The Smith's Stange Ways Have Found Us
When you come to interview a man who personifies the term “English” in the way that (Stephen) Morrissey of the Smiths does, it’s no surprise that tea is served early in the proceedings. “You do take milk, I presume?” inquires Morrissey (“No one has called me Stephen for a very long time.").
The Smith's Stange Ways Have Found Us
Andy Hughes
When you come to interview a man who personifies the term “English” in the way that (Stephen) Morrissey of the Smiths does, it’s no surprise that tea is served early in the proceedings.
“You do take milk, I presume?” inquires Morrissey (“No one has called me Stephen for a very long time."). And if you do take sugar, I’m afraid you’ll have to leave the room/’ Couldn’t I sneak a couple of hits while you avert your eyes,
I wonder.
“I spend most of my life averting my eyes.” intones Morrissey, solemnly, as the twinkle in his own negates the seriousness of the moment. It’s a sort of test. I think I passed.
It’s this kind of quirky, off-beat Englishness that Morrissey brings to life in the Smiths that has made them a massive world-wide success, with hit singles in every country except the U.S A Why don’t the Smiths have hit singles in America? Because their record company doesn’t release their singles in America. But, hopefully, all that is about to change.