Morrissey Central "FRIDAY 26 JULY" (April 13, 2024)

On Friday 26 July, Warner Records will re-issue Morrissey's 1993 live in Paris album, Beethoven Was Deaf. The release is global, and the album will be available on CD, black vinyl, and orange vinyl.
The album originally reached #13 in England, but was not released in the U.S. The venue is the Zenith in Paris.

Two special event concerts are planned to launch the July release. Please watch this site for details. New sleeve above.

Beethoven Was Deaf to be reissued: https://www.morrisseycentral.com/messagesfrommorrissey/friday-26-july

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Media item:

• NME: Morrissey announces live album reissue and teases “two special event concerts" - April 17, 2024

 

[BrokenFrame]

Are the shows cancelled yet?

 

[The Alchemist]

Fixed it.

That has a Warhol feel to it. Very... Velvet Underground....

 

[The Alchemist]

Yes , I agree. This a a legendary theme to it,
Like Elvis, Sinatra. Ect.

Nice that you get that feeling from it. I suppose I like the iconic aspect of the image, and the theatrical atmosphere in it.

 

[theprivilegeismine]

I would love to know who has a say in what image is chosen and the criteria.

And seriously, what's going on with the black lines?

 

[The Alchemist]

No I agree. I was saying he does embrace it, with not interfering by artificial means. Though at the same time he won’t embrace the idea of using recent images.


can’t see him wearing a wig all of a sudden, if that’s what you mean.


this is a silly conversation

You've just reminded me of this image. I actually thought he'd had work done when I first saw this. It has shades of the Human Ken Doll, and left me terribly confused.

 

[ZZ Top]

I just noticed, why is there a black line (highlighted with a red line!) drawn across the cover?? Clearly not in the original photo sourced from Getty Images.

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Is it? …. No it couldn’t be …. Is it a …. giant dildo?

 

[theprivilegeismine]

You've just reminded me of this image. I actually thought he'd had work done when I first saw this. It has shades of the Human Ken Doll and left me terribly confused.

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I can definitely understand why. He doesn't even look like himself here. Maybe it's because he isn't frowning.

 

[A Man Escaped]

Fixed it.

Etch a sketch?.

 

[Anonymous]

Paris shows?

I doubt . In July , the Olympic games will happen

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

You've just reminded me of this image. I actually thought he'd had work done when I first saw this. It has shades of the Human Ken Doll, and left me terribly confused.

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Sam never could quite get a handle on using photoshop.

 

[The Alchemist]

Sam never could quite get a handle on using photoshop.

I mean was it even in any way real, or what was the story behind that image? It's definitely not him, surely (or aspects of it)

I remember being relieved when I saw the next actual photo of him, which left me wondering what that was all about.

 

[hand in glove]

Oh! Exciting news. He should have one of those concerts at The Zenith! I love BWD.

 

[Like_Elvis_In_The_Movies]

Great to have the prospect of him doing live gigs (im guessing one Paris and one London (or Manc), definitely fancy this
Will be interesting to see who the band will be for the shows

That is one awful album cover , given how photogenic Moz is, to pick such an awful image , it’s absolutely crazy , lazy like the maladjusted original album , smacks of not giving a toss , just print it out and the hardcore will be buying it in the various formats for the collection / nice money maker

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

I mean was it even in any way real, or what was the story behind that image? It's definitely not him, surely (or aspects of it)

I remember being relieved when I saw the next actual photo of him, which left me wondering what that was all about.

can only speculate that at that time M asked Sam to fix it up a little, and failed.

 

[Phranc & Open]

It looks so rushed. Who should buy a physical edition of this "thing" in 2024?

 

[theprivilegeismine]

Time to give the album a spin.

 

[The Alchemist]

It looks so rushed. Who should buy a physical edition of this "thing" in 2024?

Those who are deaf, who just want the physical copy to hold and behold?

 

[Anonymous]

Maybe this time, they will not mix the Zenith gig with the Astoria one as it was done back then.

Yeah - a way to actually give this release some value would be to make it an expanded 2 CD set: The entire Zenith gig on Disc 1, and the entire London show on Disc 2.

 

[Howler Monkey]

Would have been nice to do something audacious like this:

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My favourite recent photo of him. Should be his profile picture on spotify, the current one is 10+ years old now.

 

[Light Housework]

You've just reminded me of this image. I actually thought he'd had work done when I first saw this. It has shades of the Human Ken Doll, and left me terribly confused.

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This is the first time I’ve seen a zoomed in image of this photo. I like it.