publication, below are 25 particularly Morrissey-esque highlights that demonstrate why, for better or for worse, it’s not a book that anyone else could have written.

But who would have wanted anything else? To tide you over until the inevitable U.S. There are currently no plans for the book to be published in the U.S., but Vulture’s overseas correspondent got his hands on a copy earlier today.Īnd it seems to be fair to say that the book is exactly what you’d hope for and expect from a memoir by Morrissey: witty, honest, navel-gazing, indulgent, erudite, beautifully observed, infuriating, catty, occasionally moving, and almost entirely lacking in self-awareness.

Originally due to be published last month, the release was briefly cancelled after a fallout between the singer and Penguin Books, only to get back on track (albeit with Morrissey’s insistence that it be published as a Penguin Classic, a label normally reserved for more traditionally canonical authors). As both the front man of the Smiths and a still-thriving solo artist, Steven Patrick Morrissey has never shied away from speaking his mind, but the book provides the most unfiltered look inside the legendary musician’s head to date.

On the other side of the Atlantic, today saw the publication of the first memoir by one of the music world’s most beloved, reviled, iconic, and controversial figures of the past three decades, in the shape of Morrissey’s Autobiography.

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