The Smiths & Morrissey thread

[mrtwiceaseason]

Great turnout on the Leeds side streets.......
The media and record industry may try and cancel him..... but the public still love The Man
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They were there for The slow Readers Club mate ,he was just the support band :+)

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Great turnout on the Leeds side streets.......
The media and record industry may try and cancel him..... but the public still love The Man
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Things turn full circle in such a strange way. 37 years since I last saw The Smiths live in Manchester, my daughter was at this last night at exactly the same age that I was then.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Why have people tried cancelling him? Is it just because he’s said some things about the chinese On their eating of animals and halal meat?

Because he's a massive dick with far right, nationalist, arguably racist opinions.

I was a Smiths fan and still am. What I dislike about the man is the way he hid his homosexuality in the 1980s. In the position he was in, if he had any guts, he could have been a role model for gay teenagers who were mostly still in hiding back in those days.

 

[BL2blue]

I was there last night and he was brilliant, as were his band.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Because he's a massive dick with far right, nationalist, arguably racist opinions.

I was a Smiths fan and still am. What I dislike about the man is the way he hid his homosexuality in the 1980s. In the position he was in, if he had any guts, he could have been a role model for gay teenagers who were mostly still in hiding back in those days.

I don't think he hid it. It was all there in the lyrics.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I don't think he hid it. It was all there in the lyrics.

It was hidden there but he did hide it. He should have come out and used his position to help others. Obviously his sexuality and it's declaration is his own responsibility but I believe he could have used it for so much good.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

It was hidden there but he did hide it. He should have come out and used his position to help others. Obviously his sexuality and it's declaration is his own responsibility but I believe he could have used it for so much good.

Freddie Mercury, George Michael, Michael Stipe - and many more all hid it, yet non wrote more about it than Morrissey

 

[roman totale]

I was today years old (as the kids say) when I learnt that Michael Stipe was gay.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Freddie Mercury, George Michael, Michael Stipe - and many more all hid it, yet non wrote more about it than Morrissey

He could have owned it. He hid it. Doesn’t matter about anyone else, and he had the ear of the students and the insular and misfits. An area with a lot of closets at the time.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I was today years old (as the kids say) when I learnt that Michael Stipe was gay.

Same here. Thought he was a right shagger.

Edit: oh no, that was Hutchins