Saint Morrissey

“All Saints should be presumed guilty until proved innocent.”

- George Orwell

“I was born in Manchester’s Central Library. In the Crime section.”

- Morrissey

Mark Simpson’s acclaimed ‘psycho-bio’ of England’s most charming — and alarming — pop star

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Like a villain who wants to be caught, or a hero that wants to be feted, Morrissey has provided countless clues to his personality in his peerless, startlingly candid song lyrics and in innumerable hilarious and provocative interviews.

At once Devil’s Advocate and Counsel for Canonization, Simpson offers the finest psychological profile of England’s most intelligent, most misunderstood, most loved, most undervalued, most charming and most alarming pop star.

Peter Watts, Time Out London:

“Before fame embraced him, Morrissey wrote a pair of fanboy pamphlets for his lost heroes New York Dolls and James Dean. One imagines they would have read rather like this: dutiful biography giving way to wide-eyed adoration, heartfelt pleas and catty, withering asides, all couched in arch, witty prose. However, by calling this gloriously shameless biog ‘Saint Morrissey’, author Simpson pre-empts criticism of hagiography while simultaneously giving the last English pop star the veneration he’s demanded during 20 years of self-inflicted martyrdom.

Indeed, it’s an oddity that, despite the many fascinating faces he presents to press and public, the former Smiths frontman has so far only been properly biographied by Johnny Rogan. Simpson’s ‘psycho-bio’ offers a handsome counterpoint to that sober doorstep, choosing not to examine the life to explain the art, but instead studying the lyrics to celebrate the man. The result is a deliciously deviant deification.

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