Johnny marr morrissey autobiography hardcover
Morrissey autobiography book.
Johnny marr morrissey autobiography hardcover
Johnny Marr The Autobiography : Set the Boy Free
December 12, 2023
Not bad for a kid with a guitar
This edition includes the full text of Marr's initial lecture at the University of Salford, which is a brilliant expositive critique of the music industry by a self-made and largely self-produced and published independent career musician.
This edition includes the full text of Marr's initial lecture at the University of Salford, which is a brilliant expositive critique of the music industry by a self-made and largely self-produced and published independent career musician.
Searching the interwebs for references to the lecture, I found critical, angry, cynical pro-industry responses with a very few direct quotes from the lecture (and a few lazy or malicious mis-quotes), along with a few cheers from small press and independent blog posts.
But I could not find the text or even lengthy quotes of the lecture itself anywhere online, which is odd for something that clearly made a splash when it was first delivered, well into the internet age.
It's not a great piece of writing or oration per se.
It's full of platitudes, the usual mixed metaphor, and other issues common in informal speech but it speaks truth to power,