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<\/a><\/p>\nJohnny Marr is responsible for the \u201d\u02dcMoz\u2019 nickname<\/h3>\n
Morrissey is often lovingly shortened to Moz, and it\u2019s just always been that way. But, this nickname is actually down to Morrissey\u2019s Smiths bandmate Johnny Marr. Back in 1984, Marr would dub Morrissey \u201d\u02dcMisery Mozzery\u2019 \u201d\u201c the rest, as they say, is history.<\/p>\n
Morrissey loves his soaps<\/h3>\n
Strangely, yes. Morrissey might be vocal about his disdain for his home city of Manchester but he adores the cobbled streets of Coronation Street<\/em>. So much so, he even asked if he could write for Corrie<\/em>. His ties with soaps don\u2019t end there \u201d\u201c he\u2019s appeared on Brookside<\/em> and turned down appearances on Emmerdale<\/em> and EastEnders.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201d\u02dcMr Manchester\u2019 Tony Wilson is renowned for his involvement in Mancunian culture and music. He is portrayed in the films 24 Hour Party People<\/em> and Control<\/em>. Wilson apparently couldn\u2019t see the hype around four-piece The Smiths, and is quoted as saying; \u201cI\u2019m not so sure about Johnny\u201d\u00a6 \u201d\u02dcHand In Glove\u2019 is \u201d\u02dcRebel Rebel\u2019.\u201d\u009d Fortunately, many others disagreed and saw the worth in The Smiths!<\/p>\n Well, if Morrissey had had his way. In his autobiography, the Moz said \u201cI had missed the value of \u201d\u02dcThere Is a Light That Never Goes Out\u2019, and I suggested to Johnny that it shouldn\u2019t be included on the album. He laughs a you-silly-thing warranty and I drop the protest.\u201d\u009d Indie fans everywhere have Johnny Marr to thank for this classic making The Queen is Dead\u00a0<\/em>in the end!<\/p>\n Former Take That member Robbie Williams was apparently desperate to do a song with Morrissey; so much so that Robbie would post handwritten letters asking him to do the duet. Unsurprisingly, Moz declined.<\/p>\n Morrissey moved to LA back in the late 1990s, and it is alleged that he was told to get rid of his band so he could \u201cmake an album either with Radiohead or Everything But the Girl singer Tracey Thorn.\u201d\u009d A Radiohead-Morrissey hybrid album never came to be, but it may have been the most depressing album ever made if it had.<\/p>\n There is a recurring theme, but Morrissey declined on the opportunity to star on one of the biggest sitcoms ever \u201d\u201c Friends<\/em>. He had met the cast on set and from there he was taken aside and asked to be in the show in a last minute, thrown together plot. Moz was asked to sing with Phoebe Buffay in Central Perk in \u201d\u02dca really depressing voice\u2019. Friends<\/em> didn\u2019t get their man, as Moz puts it: \u201cWithin seconds of the proposal, I wind down the fire-escape like a serpent, and it\u2019s goodbye to Hollywood yet again.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n When Morrissey released his autobiography back in 2013, he revealed that he was quizzed over the lyrics to \u201d\u02dcMargaret on the Guillotine\u2019. The song appears on debut album Viva Hate<\/em> and discusses the death of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher while she was still in power.<\/p>\n Not the famous Irish midfielder Roy, but rather the English band fronted by Tom Chaplin. Their debut album Hopes and Fears<\/em> was huge, with singles such as Somewhere Only We Know<\/em> and This Is The Last Time<\/em> \u201d\u201c so big in fact, it kept one of Mozza\u2019s best loved works, You Are the Quarry<\/em>\u00a0off the top of the album charts. The band felt awful and were compelled to apologise to Morrissey for it.<\/p>\n In 2006, Steven Patrick Morrissey was pipped to a very different top spot. BBC\u2019s The Culture Show named Morrissey second in the list of Britain\u2019s Greatest Living Icons. He was beaten by national treasure Sir David Attenborough, so it\u2019s not all bad.<\/p>\n Has this whetted your appetite for all things Moz? Why not check out the Morrissey<\/a> and Smiths<\/a> items currently in stock at musicMagpie? Build up your classic collection for a lot less!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Steven Patrick Morrissey, the former Smiths frontman, is the subject of biopic \u201d\u02dcEngland is Mine\u2019 which was released in the UK earlier this month. One of the most loved singers ever is immortalised in the feature film that looks at the life Morrissey had before he became the flower-wielding enigma …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[1779,1696],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7641"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12807,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641\/revisions\/12807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tony Wilson wasn\u2019t a fan<\/h3>\n
\u201d\u02dcThere Is a Light That Never Goes Out\u2019 almost didn\u2019t make the cut<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nMorrissey felt some pressure to do an unlikely duet\u201d\u00a6<\/h3>\n
\u201d\u00a6and was pressured into making an even stranger album<\/h3>\n
The One With The Morrissey Cameo<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nHe\u2019s been in trouble with Scotland Yard<\/h3>\n
He got an apology from Keane in 2004<\/h3>\n
He\u2019s a certified British Icon<\/h3>\n