Bruce Lee
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From The Interview (June 24, 2019) - Morrissey Central:
sam: I know your biggest hero is Bruce Lee as well as the obvious Oscar Wilde and James Baldwin. How does Bruce Lee fit into it all?
M: Style. I said many years ago about never having seen a bad photograph of James Dean. Some people just ARE style. I know you feel the same way about Marilyn Monroe, which is also true. It wasn’t possible to photograph her unflatteringly. Style is just there within certain people without anyone needing to point it out… Anne Sexton was another.
A promotional video for The Green Hornet featuring Bruce has been screened during pre-show videos.
Morrissey has used several Bruce Lee images, montages and t-shirts throughout tours:
Animated loop used as a backdrop during Speedway in 2024.
Still used as a backdrop during Sure Enough, The Telephone Rings in 2022.
Image used as a backdrop in 2021:
Images used as a backdrops in 2019:
Image used as a backdrop in 2015:
Morrissey donated a signed custom drum header in 2015 from his Sydney concert to a charity auction for The Gentle Barn:
Image used as a backdrop in 2014:
Mentioned In
- The Interview. A LARKS' TONGUE IN APRIL. - Morrissey Central (June 24, 2019)
- 45 SINGLE NUMBER TWO ! - Release Information (February 1, 2020)
- Live In Concert 2020 Pre-show Tracks
- Turning The Inside Out. - Morrissey Central (July 5, 2021)
- Live In Concert 2022 Pre-show Tracks
Wikipedia Information
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Bruce Lee (born Lee Jun-fan; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy drawing from different combat disciplines. Credited with helping popularize martial arts films in the 1970s, Lee is considered by some commentators and martial artists to be the most influential martial artist of all time and a pop culture icon of the 20th century, who bridged the gap between East and West. He is credited with promoting Hong Kong action cinema and helping to change the way Chinese people were presented in American films. Born in San Francisco and raised in British Hong Kong, Lee was introduced to the Hong Kong film industry as a child actor by his father. His early martial arts experience included Wing Chun (trained under Ip Man), tai chi, boxing (winning a Hong Kong boxing tournament), and frequent street fighting (neighborhood and rooftop fights). In 1959, Lee moved to Seattle, where he enrolled at the University of Washington in 1961. It was during this time in the United States that he began considering making money by teaching martial arts, even though he aspired to have a career in acting. He opened his first martial arts school, operated out of his home in Seattle. After later adding a second school in Oakland, California, he once drew significant attention at the 1964 Long Beach International Karate Championships of California by making demonstrations and speaking. He subsequently moved to Los Angeles to teach, where his students included Chuck Norris, Sharon Tate, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. In the 1970s, his Hong Kong and Hollywood-produced films elevated Hong Kong martial arts films to a new level of popularity and acclaim, sparking a surge of Western interest in Chinese martial arts. The direction and tone of his films dramatically influenced and changed martial arts and martial arts films worldwide. With a career spanning Hong Kong and the United States, he is known for his roles in five feature-length Hong Kong martial arts films in the early 1970s: Lo Wei's The Big Boss (1971) and Fist of Fury (1972); Golden Harvest's The Way of the Dragon (1972), directed and written by Lee; and Golden Harvest and Warner Brothers' Enter the Dragon (1973) and The Game of Death (1978), both directed by Robert Clouse. After Lee's death, his films gained a large cult following. He became an iconic figure known throughout the world, particularly among the Chinese, based upon his portrayal of Cantonese culture in his films, and among Asian Americans for defying Asian stereotypes in the United States. Lee died in July 1973, aged 32. Since his death, Lee has continued to be a prominent influence on modern combat sports, including judo, karate, mixed martial arts, and boxing, as well as modern popular culture, including film, television, comics, animation, and video games. Time named Lee one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century.
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