Morrissey: The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart

by Gavin Hopps

Book Overview

Morrissey is arguably the greatest disturbance popular music has ever known. Even more than the choreographed carelessness of punk and the hyperbolic gestures of glam rock and the New Romantics, Morrissey's early bookish ineptitude, his celebration of the ordinary, and his subversive endorsement of celibacy, abstinence and rock 'n' roll revolutionized the world of British pop. As a solo artist, too, he consistently adopts the outsider's perspective...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441124047
• ISBN13: 9781441124043
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.7"