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Monday May 22, 06
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02:24 AM - HAPPY BIRTHDAY MORRISSEY!
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A LITTLE TRIBUTE........
When I was 17 I didn't have a SHIT-LOAD of cash.....don't have a SHIT-LOAD of cash now actually! I couldn't afford to buy many records but I had a little radio cassette recorder thingy and I used to listen to The John Peel Show late at night on Radio One in my bedroom when my parents were asleep ( I would have the volumne down real low so as not to wake them) If I liked the sound of something or recognized the name of a band I had read of in the NME or somewhere I would press the little black PLAY button and the little red RECORD button similtanously and record the track for prosperity on a cassette tape.
This was how I discovered The Smiths....late at night under the duvet...and the first song I recorded was Reel Around The Fountain....the rest as they say IS HISTORY. That song had such an effect on me I look back now and I swear I didn't leave the house for a FUCKING week. The music was of course amazing but it was the lyrics and the vocal that really grabbed me....I knew on that dark night in my room that I had found, musically at least, the thing I had been looking for for so long.
Since that day 22 years have passed. I have been a student and a worker, a wife and now a mother. I have loved, I have lost, I have burried both my parents, I have been happy, I have been sad and all the things in between and the one constant in all of this has been Morrissey. I have brought the records, been to the shows, brought the books and the t-shirts. I have flirted with other types of music sure, other bands, other singers but it always comes back to HIM. It has always been HIM.
I am certain that whether I had found HIM or not my life would have turned out pretty much the same.....even Morrissey does not have the power to change history, well not MY history anyway. It is just that without HIM the "downs" would have been so much worse and the "ups" would have been.... well....less "up" if you know what I mean.
I never knew on that dark night under the duvet that I had found such a loyal and constant friend...how could I have known? People, places, possessions, they come and go, but not HIM.....HE is always there. Sometimes, like last Wednesday in Reading, he is at the forefront and other times HE is in the background...but HE never leaves me......how very fortunate I am.....blessed you might say.
He is as important to me now as he ever was. He looks and sounds as incredible as ever. He is never bland, never plain and I am never ever complacent. He always challenges me, inspires me, excites me. He makes me laugh....and he makes me cry. Without HIM I wouldn't die.....I just wouldn't be so alive. To know HIM is to love HIM.....the pleasure and the priviledge is mine.
Thank you Morrissey.....and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Love Alma xxx
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Happy birthday Morrissey, and thank you!