Morrissey really seriously ill?

Morrissey has cancelled his U.S. tour because he has double pneumonia. He says that he hopes that this is not the end and that there will be other chances. Anyone know how serious this illness really is?

lean got im swervin

Dear Morrissey . . .
Morrissey

It's pretty serious if you're elderly, but I think Morrissey might being a tad dramatic. Hope he gets better though!

pneumonia can kill at any age, worrying for Mozzer IMO

My uncle, who's about the same age as Morrissey, has had pneumonia since December and has been in and out of hospital ever since. It can be pretty nasty.

damn! that's a serious bummer! I hope he pulls through.

I knew a healthy 20yr old who died of it, so yes.

A bloke at work went down with pneumonia and left me with the hospital pass from hell, but he recovered completely over the weekend.

wow, get well Morrissey!

perhaps some red meat in his diet might help the path to recovery

Washed down with the fresh blood of a virgin

:(

idk what effect well wishes from the internet can have on pneumonia, but just in case i'll send a double portion to sharivari's uncle and yknow fuck morrissey

Jeez guys

according to Cliff Richard, Morrissey is still in hospital after cancelling his US tour.

People on the Morrissey Solo forums talk about Moz having a more serious illness that I won't bother to name here but the recurring, serious bouts of bad health do make me concerned.

Yeah I get concerned as well, better check the Morrissey Solo forums tonight just to make sure the cunt isn't dead or hasn't mistakenly been buried alive.

Hope the rumors aren't true

This is one racist arsewipe I will not be sad to see getting planted.

People who think Morrissey is racist are always thick as fuck

but not too thick to read his history of saying racist stuff

its a tight line

Smart ppl know that calling the Chinese a "subspecies" cannot possibly be racist if the person saying it has written some songs

Great conversation guys

Eh he's a horrible person and his apologists are some of the worst ppl alive, I'm not a fan of serious illness ftr even if it stops morrissey saying things which is unequivocally a positive

Good reading from Racialicious

www.racialicious.com/2013/03/26/confessions-of-a-black-morrissey-fan/. Hope that works.

http://www.racialicious.com/2013/03/26/confessions-of-a-black-morrissey-fan/

Eh he's a horrible person and his apologists are some of the worst ppl alive

haha i know we speak in hyperbole on here but damn

outta like 7 billion or w/e there's gotta be 3, 4bn we could do without. Morrissey fans could slot in there without a hitch.

But who would buy the albums?

And who would make the non-cover versions?

Yeah that was meant as morrissey-style hyperbole without the genuine bigotry that makes him so lovable, obv there are worse ppl in the world but I'm still gonna say ugh those guys are the worst

i still like him
i dunno
but i get why ppl hate him
his personality has been so terrible for decades
i like the songs though, or the old ones
but yeah a lot of the stuff he's done in recent years is indefensible

As someone who dislikes Strangeways, the vast majority of Morrissey's solo career was already unpalatable to me musically; the indefensible shit he's said on the side is piss icing on the shit cake.

Xp Yeah I know some of his stuff means a lot to some ppl, I wasn't gonna add to x's kool-aid man itt cause it's hardly my concern if ppl are bummed out by a racist singer being unwell be it morrissey or clapton, assertions that he's a misunderstood victim deserve mockery tho

nah he never cops to anything that's the frustrating thing

feel like he was always that way then that dumb lawsuit just made him completely ridiculous about everything and bitter

the indefensible shit he's said

"All The Indefensible Shit You've Said" was a pretty good b-side i thought

“England is a memory now,” the singer remarked, “The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in.”

just need to get my "titan of intellect" PaulTMA head on to wheedle out the non-racist meaning of a quote like this. Obviously it is very nuanced and all but hidden from the "thick as fuck" types who take this as a typical Mosleyite/UKIP/BNP type statement.

I don't have piss cakes in my bakery but I do have:

http://www.lolhome.com/img_big/shitty-cake.jpg

"All The Indefensible Shit You've Said" was his collaboration wit t.A.T.u IIRC

nah was the killers I'm sure

Was he always racist or was this a mid-life development?

"Bengali In Platforms" goes back to 1988, so

apparently this all started in 1985

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrissey#Accusations_of_racism

He said reggae was vile in the 80's and later tried to dismiss it as a joke as he signed to Attack records, suddenly he was a massive Trojan fan.

thread title makes me picture morrissey in a tracksuit and fat chains on.

all up in kfc trying to order a boca burger.

Morrissey, "My Agitas"

boy racist, boy racist / we're gonna kill this pretty thing

I have a headache today, really wanted to formulate a better post but gave up - question still sort of serious though, like, I'm still curious to know if I should keep on sympathizing with Moz/defend him or if he's just no longer a v cool person

it's actually an interesting question because what's good in his work is a sense of humanity and decency, but what's bad in both the work & in the public self (which we have to assume reflects himself: the one who answers questions for interviewers is not just a construct, he's not playing a part to be critiqued while holding opinions to the contrary of the things he says, etc) is really super gross, unkind, uncharitable, mean and petty. since his body of work is the construction of a public self, the question "what happened to you?" is pretty fair imo -- but I think, you know, the stuff that made him rich and that almost everybody has to confess some affection for is pretty heavily narcissistic stuff, stuff that glorifies the speaker and excludes anything like dialogue: Morrissey's work is a man expressing his opinions, often not even about his experiences but about the stuff he thought about while sitting around in his room. but "a man alone with his thoughts is in bad company" after a while -- an idealistic teenager may think "people ought to be nice to animals" or "the royal family, what horseshit" but the same man, having been repeatedly told by others & by his bank account that he's just a stellar dude, may (and does) think some pretty shitty thoughts, which he'll also then share in the hopes of being praised some more, and will then be resentful, like a child, when the people who feed him stop applauding his use of the potty

tl;dr this is what happens when you decline to mature after adolescence but still have a microphone

All that is so, probably.

It was striking for me that on his last album it took until track three (I think) for him to make reference to himself.

List of the Lost is, by some large distance, the worst book I have ever read. So sad to see the man who was the most gifted lyricist of his generation – someone who combined past and present to create his own wholly recognisable world – descend to this.

Joan, that's an excellent post. Also, doesn't he bore himself going on about the monarchy, vegetarianism, The royals & Oscar Wilde over and over again for 40+ years?

Morrissey is, like Prince, such a rarified and private personality that I've heard next to nothing about him as a person, and even when I have, it raises more questions than it answers. The most "human" thing I've heard is that he and his bandmates play soccer together all the time, which is not unlike stories of people playing basketball with Prince. Other than that, the "real" Morrissey seems to be on double-secure lockdown.

For that matter, he seems like such the opposite of indie bro Marr that I can't tell if Morrissey has changed, Marr has changed, or if their opposite nature is what somehow made them such strong collaborators in the first place.

I read a review of the book today saying at least the jury for the Bad Sex Award would only have to read one book this year :(

Joanie very otm

I enjoyed the autobiography tbh, at least the first 2/3rds of it or so. but bro has not aged well.

For that matter, he seems like such the opposite of indie bro Marr that I can't tell if Morrissey has changed, Marr has changed, or if their opposite nature is what somehow made them such strong collaborators in the first place.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, September 25, 2015 9:39 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in There Is A Light That Never Goes out, you def get the impression that Marr was always like that, very outgoing, good at "networking", ambitious and affable, "one of the lads"

like he just naturally gets along w/ppl sounds like

Was List of the Lost ghostwritten by Tom Watson?

I wonder if Moz can possibly be surprised at the critical reception, and how he's taking it

Morrissey really mentally ill? is a better question.

Looking forward to Moz/Franzen collabo.

J/k

For some reason, I get the feeling the whole thing is a contractual obligation.

Like, Moz has to write the book so he's written something bonkers.

And now the publisher has to publish it.

i doubt that but it does make you wonder if he had a contractual stipulation not to have an editor because no editor worth their salt and none working for penguin main-line would let that through, surely.

You know that review of 1066 and all that, "Quotation is hopeless, every sentence clamours for it" ?

Change Quotation for "Excision", ...

i understand what you mean, i think but:

Rare is the writer who is willing to complain that the big problem with Churchill during the war was that he was, frankly, a bit of a coward and unwilling to try to identify with the people he governed, but Morrissey is that writer. “Churchill himself would experience World War 2 safely and in a suite of rooms at Claridge’s most luxurious Mayfair hotel, with not a complicated twitch or pang to trouble his elaborate evening meal.” We’ll leave aside the fact that he makes it sound like Claridge’s is a chain, with the Mayfair branch simply its most upscale outpost – “Yeah, I was going to go stop at the Travelodge, but I got a deal on the Claridge’s at Peterborough services” – and instead note that the entire passage reads like a polemic written by a particularly single-minded street corner pamphleteer (see also Morrissey’s writing about the pernicious power of, wait for it, local television news. Damn you, Look North, with your hegemony!).

no editor would have let "a suite of rooms at Claridge’s most luxurious Mayfair hotel," slip through the net unless they were terrified of moz or a fanboy and therefore not a good editor (if there was one, as i said).

i would love one for my posts and i do need one, as you can tell.

My drive to work is too long and I often ponder about things, sometimes to get my brain away from "work".

Anyway, partly triggered by that Daily Mail banner headline that seemed to be suggesting the deaths of David Bowie and Terry Wogan as some kind of competition and partly influenced by enjoying a Best of Morrissey ... I found myself pondering Morrissey's obituaries. How will he be described? Will he appear on the front pages of newspapers, aside from the Guardian and Independent?

(Its been a while since I played any Morrissey and I was struck by how odd/quirky/creative much of it was).

jangle pop militant vegan crank

front page of the LA Times

Minor cult figure snuffs it

'List of the Lost' Author Dies In Double-Decker Bus Incident

Gay racist trampled by thankless beef cattle

complete twat snoozled in sleepland

Rupert Everett dies

Followed by apology,clarification

"Now Morrissey dies"

Smiths reunion tour ends tragically (before it ever really began, but in my heart it was so real).

"Morrissey tour dates cancelled"

don't you ever crave
to appear on the front of the Daily Mail?

Meatus Murdered

World Mourns 'You're The One for Me, Fatty' Hitmaker

Mozz Takes Aging Badly to Next Level

The Death Of A Racist Chancer
Heaven Is Miserable Now
etc

Petty Mozz Makes Grave

He Can Feel The Soil Falling Over His Head.

He wished to be buried at seasick

Mozz Takes Aging Badly to Next Level

― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, February 5, 2016 3:06 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is amazing.

i posted speedway on facebook today because it is a beautiful song but it didn't get any likes. feel worried that my fb friends think i am endorsing racism

like, not that worried, but a little worried

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/6a/73/c7/6a73c73d5db0f35cc5c45b1d3a20335f.jpg

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2019/04/13/morrissey-medical-emergency-accident-canada-concerts-postoned/?fbclid=IwAR0YmKpEcg3maQgXfsIwhAXobuJR7mjYWXY3cz8_SzflhuXKJVRgS8ih0TQ

doing Sieg Heil salutes at his age can really throw your shoulder out

“Due to a medical emergency stemming form an accident incurred while traveling in Europe,

what did Europe do now?

Jean-Claude Juncker glassed Mozzer.

the seem week yakety yak made a pissed up prick out of himself in Prague, hmm.

I think you've cracked it... which is what "Tommy" said to Moz when he slipped on Tommy's puke and fell headfirst into the toilet bowl in that Czech hotel room.

> Fans on Reddit noted that after playing ‘Hand in Glove’, taken from The Smiths’ 1984 debut album, he “instantly went into talking about enemies”. In a video shared by fans on Instagram, Morrissey is seen launching into a tirade about having enemies he described as “extremely weak”.

Morrisey really seriously illing.