Morrissey's parochialism echoes the whole indie tribe | John Harris

All those indignant rock writers who feel betrayed by the singer's latest outrage should take a look in their back yard"It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate / It takes guts to be gentle and kind."So sang Steven Patrick Morrissey in the unbearably sad I Know It's Over, from an album titled The Queen Is Dead – the Smiths' masterpiece, released in 1986. His recurrent problem, unfortunately, is a fondness for pronouncements that suggest very different traits.Last Saturday, there were small-...

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