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Gratuitous Simpson

If you’re a member of Amazon Prime in the US, UK, France or Germany and own a Kindle you can e-borrow Metrosexy, Saint Morrissey and Male Impersonators for nowt. (Though Amazon promises to bung me a couple of dollars for each lend.)

October 28, 2012 – 2:07 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in announcement | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

A Taste of Honey is still sweet half a century on

Hard to believe, but this year Tony Richardson’s wide-eyed 1961 ‘neo-realist’ masterpiece A Taste of Honey, based on a play by Salford playwright prodigy Shelagh Delaney is half a century old. Filmed on location in lyrical black and white when Manchester was still connected to its chimney-stacked ‘dark Satanic’ past, it tells the story of …

November 1, 2011 – 1:55 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in announcement | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)

Mark Simpson’s Saint Morrissey Now Available as an e-book

The widely critically-acclaimed, innovative – and egotistical – ‘psycho-bio’ of pop’s most elusive, most adored, most charming and most alarming front-man is now available for instant download on Amazon Kindle (including Kindle for PC, iPhone and iPad). “The most incisive biography of Morrissey yet published“ — James Maker, “The Fifth Smith” “Simpson is funny, clever, honest, irreverent and egotistical: …

May 6, 2010 – 4:51 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in Morrissey, music | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)

Morrissey’s Seven Inch Plastic Strap-On

There’s a naked man standing laughing in your dreams. You know who it is, but you don’t like what it means.   A number of people have forwarded Morrissey’s pubes to me. (For which, many thanks.) I thought I could get away with not discussing the Moz minge, but this Red Hot Chili Peppers pastiche, nostalgic …

February 18, 2009 – 6:12 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, commentary, Morrissey, music, popular culture | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (15)