{"id":1123,"date":"2009-04-14T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/04\/the-legacy-of-morrissey.html"},"modified":"2009-04-14T08:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T15:52:00","slug":"the-legacy-of-morrissey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/04\/the-legacy-of-morrissey.html","title":{"rendered":"The Legacy of Morrissey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SeTCPapWx-I\/AAAAAAAAAN8\/N3lVoeQw-xU\/s1600-h\/mozz.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SeTCPapWx-I\/AAAAAAAAAN8\/N3lVoeQw-xU\/s400\/mozz.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a>THIS year&#8217;s coachella festival is filled with all kinds of major historical figures &#8212; not just paul mccartney but leonard cohen, the jam&#8217;s paul weller and shoegaze pioneers my bloody valentine (who i had the ear-blasting pleasure to see play last fall in santa monica).\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>one of the most influential is morrissey, the former smiths leader whose solo career finally started getting interesting a few years ago, and who has managed to generate a devoted latino fanbase \u00a0in the whitest of all musical genres.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>all kinds of unlikely figures &#8212; ryan adams, jk rowling, bono, outkast &#8212; sing his praises.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/la-et-morrissey14-2009apr14,0,6380169.story\">HERE<\/a> is my story in today&#8217;s LAT on mozz and his influence. i hear him or the smiths everytime i hear the shins, the pains of being pure of heart, belle &#038; sebastian, of montreal, the clientele, many others. and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wzpynvxr7tA\">here<\/a> is a live take of &#8220;first of the gang to die.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>i had the fortune, or misfortune, to be in high school right in the middle of the &#8217;80s. tho i am neither gay nor latino nor a recovering catholic, the smiths spoke to me like no other contemporary band during that dreadful and jingoistic time. (okay, maybe r.e.m.) in college i would sometimes go to halloween parties dressed like him.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>i am such a zealot i went to manchester, england &#8212; one of the world&#8217;s most important rock cities and mozz&#8217;s hometown &#8212; two years ago to walk in the footsteps of the smiths, buzzcocks, stone roses, etc. <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.latimes.com\/articles\/la-trw-manchester1jul01\">HERE<\/a> is the ensuing travel piece, and <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.latimes.com\/articles\/la-trw-manchestersound1jul01\">here<\/a> the top-10 manchester albums sidebar.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>mozz celebrates his 50th birthday with a big concert in manchester on may 22&#8230; were it not my anniversary (that was an accident &#8212; really) and were i not quasi-employed i would try to be there.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photo credit: Flickr user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/paigekparsons\/3232522296\/\">gussifer<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS year&#8217;s coachella festival is filled with all kinds of major historical figures &#8212; not just paul mccartney but leonard cohen, the jam&#8217;s paul weller and shoegaze pioneers my bloody valentine (who i had the ear-blasting pleasure to see play last fall in santa monica).\u00a0 one of the most influential is morrissey, the former smiths [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165,367,88,40,352,517,38,182,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-80s","7":"category-airborne-toxic-event","8":"category-brit-culture","9":"category-indie","10":"category-morrissey","11":"category-peter-bjorn-and-john","12":"category-rock-music","13":"category-smiths","14":"category-west-coast","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}