Morrissey in His Own Words - John Robertson

'If Prince came from Wigan,' suggests a young Steven Patrick Morrissey in 1986. 'He would have been slaughtered by now.' There is much more in this vein in Morrissey In His Own Words, first published in 1988 and a 90 page collection/compilation of quotes by the infamously eccentric singer mostly taken from his halcyon days as lead vocalist of indie darlings The Smiths. Although Morrissey's musings here seem rather tame today at times it appears that he was public enemy number one as far as the British tabloids went for a year or two in the eighties with his outspoken comments on everything from the Royal Family to Margaret Thatcher to the evils of the blood splattered ...  Read the complete review