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Rolling Stone - Italy .

HEAVEN KNOWS HE'S STILL MISERABLE

MORRISSEY'S 14TH SOLO album finds him wearing all his favorite guises: eternal romantic, tireless crank, fragile old soul, free-speech martyr, rock-nostalgia torchbearer, heavenly miserablist. He's claimed that his years of controversial right-leaning political utterances have made it hard for him to find a label to release the record, his first in six years. (He ended up on Sire, which put out the Smiths and his early solo work.) The nadir is the shallow disco shitpost "Notre Dame," which floats the xenophobic conspiracy theory that the 2019 fire that destroyed Notre-Dame cathedral was the result of an uninvestigated terrorist attack. Mostly, he avoids dicey subject matter for solid autobiographical songwriting — see "Lester Bangs" — and, less happily, sullen self-pity. He's canceled a slew of tour dates due to health issues, and on "Headache," he offers an assessment of mortality that's morose even for him: "Man born of woman has a short time to...

The Grauniad 22.02.2026, M's favourite publication ,A reminder of how careless I was’: from cringe cartoons to cancelled rockstars, the tattoos fans regret

Excerpt:

On 20 February 2012, Coté Arias met Morrissey at a fan meet-up in Santiago, Chile. The former Smiths frontman signed her forearm in spiky capitalised lettering, which Coté later had traced permanently on to her skin with ink. Her years-long plan for the tattoo, which had started with her founding Morrissey’s Chilean fanclub, had worked. “Morrissey had such an impact on me growing up,” she says. “I struggled with shyness and lacked confidence for much of my life, and his lyrics helped me feel seen while transitioning into adulthood.”

But in recent years, that inked signature has taken on more complicated associations for Coté. “The tattoo is very visible,” she says, “so it’s brought up many...

photographs by Carl Neyroud

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