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...titles as “You’ve Got Everything Now,” “Pretty Girls Make Graves,” and “Still Ill.” As they slid into eventual global cult following (massive in Mexico, of all places) the Morrissey-fronted band continued to strike notes of not-so-subtle sadness: the rockabilly “I Want the One I Can’t Have” was on the next album, and on the next, The Queen Is Dead, “I Know It?...
...dalliance! Has so erudite a word ever been used in music? I don’t think I’m the first to have to explain the definition of the Weddoes’ song title, nor do I think I’m the first to notice how Morrissey subversively quips Catullus in the lyrics of “Frankly Mr. Shankly”—“I want to live and I want to love / I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of” is clear homage to Carmina...
...over his fan mail, which so far has included at least one marriage proposal. "When people talk to him about his CNN interview, he gets a glint in his eye and a little smile," says the official. "He's definitely into the fact that he's famous." --By Siobhan Morrissey...
Owing to dismal ticket sales, organizers have called off the alternative-rock festival Lollapalooza (with Morrissey, above), before it even began. It was another blow to what is shaping up to be an abysmal concert season. Explanations range from overexposed talent to high ticket prices. Or maybe it's just an epidemic of health problems. --By Jeffrey Ressner...
...come out of hiding to play the occasional summer concert, but this year the nostalgia fest is aimed at a younger and hipper crowd. Reunited veterans of alternative-rock groups are touring and headlining music festivals like the recently reinvigorated Lollapalooza. Among the alt-rock retreads back this summer: Morrissey, whose first album in seven years, You Are the Quarry, came out in May, along with the Cure (the ever evolving rock band, above) and more...