"Morrissey Steven Patrick Morrissey (; born 22 May 1959), known mononymously as Morrissey, is an English singer, songwriter and author. He came to prominence as the frontman of the Smiths, a rock band active from 1982 to 1987. Since then, Morrissey has had a solo career, making the top ten of the UK Singles Chart on ten occasions and reaching number one on the UK Albums Chart thrice. Born in Davyhulme, Lancashire, to a working-class Irish migrant family, Morrissey grew up in Manchester. As a child he developed a love of literature, kitchen sink realism, and pop music. Involved in"
"music scene. Having met the guitarist Billy Duffy in November 1977, Morrissey agreed to become the vocalist for Duffy's punk band the Nosebleeds. Morrissey co-wrote a number of songs with the band—""Peppermint Heaven"", ""I Get Nervous"" and ""I Think I'm Ready for the Electric Chair""—and performed with them in support slots for Jilted John and then Magazine. The band soon disbanded. After the Nosebleeds' break-up, Morrissey followed Duffy to join Slaughter & the Dogs, briefly replacing original singer Wayne Barrett. He recorded four songs with the band and they auditioned for a record deal in London. After the audition fell"
"Billy Morrison Billy Morrison is an English guitarist, singer and actor who plays guitar with Billy Idol and performs with the Los Angeles-based cover band Royal Machines (and previously with Camp Freddy). Morrison previously fronted the hard rock act Circus Diablo and has been a member of The Cult, Stimulator, Doheny and Into a Circle. Morrison co-hosted Indie 103.1's ""Camp Freddy Radio"", with Dave Navarro, until its retirement in 2008. Morrison was born in the UK and is an only child. He was a member of the indie rock band Into a Circle; however, his consistent abuse of drugs led"
"Morrissey–Mullen Morrissey–Mullen was a British jazz-funk/fusion group of the 1970s and 1980s. Considered one of the most popular jazz groups in London, the band was led by Dick Morrissey on tenor and soprano saxes and flute, and Jim Mullen on guitar, who joined forces in 1975, playing together for sixteen years, during which they came to be known as ""Mr Sax and Captain Axe"" because of their hallmark call and response style between guitar and saxophone. The band began in New York City where Dick Morrissey and Jim Mullen were recording and touring with their mutual friends in the Average"
"indie rock band REM. Planning his first solo tour, Morrissey assembled several musicians with a background in rockabilly for his new backing group, including the guitarist Boz Boorer, Alain Whyte, and Spencer Cobrin. Morrissey began the ""Kill Uncle"" tour in Europe; he brought Phranc as his support act and decorated the stage of each performance with a large image of Edith Sitwell. On the US leg of his tour, he sold out Los Angeles' 18,000 seat The Forum in fifteen minutes, faster than Michael Jackson or Madonna had done. During the performance, David Bowie joined him onstage for a rendition"
"Jim Morrison James Douglas ""Jim"" Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer, songwriter and poet, best remembered as the lead vocalist of the rock band The Doors. Due to his poetic lyrics, distinctive voice, wild personality, performances, and the dramatic circumstances surrounding his life and early death, Morrison is regarded by music critics and fans as one of the most iconic and influential frontmen in rock music history. Since his death, his fame has endured as one of popular culture's most rebellious and oft-displayed icons, representing the generation gap and youth counterculture. Morrison co-founded the"
"Jesse Tobias Jesse Tobias (born April 1, 1972) is an American guitarist who is the lead guitarist and co-writer for Morrissey since 2005. Tobias first gained notoriety during a brief tenure with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1993, although he was replaced by Dave Navarro within a month after joining the band. Before he joined the Chili Peppers, he briefly played with L.A.-based band Mother Tongue. In 1996, Tobias joined the touring band for Alanis Morissette and from 1999-2005 was a member of the musical duo, Splendid. After having their offer turned down by Dave Navarro in 1992 to"
"Alain Whyte Alain Gordon Whyte (pronounced Alan) (born 3 July 1967) is an English musician, songwriter, composer and singer. He is best known for being Morrissey's main songwriting partner and guitarist between 1991 and 2007. (Several Morrissey–White compositions were also released as late as 2009, after Whyte had left Morrissey's band.) Prior to 1991, Whyte previously been in the bands Rugcutters, Red Lightning, Motivators, Born Bad and the Memphis Sinners. More recently, he has written for the likes of Madonna, Chris Brown, Rihanna, the Black Eyed Peas among many others. He won an ASCAP pop award in 2013 for his"
"Murray Lightburn Murray Lightburn is a Canadian musician, best known as the lead vocalist and principal songwriter for The Dears. Lightburn has been called ""the black Morrissey"" due to his vocal similarity (and shared penchant for somewhat dark lyrics) to the former The Smiths lead singer. Incidentally, The Dears toured as Morrissey's opening act during Morrissey's solo tour. His voice is also often compared to that of Damon Albarn. Lightburn claims to be ""absolutely f*cking bored to death"" with these recurrent comparisons. In 2005, Lightburn married fellow band member, keyboardist/singer Natalia Yanchak. They have a daughter named Neptune Lightburn. In"
"The Smiths The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982. The band consisted of vocalist Morrissey, guitarist Johnny Marr, bassist Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce. Critics have called them one of the most important bands to emerge from the British independent music scene of the 1980s. ""NME"" named the Smiths the ""most influential artist ever"" in a 2002 poll. In 2003, three of the band's albums appeared on ""Rolling Stone""s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Based on the songwriting partnership of Morrissey and Marr, the group signed to the independent record"
"Morrison's website stated: Billy Morrison Billy Morrison is an English guitarist, singer and actor who plays guitar with Billy Idol and performs with the Los Angeles-based cover band Royal Machines (and previously with Camp Freddy). Morrison previously fronted the hard rock act Circus Diablo and has been a member of The Cult, Stimulator, Doheny and Into a Circle. Morrison co-hosted Indie 103.1's ""Camp Freddy Radio"", with Dave Navarro, until its retirement in 2008. Morrison was born in the UK and is an only child. He was a member of the indie rock band Into a Circle; however, his consistent abuse"
"eventually became a permanent member of the group, having appeared on all studio recordings and live gigs since. He has also co-written several top-charting singles for Morrissey which includes You Have Killed Me, In The Future When All's Well, and All You Need Is Me. Jesse Tobias Jesse Tobias (born April 1, 1972) is an American guitarist who is the lead guitarist and co-writer for Morrissey since 2005. Tobias first gained notoriety during a brief tenure with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1993, although he was replaced by Dave Navarro within a month after joining the band. Before he"
"summer of 1972, the band had to come off the road in the middle of a US tour when Dick Morrissey was admitted to hospital for major surgery. As a result of the break-up, the band members went off to work on other projects. Consisting of essentially two clearly defined line-ups, as well as an intermediate, transitional one, the original band had a heavier leaning towards jazz, and was formed by Dick Morrissey, on tenor sax and flute, and Terry Smith on guitars, both ""Melody Maker"" award-winning British jazz musicians who had played together in US soul singer J.J. Jackson's"
"with another Melody Maker award-winner, guitarist Terry Smith, with whom he had worked in J. J. Jackson’s Band, to form an early jazz-rock group, ""If"". When ""If"" disbanded in 1975, Dick Morrissey went to Germany on a tour with Alexis Korner and then to the United States to tour and record with the Average White Band, and met up with Glaswegian guitarist, Jim Mullen, who had played with Brian Auger's Oblivion Express with some of the members of AWB, and together they formed Morrissey–Mullen (aka M&M), recording their first album, ""Up"" (1976) in New York. On returning to Great Britain,"
"Red Lightning (band) Red Lightning were a Los Angeles-based rock band composed of English guitarist Alain Whyte (of Morrissey's band) on lead vocals and guitar, John DiMambro on bass guitar and Milo Todesco on drums. The band lists U2, The Clash, The Cult, The Smiths and Morrissey as its influences. The three band members have a diverse musical background spanning punk to rockabilly to English pop to orchestral. Alain Whyte was most renowned as a guitarist, supporting vocalist and co-writer in Morrissey. Whyte has a background in rockabilly. John DiMambro (aka Johnny Anger) is a long-time fan of Morrissey and"
"Manchester's punk rock scene during the late 1970s, he fronted the Nosebleeds, with little success. Beginning a career in music journalism, he authored several books on music and film in the early 1980s. With Johnny Marr he formed the Smiths in 1982, soon attracting national recognition for their eponymous debut album. As the band's frontman, Morrissey attracted attention for his baritone voice, witty and sardonic lyrics, and idiosyncratic appearance; deliberately avoiding rock machismo, he cultivated the aesthetic of a social outsider who eschewed drugs and embraced celibacy. The Smiths released three further studio albums—""Meat Is Murder"", ""The Queen Is Dead"","
"the Smiths. In 2014 and 2015 the Smiths were announced as nominees to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. As frontman of the Smiths, Morrissey subverted many of the norms that were associated with pop and rock music. The band's aesthetic simplicity was a reaction to the excess personified by the New Romantics, and while Morrissey adopted an androgynous appearance like the New Romantics or earlier glam rockers, his was far more subtle and understated. According to one commentator, ""he was bookish; he wore NHS spectacles and a hearing aid on stage; he was celibate. Worst"
"2006) pg.49 <br> 2. www.tillatemagazine.com (July 2011) pg.62 Morrisson Morrisson Kaye also spelled as Morrisson K. (formerly known as Morrisson) is an American singer, songwriter, producer and musician from the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the lead singer, bassist, and principle songwriter of Dawn Of Eros, an indie rock band he formed in 2011. Before then, he produced several demos in various musical genres in the late 1990s and early 2000s and his earliest official releases were underground deep, soulful house tracks for veteran DJ/Producer Julius Papp on Julius' NeoDisco label. In 2006, Morrisson released a high-energy, disco-house track"
"Morrissey–Mullen, Snowy White, Tom Jones, Marillion, Fish, Pet Shop Boys, Buddy Guy, B*Witched, Victoria Beckham, Nick Carter, Living in a Box, Cliff Richard, Mike + The Mechanics, Zucchero, Status Quo, Robbie Williams, Bill Sharpe, Gary Numan, Wham!, Andrew Ridgeley, Dusty Springfield, The The, Jimmy Nail, Cher, Cabaret Voltaire, Seal, Liza Minnelli and John Denver. In the mid-1980s, Niles was featured the lead vocalist (along with Clive Griffin) for the jazz ensemble Bandzilla, which was led by her then-husband Richard Niles. The band toured and were featured as the resident house band on the Channel 4 television show ""Don't Miss Wax"""
"with their song ""Make a Circuit With Me."" Shortly after this, John Buck replaced Neil Rooney on drums. Boorer left the group in the same year but led a Polecats reunion in 1989, which produced a live album and a new studio set. Raucous Records released a compilation album of Boz Boorer's work entitled ""Between The Polecats"" in early 2001. The band continue to tour when time permits, with the most recent gig being at The Hot Rod Hayride in Bisley, Surrey, UK on 30 July 2016. Boorer, along with guitarist Alain Whyte, joined Morrissey in 1991 when the singer"
"Morrisson Morrisson Kaye also spelled as Morrisson K. (formerly known as Morrisson) is an American singer, songwriter, producer and musician from the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the lead singer, bassist, and principle songwriter of Dawn Of Eros, an indie rock band he formed in 2011. Before then, he produced several demos in various musical genres in the late 1990s and early 2000s and his earliest official releases were underground deep, soulful house tracks for veteran DJ/Producer Julius Papp on Julius' NeoDisco label. In 2006, Morrisson released a high-energy, disco-house track called ""Love of My Life"", which reached #15"
"2011, within a review of The Dears' 'Degeneration Street', TC of Clash magazine wrote ""Lightburn has become a leading contemporary songwriter, fusing together words of anguish, a suitably pained vocal style and a musical backdrop that is always in waiting to take a song to a higher plane."" In 2013 he released the solo album ""Mass: Light"". Murray Lightburn Murray Lightburn is a Canadian musician, best known as the lead vocalist and principal songwriter for The Dears. Lightburn has been called ""the black Morrissey"" due to his vocal similarity (and shared penchant for somewhat dark lyrics) to the former The"
"band disintegrated and Nye was requisitioned to play keyboards with rising star Sheena Easton on her 1980 debut world tour, accompanying her live in the U.S. on the legendary Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on three separate occasions. In 1981, Nye switched to touring with UK songstress Barbara Dickson, recording the live ""Here We Go"" album in the process. In 1982, he was approached by Rob Cooksey and asked to perform on a session basis with the Michael Schenker Group (MSG) whom Cooksey was managing at that time. He was quickly inducted as a permanent member after they headlined the"
"The Last of the Famous International Playboys ""The Last of the Famous International Playboys"" was the third single released by Morrissey. It reached number 6 in the UK Singles Chart. The song was not featured on one of Morrissey's main studio albums, but can be found on the compilation album ""Bona Drag"" along with the B-side ""Lucky Lisp"". The artwork for the single features Morrissey, aged 7, up a tree in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester—literally a boy at play. ""The Last of the Famous International Playboys"" is notable for featuring three of Morrissey's former colleagues in The Smiths—Andy Rourke, Mike Joyce and"
"of all, he was sincere"", with his music being ""so intoxicatingly melancholic, so dangerously thoughtful, so seductively funny that it lured its listeners... into a relationship with him and his music instead of the world."" In an academic paper on the band, Julian Stringer characterised the Smiths as ""one of Britain's most overtly political groups"", while in his study of their work, Andrew Warns termed them ""this most anti-capitalist of bands"". Core lineup Other members Studio albums The Smiths The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982. The band consisted of vocalist Morrissey, guitarist Johnny Marr,"
"The Freshies, led by Chris Sievey (Frank Sidebottom). At the same time, and out of the same post-punk of Joy Division combining rock, pop, and dance music to earn much critical acclaim while selling millions of records. The group that would ultimately become the definitive Manchester group of the 1980s was The Smiths, led by Morrissey and Marr. With songs like ""Rusholme Ruffians"" and ""Suffer Little Children"", Morrissey sang explicitly about Manchester, creating songs that are as iconic of Manchester as the paintings of L.S. Lowry. As the 1980s drew to a close, a new energy arrived in Manchester fueled"
"Gully""/""Twingy Baby"", under the name Georgie and the Monarchs. This was Morrison's first recording, taking place in November 1963 at Ariola Studios in Cologne with Morrison on saxophone; it made the lower reaches of the German charts. Upon returning to Belfast in November 1963, the group disbanded, so Morrison connected with Geordie Sproule again and played with him in the Manhattan Showband along with guitarist Herbie Armstrong. When Armstrong auditioned to play with Brian Rossi and the Golden Eagles, later known as the Wheels, Morrison went along and was hired as a blues singer. The roots of Them, the band"
"was that of the Vox Continental combo organ, an instrument used by many other psychedelic rock bands of the era. He later used a Gibson G-101 Kalamazoo combo organ (which looks like a Farfisa) because the Continental's plastic keys frequently broke. During the Morrison era, Manzarek was the group's regular backing vocalist. He occasionally sang lead, as exemplified by covers of Muddy Waters's ""Close To You"" (released on 1970s ""Absolutely Live"") and ""You Need Meat (Don't Go No Further)"" (recorded during the ""L.A. Woman"" sessions and initially released as the B-side of ""Love Her Madly""). He went on to share"
"with him on ""Interlude"" which was released as a one-off single under the banner ""Morrissey & Siouxsie"". In 2006, he collaborated with arranger Ennio Morricone for the song ""Dear God Please Help me"". Morrissey continues to perform and record as a solo artist. Johnny Marr returned to the music scene in 1989 with New Order's Bernard Sumner and Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant in the supergroup Electronic. Electronic released three albums over the next decade. Marr was also a member of The The, recording two albums with the group between 1989 and 1993. He has worked as a session musician"
"notably ""Certain People I Know"" and ""The National Front Disco"", dealt with the lives and experiences of tough, working-class youths. ""Your Arsenal"" was critically well received, and often described as his best album since ""Viva Hate"". The first single, ""We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful"", had been released in April 1992 and peaked at number 17; this was followed by ""Certain People I Know"", which reached number 34, and ""You're the One for Me, Fatty"", which reached number 19. From September to December, Morrissey embarked on a 53-date ""Your Arsenal"" tour in which he varyingly decorated the stage"
"openly gay; in an interview the previous year he had nevertheless acknowledged his attraction to both men and women. Adopting Mark E. Nevin as his new songwriting partner, Morrissey created his third solo album, ""Kill Uncle""; released in March 1991, it peaked at number 8 on the album chart. The two singles released in promotion of the album, ""Our Frank"" and ""Sing Your Life"", failed to break the Top 20 on the singles charts, reaching number 26 and 33 respectively. Another of the album's tracks, ""Found, Found, Found"", alluded to Morrissey's friendship with Michael Stipe, the lead singer of American"
"pop, blues rock, and country rock groups from the US, like Kings of Leon, Black Keys, Blackfoot, and the White Stripes, were heavily influenced by rockabilly. Morrissey adopted a rockabilly style during the early 1990s, being largely influenced by his guitarists Boz Boorer and Alain Whyte and working with former Fairground Attraction bass-guitarist and songwriter Mark E. Nevin. His rockabilly style was emphasised in the singles ""Pregnant for the Last Time"" and ""Sing Your Life"", as well as his second solo album and tour ""Kill Uncle"". Irish rockabilly artist Imelda May has been partly responsible for a resurgence of European"
"Them (band) Them were a Northern Irish band formed in Belfast in April 1964, most prominently known for the garage rock standard ""Gloria"" and launching singer Van Morrison's musical career. The original five member band consisted of Morrison, Alan Henderson, Ronnie Milling, Billy Harrison and Eric Wrixon. The group was marketed in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Them scored two UK hits in 1965 with ""Baby, Please Don't Go"" (UK #10) and ""Here Comes the Night"" (UK #2; Ireland #2). The latter song and ""Mystic Eyes"" were Top 40 hits in the US. Morrison quit the"