TheSlider writes:

This month's Mojo magazine has an exclusive article about The Smiths during The Queen Is Dead period. It includes interviews with Johnny Marr and Andy Rourke and is at least 13 pages long. Also in this amazing edition are 6 pages on Morrissey during his tour in the U.S in 1992, some very nice pictures which haven't been shown before and then finally a four page interview with the man himself, in which he mentions nearly signing to Ark 21 records and the possibility that he may recruit Moby to produce his next opus.

Out now, with 23 pages devoted to The Smiths and Morrissey, it's a must!
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Note: I believe the interview here is similar to the one that appeared in Soma Magazine ("Nine Perfect Minutes With Morrissey" by Jaan Uhelszki) a few months ago. From what I hear, Morrissey was not aware that the phone call would turn out to be an interview, its original intent was to get some quotes about Snake River Conspiracy for Rolling Stone. So, those of you who doubted the Soma interview ever took place may be partially correct.

Greg Dean Schmitz writes:

The cameo role of Morrissey in Michael Winterbottom's "24 Hour Party People" has been cast, to newcomer James Cartwright.

The site has a photo of Cartwright as Morrissey; and it's well, pretty dreadful. I suspect I'm not going to be the first fan to say "Ew" on sight of that photo. Hmmm. What's up with the hair? He looks like Kramer from "Seinfeld."

Having said that, I've got high hopes for the film, which sounds interesting... spanning the history of Factory Records and the Hacienda. All current events are eventually history, I guess.
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Images/bio from the above link, "24 hour Party People" cameo corner:

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punchdrunkUK writes:

While looking through TIMES MAGAZINE I found an article about photographer Roger Mayne and there was a few pics from STREET CULTURE - of the children of North Kensington Street in 1959.

One of the pics was of my screen saver from Morrissey solo (used by Morrissey during the 1997 tour) of the two boys kicking the football and they had a "what are they doing know" section and there he is JOHN SANZ who is married with three kids in Ruislip West London and works as a foreman for a building firm.

He said, "I've no memory of the pics been taken. I only found out about 15 years ago, when I saw the photos in the Evening Standard"

• Related item: Roger Mayne - Photographs - released March 1, 2001 (link to Amazon.co.uk)

Dan B. Perl writes:

Jonathan Coe, the author of a novel with a narrative arc signposted by Smiths lyrics (on which a film which was mentioned in this forum was based) has a new book out. Since The Rotters' Club (the first of a two-parter separated by twenty years) is set in the '70s, it is, strictly speaking, a Morrissey-free zone, instead using prog-rock such as Hatfield & the North (soundtracking the characters' hopes and social justice) and "dole-queue rock" (i.e., punk, soundtracking their violent ends).

However, certain readers (of a type familiar to this forum) have spotted Morrissey's presence in a more subtle way. Or at least, this joker did during an online chat hosted by the London & Manchester Guardian:

DavidBar - 02:02pm Mar 6, 2001 BST
This is ludicrously tenuous I know, but I see your novels as parallels of Smiths albums. Accidental Woman: The Smiths. Dwarves: Hatful. Touch of Love: Meat is Murder. WACU: Queen is Dead. Sleep: Strangeways. And now, you've written Viva Hate. OK, they don't all work, but I think the last 3 do. You're not going to write a version of Kill Uncle, are you?

David
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JonathanCoe - 03:36pm Mar 8, 2001 BST
Very tenuous indeed. Quite ingenious, though. Haven't followed Morrissey's solo career because the thrill for me was the collaboration with Johnny Marr. I heard he was writing a novel himself at one point ...

Steve writes:

According to Stuff Magazine - Meat Is Murder is #15 in a list of "rock gems that rarely, if ever, show up on any candy-ass, self-important best-ever list." Here's the review:

"All your friends have The Queen Is Dead - which is why you should pick up Meat Is Murder. Once you get past the vegetarian jag on the title track (songs about salad give us the runs), you get to the meat. "How Soon Is Now" is especially yummy. Mmmm, meat! Burp!"

Faith No More's Angel Dust was Number 1.