Strange/unexpected Moz references?

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Light Of Love was released (in America only) in time for the tour, an ill-conceived two-month venture blighted by bad organisation and awful reviews that broke even Marc Bolan’s indomitable spirit. He would never return to the States on a professional basis again. Mickey Finn insists that the admission of failure destroyed Marc. “Undoubtedly. He just couldn’t crack it. I don’t know why. It was too massive, and Warner Brothers didn’t work hard enough.”
Back in Manchester, the teenage Morrissey, who had switched his affections to the deviant, druggy New York Dolls, was delighted. “Marc was too intellectual to really make it in America, and I’m glad that he didn’t,” he told John Willans and Caron Thomas in October 1991. “His lyrical language was truly only graspable in the cosmic imagination, and consequently he is never considered to be a classic British pop writer in the way that, for instance, Ray Davies is.”
But Marc didn’t stop trying to shoehorn contemporary American influences into his music. While Eno was patenting a new, sophisticated kind of minimalism in England, Marc’s engagement with the street vibe of black America had prompted — perhaps by accident as much as design — a gloriously debauched union of grit and grandiloquence. If Norma Desmond had convinced Joe Gillis to finish that script for her in Sunset Boulevard, then this surely would have been its soundtrack.

Prior to The Slider’s release, on July 21, the tide of T. Rexstasy had been maintained by the appearance of Fly’s cash-in Bolan Boogie compilation album (which effortlessly topped the charts), a slew of magazines serialising ‘The Marc Bolan Story’, sometimes in special one-off issues, and a short four-city tour of Britain. Morrissey caught the ‘supershow’ in Belle Vue, Manchester, on June 16*. “It was just a complete mess,” he said on Granada TV’s 1997 documentary Dandy In The Underworld, “a very exciting mess. But you could not hear the music because of people screaming.”


A couple of mentions in the above book.
*Morrissey is referring to:

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(1972).
FWD.
 
Demons and Lyrical Absurdity: the 10 most poetic songs by The Smiths
 
Demons and Lyrical Absurdity: the 10 most poetic songs by The Smiths
Only one of these songs would make my top ten list of most poetic songs:

the hand that rocks the cradle
This night has opened my eyes
These things take time
Reel around the fountain
This night has opened my eyes
Paint a Vulgar Picture
I know it’s over
What she said
The Headmaster Ritual
Rusholme Ruffians
 
Only one of these songs would make my top ten list of most poetic songs:

the hand that rocks the cradle
This night has opened my eyes
These things take time
Reel around the fountain
This night has opened my eyes
Paint a Vulgar Picture
I know it’s over
What she said
The Headmaster Ritual
Rusholme Ruffians
Honestly, I think they only put Frankly Mr Shankly on that list because it mentions the word "poetry". Dreadful article, terrible website just churning out utter slop for clicks.
 
Only one of these songs would make my top ten list of most poetic songs:

the hand that rocks the cradle
This night has opened my eyes
These things take time
Reel around the fountain
This night has opened my eyes
Paint a Vulgar Picture
I know it’s over
What she said
The Headmaster Ritual
Rusholme Ruffians
Realised I had written one song twice!!

Need to add perhaps I Won’t Share You?
 
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