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Morrissey Announces Weeklong Broadway Residency In May

Morrissey Announces Weeklong Broadway Residency In May In recent years, Morrissey has done just about everything he can to alienate his fan base with racist remarks, right wing politics, flaccid new albums (I'll stand by You Are The Quarry and Ringleader Of The Tormentors, but 2017's Low In High School was baaaaaad), and bizarro defenses of sexual misconduct. But this hasn't really derailed his career, especially in America, where as critic Rob Sheffield put it, "he tends to be seen as the rock star who sang about queer life and spoke openly about feminism when nobody else did. These two images define him, and he’s still seen in terms of his pioneering place in history." [ more › ]

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