Saturday, 31 January 2009

Morrissey by Request


How to write a Morrissey song.

1. Be Catholic, probably essential.
2. Be incredibly conflicted, guilty, tormented.
3. Write your incredibly conflicted, guilty, tormented emotions into song.
4. Pick up a guitar/play piano and string a few chords together.
5. Be honest, absurdly exhibitionist and yet at heart, really rather shy.

2 comments:

sirhumphrey said...

Cheers Laurence!

Life Is Beautiful said...

Ah my teenage mouthpiece, that I had to leave behind, but still think of kindly

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33 The really, terribly embarrassing book of Mr Laurence James Kenneth England. Pray for me, a poor and miserable sinner, the most criminal ...