Morrissey

Du groupe The Smiths à la carrière solo de Morrissey, cette biographie retrace le parcours du chanteur et parolier britannique, des premiers soubresauts du punk anglais jusqu'à ses concerts à Las Vegas. L'auteur dépeint un personnage surprenant et clivant, toujours resté fidèle à ses convictions en prônant le végétarisme ou en s'écartant de la pop de son temps.

Dick Morrissey - It's Morrissey, Man! (1961) {Emarcy Redial CD 558 701-2 rel 1998}
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Jazz / Post Bop / Saxophone

Saxophonist Dick Morrissey towered among the finest and most innovative British jazz musicians of his generation when he teamed with guitarist Jim Mullen to spearhead the UK fusion movement of the 1970s. Born May 9, 1940 in Horley, England, Morrissey taught himself the clarinet at age 16, later mastering all of the saxophones and the flute. In his late teens, while apprenticing as a jeweler, he played with the Original Climax Jazz Band, followed by a stint in trumpeter Gus Galbraith's septet, where alto saxophonist Pete King introduced Morrissey to his chief inspiration, Charlie Parker. Tenor saxophone remained his weapon of choice for years to follow, and as he gravitated to bebop. Morrissey formed his own quartet in the spring of 1960 and cut his debut LP, It's Morrissey, Man!, the following year.

Morrissey - Swords (2009) {2CD Set Polydor-Decca Music Limited Edition 5322207}
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Rock / Alternative / Indie Rock / Alternative Pop

Deluxe two CD edition featuring a bonus CD that includes eight live tracks recorded on his 2009 tour. 2009 release from the former Smiths frontman, a fantastic collection of B-sides, all hand-picked by Morrissey, available together on one CD for the first time. Swords draws B-sides from many of the singles taken from You Are The Quarry, Ringleader Of The Tormentors, Greatest Hits and Years Of Refusal. Although these tracks were originally released as B-sides, heard together and alongside each other on this CD they sound superb as a collection in their own right. The album is a wonderful journey through some of Morrissey's lesser-heard tracks recorded over the last five years.

Digitally remastered and expanded edition of his 1997 album, now completely re-sequenced by Morrissey and including four bonus tracks. Produced by the legendary Steve Lillywhite, Maladjusted contains some of Morrissey's most underrated and superb songs. From the opening title track, with its intimidating, swirling sonic attack, to the beautiful torch songs ['Ambitious Outsiders', 'Trouble Loves Me' and 'Wide To Receive'], this is one of his most diverse and interesting records; and features the hit singles 'Satan Rejected My Soul', a blistering return to the glam-rock of earlier and the upbeat 'Alma Matters'. Also includes the controversial 'Sorrow Will Come In The End' [withdrawn from the British album], which features Morrissey intoning, rather than singing, over a backing of manic strings and the beat of a judge's gavel - the song clearly about his bitter royalties dispute!