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New Order’s frontman on Joy Division, Morrissey, Trump and the far right, giving up Pernod (‘alcoholic toothpaste’), and how he finally learned to enjoy touring
It turns out, I am just a regular old Irish begrudger
Patrick Logue: Other people’s good fortune makes my bad side shine brightly
Irish blood, English heart: Shelagh Delaney, Brendan Behan and Morrissey
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Donald Clarke: The game is up for Morrissey the reactionary
How did we Smiths obsessives miss the signs in the 1980s. Because they were there
England was theirs: the high point of The Smiths
‘Strangeways’ remains a key text in understanding The Smiths’ greatness, and is why so many disciples still follow Morrissey through trying times
Morrissey as a miserable young man: ‘entirely asexual and a bit of an arse’
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