I was a pupil at St Mary's RC secondary modern in Stretford, I was there the day he filmed outside our school, he originally was filming outside the boys entrance on the corner of Renton Road, it was during our dinner break, obviously when our famous former pupil arrived with a camera crew, about 300 spotty schoolboys ran over causing mayhem, so they stopped filming and stood outside the staff entrance (which was out of bounds to us boys) eventually our headmaster Mr Thomas asked the BBC camera crew and Morrissey to move on, as *in his words "causing a distraction to the boys"...I remember how uncomfortable Morrissey was that day, he didn't speak or look at us, probably through his shyness (shyness is nice😉) and the dread of being back there, he didn't exaggerate about how awful it was there, I received the strap across the palms of my hands several times, for such "crimes" as yawning in assembly! Not long before Moz filmed there, the school was investigated by OFSTED for hundreds of cases of corporal punishment that were unwarranted, it was a damming report on the school, fortunately corporal punishment was abolished in 1987, unfortunately for me, it was the year I left! Ironically the schools motto was Sine Macula, which translated from Latin is "Without stain"...Well I survived the place and I'm seeing Morrissey again in concert this autumn.
You Brits think UK schools are bad....try going to an American High School...PURE HELL.....and if you don't get shot to death you live with the scars for years....
I dont care what anyone says about him or his current politics. This man is very dear to me and will always. People change and as we get older we can lose our essence. But here he is in all his glory. Ps im going to Manchester in Sept and will do the Smiths tour.
hello. just wondering if you made it to Manchester and if you done the tour. how was it? and what Morrissey landmarks did you visit? the iron bridge? Kings road? Salford lads club? or is there a kind of official Smiths tour? thanks.
yes, young morrissey was super sarcastic about most things, even about himself. you can see it if you compare any of the old interviews with any of post 2000s.
Extraordinary how modernist architecture ruled the world for around half a century, despite its inhuman nature. I sighed because that school looked as bland and Corbusian as mine, but that last shot of the block housing was just soul-destroying.
That totally caught my attention also. The shot at the end. Like something out of a dystopian war ravaged future. Except it was built in the 60s. What was the thinking behind that sort of architecture? Disgusting.
This is the infamous Hulme Crescents; a planning disaster that was demolished less than 18 years after it was built. The area is completely unrecognisable from this now…. Ironically an area where only the high earners can afford to live.
@@DevRSVR You should see Leith in Edinburgh. Cables Wynd House ("The Banana Flats") and Linksview House are now Grade A listed buildings! As if brutalist residential architecture was something to be celebrated! Blame intellectual type architects who never had to live in the bloody things!
This is an amazing video. Such a sad story. Morrissey is so articulate, interesting and educating. What a top man. I did visit Manchester this week. I did drive down Kings Road and stopped and walked over not under the iron bridge. On the opposite side to Kings Road, behind the housing estate where Morrissey’s secondary school once stood, there’s even more newly built houses. Seems like even more change.
The development in Manchester is crazy. It’s a different place from when he grew up. It’s wealthier with more opportunities but also old communities like this have been changed. Overall the city is heading in the right direction but sadly some Mancs are left behind.
I was a pupil at the same school as Morrissey (not at the same time though) if you walk down the narrow pathway on the Renton Road side of the bridge, you'll see where the gates were for boys who lived on the Kings Road side, it's the only part of the school still standing, it was demolished in the early 90s, the iron bridge is known locally as the Monkey bridge, nobody seems to remember why? 🤣
These are exactly the kind of gritty and grim surroundings of an upbringing I would expect to lead him to write the songs he does. As with most people, he is a product of his environment. But unlike most people, he found a way to make even the sad, the ugly and the depressing seem (sound) beautiful and even romantic. THAT is a talent.
I feel exactly the same about Birmingham. A massive regeneration in the city. While it is nice and most likely needed it feels like part of my childhood has been erased and only photos and the odd video clips allows me to revisit those happy places.
WOW. I wonder what he would say now. Everything looks so much cleaner back then and it always gets me when you see old clips like this - just how few cars there were.
@No Thankyou It is sad when someone's hometown or city loses its history . I'm from Coventry and I get mixed feelings about new buildings replacing old, but it's usually old stores. The last time I went to Manchester was in 2004, I loved it, even though I hate both teams lol. Maybe it looks too modern now for some?
@@smcomedy4897 Agreed. My hometown is quite a different story, as it is slowly dying. There were 15 houses on my street when I was growing up, and all the neighborhood kids would play ball in the streets, someone's yard, an abandoned lot, or wherever we could. Now only 3 of those houses are occupied and the rest have either been demolished or are rotting away. I visited a few weeks ago and felt sadness at first, but I try not to dwell on it, and I am thankful that I had a good childhood with lots of friends. Like me, almost everyone I remember moved away after High School. I've made new friends over the years and have lived in 10 different cities, but I do feel a bit nostalgic when I return home and walk the streets on which I used to bike for hours on end. I guess on the plus side, nature is taking over the abandoned lots, and there are lots of beautiful flora and fauna to appreciate. Cheers!
@@smcomedy4897 YOU can blame the Hermans in WW2, for alot of what happened in Coventry. THE old burnt out cathedral with the shrapnel pitted blocks of stone, that you can put your thumb in...so moving.
@@hazelwray4184 I guess they mean that culturally he was an intellectual and he brought that knowing into his music lyrically. And made a lot of money out of it! He wasn't really though. He liked to think of himself like that but i think he was actually not an intellectual at all. Intellectual posturing!
I like the way he occasionally uses the pronoun 'one' in his speech. I do the same and am also not posh or particularly well educated, it's a useful tool to get ONE's point across- it's for all of us not just the royal family
I get his aversion to secondary school, his connection with the old house, and his birthplace completely. Despite the negatives, your home city with its flaws and terrible decisions is still a place you don't want to leave because it holds those moments in time which created and shaped you. Morrisey will always be in my heart and I'd love to sit down with him with a cup of tea and discuss old episodes of Coronation Street and how cruel and useless secondary school truly was.
The Queen is dead. I get it now ❤️ I'm manc. In the same way .. It's all gone 😭 I never knew I had so much in common with Morrissey. Walking the streets and canals .. Is not sad it's very Artistic 😅 👍
@@Sergio_9320 I use to live in 'Penguin Island'/'Wighat' (Broughton Park Salford) for 9 years in the Noughties. IF you need me to explain my names for BP Salford, then you don't know Manchester, Salford, Prestwich & Bury! MARK E Smith of the Fall, I've seen in Sedgely Park Prestwich, & come into the pub & leisure club I use to work in Prestwich/ Sedgely Park, for a pint🍺 BUT I never managed to see Mozza.
Must be terrible to lose the area you grew up in. I've recently moved up near Manchester and I don't think I've been to another city that has more comprehensively destroyed its history. If you didn't know any better you'd assume that most places outside of the centre didn't exist 60 years ago.
It has happened all over the country. My nan lived in Islington and had an outside loo. It was demolished in the 60s and the residents rehoused. Now you have to be a millionaire to live there.
@@craftybookworm8280 But there are still plenty of pre-60's houses in Islington at least - in Manchester/ Salford they just demolished whole areas and started again. Even the streets have vanished!
I take your point. London has many historic buildings but where I lived in Stratford, East London has been totally demolished. No roads or recognisable landmarks are left.
LET'S not forget the IRA's contribution, in the mid 90s. YES, & it's sad it's not MADchester anymore, nor Fergie's United. Although the Reds play in Trafford, not Manchester.
I want to know what happened to the 'Bloodtub,' where they use to grapple (wrestle) in Manchester. THE 'Northern Quarter' what a pretentious & poncey name for Shudehill!
It’s still a mystery to me why many architects are almost without any sense for human needs and like to erect those places of alienation and discomfort.
You can see that he read books and didn't have any conversations with anyone who knew how to pronounce the words in the books, an issue I remember having myself at times. There's an interview with Ian McCulloch where he laughs at Morrisey's mispronunciation of chasm, another word that nobody ever says, or at least didn't say in Manchester in the seventies.
Stephen, stephen; Nostalgia = The suffering of returning to one's past. Solution = Don't wallow, move forward and embrace the future, cos it's all you got.
@@Fatfrogsrock Looking at old photos can be fun. However, wishing you could be back in those times is futile, but also neglecting, and not appreciating, the now.
@@davidwhite4874 If I now visit the UK and walk down the street I grew up in I see a gentrified set of houses where others have done their growing up these last 50 years. Were it to have been demolished, so what? It is just bricks and mortar. The memories are in my head.
@ Well, you’re lucky you can still see the house and neighbourhood you grew up in. Would you feel differently had it been levelled? I suppose it might be different if you still lived in the country/area, but going by your name you may be a ‘rootless internationalist’ (😆) and have no emotional ties to the land. That’s globalism for you.
I always loved them, they seemed the total opposite of Simon Le Bon Bon and Duran Duran and such like. For those awkward misfits he was a hero i guess.
It fascinates me how bulldozering old neighbourhoods is seen as progress. But it takes away the things that anchor you - and when you cant go home again, like Morrissey says here its quite a huge thing. I wonder where this Mozza went. He's gone.
The more I search about on the Internet and as I go up n down the country with my job, I see more n more evidence of maybe the erasing of certain aspects of history even notice the loss of amazing creative skills especially in building and architecture, the areas the average every day citezens/class live eventually get systematically destroyed and replaced with absolutely no trace it was there, but in the city's and old monumental looking buildings there maybe signs of them looking like they've been buried, or the land being raised up, makes more sense where the phrase raising a building to the ground
I should be so lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky. Don't be told, ah, do what you want. In my mind and in my car. Giant steps are what we take. Take down the union jack it clashes with sunset. In your dreams does your lover have my face? Finished with my woman coz she couldn't help me with my life. Roll over Beethoven gotta hear it again today. Run for the sun little one. Have you ever seen a cat so clever as magical Mr. Mestophales? Well, have you?
Feel the same about Coventry. I look at old pics, gorgeous old fashioned architecture, beautiful. Then I see what they built in its place after the war... Jesus. Then again, even compared to what was around when I was a kid, what's there now looks even worse! Ever sloping downward spiral, especially with our council.
I was a pupil at St Mary's RC secondary modern in Stretford, I was there the day he filmed outside our school, he originally was filming outside the boys entrance on the corner of Renton Road, it was during our dinner break, obviously when our famous former pupil arrived with a camera crew, about 300 spotty schoolboys ran over causing mayhem, so they stopped filming and stood outside the staff entrance (which was out of bounds to us boys) eventually our headmaster Mr Thomas asked the BBC camera crew and Morrissey to move on, as *in his words "causing a distraction to the boys"...I remember how uncomfortable Morrissey was that day, he didn't speak or look at us, probably through his shyness (shyness is nice😉) and the dread of being back there, he didn't exaggerate about how awful it was there, I received the strap across the palms of my hands several times, for such "crimes" as yawning in assembly! Not long before Moz filmed there, the school was investigated by OFSTED for hundreds of cases of corporal punishment that were unwarranted, it was a damming report on the school, fortunately corporal punishment was abolished in 1987, unfortunately for me, it was the year I left! Ironically the schools motto was Sine Macula, which translated from Latin is "Without stain"...Well I survived the place and I'm seeing Morrissey again in concert this autumn.
Really interesting story. Thanks for sharing. Sorry you had to go through that at school and Morrissey too.
Great story! So it looks like it was much the same in 85!
@@dommidavros2211 yes, the school didn't change much, it was built in 1955 and bulldozed in 1992.
You Brits think UK schools are bad....try going to an American High School...PURE HELL.....and if you don't get shot to death you live with the scars for years....
🖤
He's both incredibly modern and very old fashioned all at the same time. Definitely a old spirit in a new body.
His teacher actually said 'Mozzer you fackin' legend' so they had to do a retake.
Lol
More like 'Stephen, you daft racist'.
LOL!😂😂
😂 😂
I dont care what anyone says about him or his current politics. This man is very dear to me and will always. People change and as we get older we can lose our essence. But here he is in all his glory. Ps im going to Manchester in Sept and will do the Smiths tour.
Seconded. Our Stephen has lost his way a bit recently but back then he was a beacon.
hello. just wondering if you made it to Manchester and if you done the tour. how was it? and what Morrissey landmarks did you visit? the iron bridge? Kings road? Salford lads club? or is there a kind of official Smiths tour? thanks.
Yes by supporting that evil far right lesbian and former Labour candidate Anne Marie Waters. How dare he! Haha.
His politics haven't changed though, society has.
❤
He’s a legend. “It just wasn’t like the old days anymore, no it wasn’t like those days.” Morrissey your the best.
'..you're the best!'
@@mrstephenpariah you sad man.
@@KP-hd1lg Morrissey would want them to be corrected
Shame he’s a racist prick though
What's profound about that statement? Lol
that last shot of the flats with back to the old house playing, heartbreaking.
The most cheerful man in the world ever.
Most cheerful englishman:
He is who he is and shouldn't apologise
@@sdkjsdfo Did anyone ask him to apologise?
🤡🤡🤡
@@yeetboi9817 In the half light; so English, frowning…🎶
he definitely is one of the men in the world ever
It's nice to see Moz smile.
Having a cup of tea with this bloke would be an interesting experience.
The smiths are one of my fave bands, listen to there is a light that never goes out on repeat all the time , amazing song
the smiths yes morrissey nope
Morrisey is the face of the smiths. If you like the smiths, you like Morrissey.
I don't know Why Morrissey has this look in his eyes and this voice tone that makes me think he is innerly joking so so so hard
yes, young morrissey was super sarcastic about most things, even about himself. you can see it if you compare any of the old interviews with any of post 2000s.
Agree. I dont see him as a miserable person but someone with a subversive sense of humour.
I think He might be living with depression, I've heard him say that on interviews, but he also seems to know how to take it with humor nevertheless
Extraordinary how modernist architecture ruled the world for around half a century, despite its inhuman nature. I sighed because that school looked as bland and Corbusian as mine, but that last shot of the block housing was just soul-destroying.
That totally caught my attention also. The shot at the end. Like something out of a dystopian war ravaged future. Except it was built in the 60s. What was the thinking behind that sort of architecture? Disgusting.
@@DevRSVR th-cam.com/video/V7yJSYPyJwo/w-d-xo.html
@@DevRSVR 5 years of university education and lots of pretentious bollocks.
This is the infamous Hulme Crescents; a planning disaster that was demolished less than 18 years after it was built.
The area is completely unrecognisable from this now….
Ironically an area where only the high earners can afford to live.
@@DevRSVR You should see Leith in Edinburgh. Cables Wynd House ("The Banana Flats") and Linksview House are now Grade A listed buildings! As if brutalist residential architecture was something to be celebrated! Blame intellectual type architects who never had to live in the bloody things!
What a singer he is.
"Oh Manchester, so much to answer for..."
The Smiths is the greatest band ever and it's not even close I'm afraid.
ELP is better.
They're not even top 500 I'm afraid. Bland and drab with absolutely terrible lyrics
@@Helghanhooker where did they hurt you?
The Cranberries are far better
@@flaviojosefo7130 they have one good song. And it helps that its a political one
This is an amazing video. Such a sad story. Morrissey is so articulate, interesting and educating. What a top man.
I did visit Manchester this week. I did drive down Kings Road and stopped and walked over not under the iron bridge. On the opposite side to Kings Road, behind the housing estate where Morrissey’s secondary school once stood, there’s even more newly built houses. Seems like even more change.
The development in Manchester is crazy. It’s a different place from when he grew up. It’s wealthier with more opportunities but also old communities like this have been changed. Overall the city is heading in the right direction but sadly some Mancs are left behind.
I was a pupil at the same school as Morrissey (not at the same time though) if you walk down the narrow pathway on the Renton Road side of the bridge, you'll see where the gates were for boys who lived on the Kings Road side, it's the only part of the school still standing, it was demolished in the early 90s, the iron bridge is known locally as the Monkey bridge, nobody seems to remember why? 🤣
These are exactly the kind of gritty and grim surroundings of an upbringing I would expect to lead him to write the songs he does. As with most people, he is a product of his environment. But unlike most people, he found a way to make even the sad, the ugly and the depressing seem (sound) beautiful and even romantic. THAT is a talent.
Bro can’t even go back to the old house, smh
I think that is what the song is about.
Brilliant. Love Mozza
The greatest songwriter this country has ever produced.
Noel is actually better.
@@114D No
He is so beautiful
I feel exactly the same about Birmingham. A massive regeneration in the city. While it is nice and most likely needed it feels like part of my childhood has been erased and only photos and the odd video clips allows me to revisit those happy places.
the same with where i grew up in glasgow
Love you Morrissey stay strong
AND stay healthy!
Kick em when they fall down 🥾
Lots of respect for this man!
Secondary state education, or comprehensive, yep, a lot of us ended up in that. Glad Mozzer got out and inspired so many.
of course a lot of people did, it was compulsory mate...
This charming man
WOW. I wonder what he would say now. Everything looks so much cleaner back then and it always gets me when you see old clips like this - just how few cars there were.
Like the hero's journey, you can't go back.
I’m surprised the BBC hasn’t pulled this. Morrissey has been completely cancelled as of today. #legend
Such a beautiful authentic English and such a sad story, nostalgia definitely brings and exaggerate memories though.
@No Thankyou It is sad when someone's hometown or city loses its history . I'm from Coventry and I get mixed feelings about new buildings replacing old, but it's usually old stores. The last time I went to Manchester was in 2004, I loved it, even though I hate both teams lol. Maybe it looks too modern now for some?
I hate to think nostalgia exaggerates our memories. As long as you don't live in the past and use the past to go forward in a positive way.
@@smcomedy4897 Agreed. My hometown is quite a different story, as it is slowly dying. There were 15 houses on my street when I was growing up, and all the neighborhood kids would play ball in the streets, someone's yard, an abandoned lot, or wherever we could. Now only 3 of those houses are occupied and the rest have either been demolished or are rotting away. I visited a few weeks ago and felt sadness at first, but I try not to dwell on it, and I am thankful that I had a good childhood with lots of friends. Like me, almost everyone I remember moved away after High School. I've made new friends over the years and have lived in 10 different cities, but I do feel a bit nostalgic when I return home and walk the streets on which I used to bike for hours on end. I guess on the plus side, nature is taking over the abandoned lots, and there are lots of beautiful flora and fauna to appreciate. Cheers!
@No Thankyou WAS fascinating.
I miss it, especially derby day pub banter between red & blue Mancunians.
HILARIOUS.
@@smcomedy4897 YOU can blame the Hermans in WW2, for alot of what happened in Coventry.
THE old burnt out cathedral with the shrapnel pitted blocks of stone, that you can put your thumb in...so moving.
Great music from the smiths
Love the guys sense of community, we all should feel this in an ideal world 😊
Thanks, you tube, for showing me this jewel!
he has such a tragic, heartbreaking beauty about him
Gotta admit i luv just walking it really helps with physical and mental health
Say what you will but Morrissey is the best!
Brett Anderson is better
A lenged!! It's nice to hear him talk about his childhood so charming ❤❤
Well done the BBC for uploading this. I seen it years ago on here
Because his song is hit different again
Incredible band whose achievements are in no way diminished by the (now controversial) views of their front-man.
Morrissey has proved that professional intellectuals from Manchester can make it in music.
MES proved that first!
Manchester music scene is paramount!! We have some real legends who came from here
@@ck891 Yeah but most of them are anti-intellectual and proud.
He wasn't a professional intellectual. He didn't have a profession as such, prior to the band
@@hazelwray4184 I guess they mean that culturally he was an intellectual and he brought that knowing into his music lyrically. And made a lot of money out of it! He wasn't really though. He liked to think of himself like that but i think he was actually not an intellectual at all. Intellectual posturing!
This is my first time hearing his voice and wow! It's just as I imagined.
I like the way he occasionally uses the pronoun 'one' in his speech. I do the same and am also not posh or particularly well educated, it's a useful tool to get ONE's point across- it's for all of us not just the royal family
I'll be having that
I get his aversion to secondary school, his connection with the old house, and his birthplace completely. Despite the negatives, your home city with its flaws and terrible decisions is still a place you don't want to leave because it holds those moments in time which created and shaped you.
Morrisey will always be in my heart and I'd love to sit down with him with a cup of tea and discuss old episodes of Coronation Street and how cruel and useless secondary school truly was.
oh wow I'm happy to see this uploaded in much better quality finally
🙌
Happy that you enjoy watching t.v
. o for sure. Way better than the VHS copy of a copy of a copy quality
Wonderful video, thanks for sharing
Excellent! Thank you.
Loves Manchester so much that he effed off to California and never looked back. 🤗
Morrissey morphed into Mr Pink, our old English teacher. The majority of teachers still there in '85 taught me from '76 to '81.
2:21 "When you walk without ease
On these streets where you were raised"
Morrissey was so gorgeous ❤
Good talking to you too. Take care.👍
The Queen is dead. I get it now ❤️
I'm manc. In the same way ..
It's all gone 😭 I never knew I had so much in common with Morrissey.
Walking the streets and canals ..
Is not sad it's very Artistic 😅 👍
HMM yes; I think of City's Maine road, in comparison to where they play now...P...U...K...E.
Preferred Old Piccalilli Gardens, to the new layout.
As someone born and raised in Manchester, seeing the way it’s become. I get it. I understand his sentiment.
Now 8 days later, the Queen is actually dead....
@@lovecanburn YES, & I'm waiting with baited breath for Morrissey to actually say something!
Morrisey and Paul Heaton to me were like Keats and Shelley to the educated.
NEVER liked PH's voice, & he or whatever band he was in played the 'Northern' card too much.
What a good place to be
very well said
The only Keats and Shelley most Mancunian people knew was the tower blocks over the river in Kersal, Salford.
@@Sergio_9320
I use to live in 'Penguin Island'/'Wighat'
(Broughton Park Salford) for 9 years in the Noughties.
IF you need me to explain my names for BP Salford, then you don't know Manchester, Salford, Prestwich & Bury!
MARK E Smith of the Fall, I've seen in Sedgely Park Prestwich, & come into the pub & leisure club I use to work in Prestwich/ Sedgely Park, for a pint🍺
BUT I never managed to see Mozza.
I grew up in Manchester in the 1980's, and many parts were rough and grimy.
I think that was the case for most of NW England. I don’t think we realised how rough it was back then we just thought it was the norm.
Went to junior school for “many many years”, and lived on Kings Road “for a very long time”? How old was he in 1985?!
He would have been 25. I remember seeing it when it was first broadcast. Where’s the time gone?
@@strattonlad1228 26.
@@Mitch93 27
You have to have a grain of hope, which is a very difficult thing to have.
OR a mustard seed of faith.
THIS is the first time I've heard him speak, instead of sing; as instead reading of quotes & soundbites in the media.
Thats why the smiths are so good. Marr + A WRITER.
Journey, autobiography through time.
The red-brick Victorian building in the background at 1:18 has now been converted into flats. I'm currently in those flats as I type this comment.
Are you still there?
Feeling the effects of Modernity
National treasure
International treasure.
Morrissey- the only person alive who has never grown out of their Morrissey phase
Smart man
3:30 it was indeed, quite true
My fav video ever being published by the BBC ! WHATTTT
Wonderful clip of the greatest Englishman.
I grew up off kings road, home of the Iron Bridge
Must be terrible to lose the area you grew up in. I've recently moved up near Manchester and I don't think I've been to another city that has more comprehensively destroyed its history. If you didn't know any better you'd assume that most places outside of the centre didn't exist 60 years ago.
It has happened all over the country. My nan lived in Islington and had an outside loo. It was demolished in the 60s and the residents rehoused. Now you have to be a millionaire to live there.
@@craftybookworm8280 But there are still plenty of pre-60's houses in Islington at least - in Manchester/ Salford they just demolished whole areas and started again. Even the streets have vanished!
I take your point. London has many historic buildings but where I lived in Stratford, East London has been totally demolished. No roads or recognisable landmarks are left.
LET'S not forget the IRA's contribution, in the mid 90s.
YES, & it's sad it's not MADchester anymore, nor Fergie's United. Although the Reds play in Trafford, not Manchester.
I want to know what happened to the 'Bloodtub,' where they use to grapple (wrestle) in Manchester.
THE 'Northern Quarter' what a pretentious & poncey name for Shudehill!
Moz!! 👑💙🙌🙌
"back bedroom casualty" - did that end up in a song - if not it should have
Charming man .👍
Top man 👍
2:40. He is still talking while walking. He has a little mic.😂
It’s still a mystery to me why many architects are almost without any sense for human needs and like to erect those places of alienation and discomfort.
Welcome to council housing, where they think of you as cattle.
Brutalist architecture is so damaging to the human condition it has been banned in many places.
I think they are paid to/encouraged to/chosen because of their style to do that.
Dickens was a famous walker too.
Everything changes nothing stays the same
..." the anals of history" ...a true intellectual our Mozza.
You can see that he read books and didn't have any conversations with anyone who knew how to pronounce the words in the books, an issue I remember having myself at times. There's an interview with Ian McCulloch where he laughs at Morrisey's mispronunciation of chasm, another word that nobody ever says, or at least didn't say in Manchester in the seventies.
English pronunciation is wildly unpredictable
@@jimmyoddsocks8666 Yes, but he's also gay and may have pronounced 'annals' that way as a private joke to those in the know.
Very interesting.
Happy to see : that ( geographically speaking ) Morrissey went from a Queen to a KIng
😂😂
That's happened almost everywhere, shame really.
2:21 me talking about how my college days are going
Stephen, stephen; Nostalgia = The suffering of returning to one's past. Solution = Don't wallow, move forward and embrace the future, cos it's all you got.
Why does nostalgia have to be suffering? Should we all stop taking photos then? 😂
@@Fatfrogsrock Looking at old photos can be fun. However, wishing you could be back in those times is futile, but also neglecting, and not appreciating, the now.
Yeah, but it's a different feeling when the place you are nostalgic for has ceased to exist and can never be revisited even in a disinterested way.
@@davidwhite4874 If I now visit the UK and walk down the street I grew up in I see a gentrified set of houses where others have done their growing up these last 50 years. Were it to have been demolished, so what? It is just bricks and mortar. The memories are in my head.
@ Well, you’re lucky you can still see the house and neighbourhood you grew up in. Would you feel differently had it been levelled? I suppose it might be different if you still lived in the country/area, but going by your name you may be a ‘rootless internationalist’ (😆) and have no emotional ties to the land. That’s globalism for you.
I always loved them, they seemed the total opposite of Simon Le Bon Bon and Duran Duran and such like.
For those awkward misfits he was a hero i guess.
To me he’ll always be a hero.
BUT early New Romantic Duran Duran had an air of mystery about them, not their later 'Rich Kids' in Rio stuff.
@@redwingrob1036 Yes your spot on i always thought Planet Earth and that first album were excellent to be fair.
It fascinates me how bulldozering old neighbourhoods is seen as progress. But it takes away the things that anchor you - and when you cant go home again, like Morrissey says here its quite a huge thing. I wonder where this Mozza went. He's gone.
The more I search about on the Internet and as I go up n down the country with my job, I see more n more evidence of maybe the erasing of certain aspects of history even notice the loss of amazing creative skills especially in building and architecture, the areas the average every day citezens/class live eventually get systematically destroyed and replaced with absolutely no trace it was there, but in the city's and old monumental looking buildings there maybe signs of them looking like they've been buried, or the land being raised up, makes more sense where the phrase raising a building to the ground
Was the giggly Morrissey meeting his old teachers the real one? Still great music but I wonder how his character would get on as a newcomer today.
If Morrisseys depressive nature is an act, he's done well to keep it up for 50 odd years
Did I know his name was Steven? I honestly can't remember. I just know him as Morrissey
Backbedroom casualty
2:33 SO TRUE. IT APPLIES TODAY AS WELL. 2024
Heaven knows he’s miserable now. Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools. Manchester so much to answer for 💞
"Spineless swines, cemented minds" .... As someone educated in Manchester, he was right
Thank god 5 years education had no effect on him.
Everyday is like Sunday 😂
I should be so lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky. Don't be told, ah, do what you want. In my mind and in my car. Giant steps are what we take. Take down the union jack it clashes with sunset. In your dreams does your lover have my face? Finished with my woman coz she couldn't help me with my life. Roll over Beethoven gotta hear it again today. Run for the sun little one. Have you ever seen a cat so clever as magical Mr. Mestophales? Well, have you?
Another wildly entertaining extract from the self-regard section of the Dullard Archives - bravo!
If you had said Wilde-ly, then your shining wit and wisdom would have impressed me. Rather like if you had killed a policeman when you were 13.
@@ubmuhkehcubol I would I say that, you absolutely horrible thing?....It doesn't even make sense. Fie, demon!
@@lewis7515 Please don't make me explain. Do some research.
@@ubmuhkehcubol He's too dense to carry out research.
Feel the same about Coventry. I look at old pics, gorgeous old fashioned architecture, beautiful. Then I see what they built in its place after the war... Jesus.
Then again, even compared to what was around when I was a kid, what's there now looks even worse! Ever sloping downward spiral, especially with our council.
“…its proved to be true.” 🤣
this bit annoyed me 😂
3:24 "Go down the anal's of history or whatever..." ooh pardon, lucky ole history I say.... ( Kenneth Williams laugh )
"Annals", peasant.
Ooh matron
@@Smartychase You beat me to it.
Doesn't work as a pun. It's neither pronounced or spelled the same as annals. You don't understand puns.
@@douglasfreeman3229 no need to be annal about it is there.
I am hated for loving.
& then he promptly departed for West London & Los Angeles ... 🤨
@ciao214Z Kensington & Chelsea
He’s a count full stop whatever talent he had was overshadowed by his despicable personality
his voice is so seductive
...and that's why i live in Alty now
Ahh times changing always we are all changing we have no other choice .
Ironic....all of these massive, soulless, brutal blocks of flats were supposed to be the wave of the future....