Sue, you'd have to make me bankrupt I'm afraid
cos there's bugger all I own...Richar's records maybe ???
I'd like to clarify how much of a Morrissey fan I have been. I first heard his stuff aged 13, in 1989, and since then I got completely mental over his music. Until his comeback, I'm afraid he's lost his inspiration, that's my opinion, and I guess it's normal when you live like a millionaire. You ain't gonna get the same type of world you did while living in a bedsit in Whalley Range.
(Erm...by the way I'm unashamed to say that 'Meat Is Murder' played certainly a part in myself becoming a veggie
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However I totally agree with Hot Charity and his message above.
Do you really wanna back a culture of sueing left right and centre?
Can you imagine the amount of rockstars and musicians who would have had to spend half of their career in court? Jarvis, for one. The amount of defamatory crap he got over the Michael Jackson escapade, or the Sorted For E's & Wizz "drug" thing... Or George Michael, or Boy george, or a number of others! And didn't Morrissey himself come up with some terribly offensive remarks over the years about people's personality, career and looks???
Which, I add, is part and parcel of "being a public figure" and an opinionated one. You give and you take.
Also, though I stopped buying the NME 10 years ago (and for a number of reasons, I'm now able to afford loo paper), I see it as follows: Morrissey was asked whether he'd ever move back to Britain. He answered no, and even though he has nothing against them, it's partly because it's lost its identity due to the high influx of immigrants.
This is a comment I'd like to quote from the Morrissey-solo website.
"Only in England could a public figure say that he wouldn't move back to the UK because the country had been "thrown away" by being "swamped" by immigrants: and then force a small impecunious defendant into making a grovelling apology, when they pointed out that these are words most commonly associated with those on the far Right".
I mean, he sued The Word for calling him a HYPOCRITE! Are we fu&&%n joking or what????? Talk about losing the plot...