he is the outsider's outsider himself and has lead rather interesting chequered life, inadvertently manages to capture the body and soul of Morrissey/The Smiths in his prose - both in content and style.
This is a companion book to the Severed Alliance - Simpson compliments Rogan's obsessive fact finding with whimsy, wit and unashamed nostalgia.
The bit in 'TOTT' about how his contemporaries survived the dole in 80's Manchester by living an energy saving/slowed down existance i.e. everyday is a duvet day, was a real hoot. If there is more of that kind of humour in the subsequent chapters then I'm sure this book will sell a respectable number of copies.
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