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“For me, they were the official end of the Sixties,” he says, tugging proudly at the faded, old Dolls T-shirt he’s wearing. “They were the first sign that there was change, that someone was going to kick through and get rid of all the nonsense. It gave people hope.”
“Obviously, it’s a different time,” Morrissey notes of the Smiths’ spiritual link with the Dolls. “But it’s the same, in that you can feel that danger.”Morrissey sounds the alarm not with a bang but an urgent whisper. As a lyricist, he is more like Ray Davies than Joe Strummer in his tortured poignance and quiet sarcasm.
The Smiths experience, he suggests, is actually “like consciousness-raising classes. They’re very depressing. ‘Why should we sit around and talk about our innermost feelings?’ But those little things bring people together. They allow people to open and blossom, to learn things about themselves. That’s what the Smiths aim to achieve.”
“To me, the two-minute-ten-second single was power,” says Morrissey. “It was blunt, to the point.” Yet until his midtwenties Morrissey marveled at that power only in private. The son of a security guard and a librarian, now divorced, Morrissey lived a hermitic existence in Manchester, drawing unemployment, reading Oscar Wilde and writing mostly for his own satisfaction, until Johnny Marr literally appeared at Morrissey’s door with his guitar one day in ’82.
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