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November 3, 2005

Ringleader Of The Tormentors

Morrissey's new album has a title (see above) and release date (around 3/21). There's a just-updated studio diary on producer Tony Visconti's site. Photos too.

"Irish Blood English Heart" popped up on the iPod the other day. Sounds especially fantastic when you haven't listened to it in a year.

Favorite Morrissey rumor ... go:

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I heard he eats babies

Posted by: KC at 11/03/05 12:35 PM | Reply
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He is my wife.

Posted by: Bianca Jagger at 11/03/05 12:37 PM | Reply
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I heard he's a eunuch.

Posted by: scott at 11/03/05 12:41 PM | Reply
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"I heard he eats babies"

Morrisy would like you to beleive that he doesn't eat babies, but he has never gone on record saying he doesn't. Maybe thats becasue he is to busy eating babies.

Posted by: The A-R-T at 11/03/05 12:47 PM | Reply
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Looking a litle too Jay Leno-esque in that photo.

Posted by: Scott at 11/03/05 12:51 PM | Reply
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Prefers it when addressed as "Mastah M".

Posted by: charles at 11/03/05 12:58 PM | Reply
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My favourite rumour is that morrissey smokes a lot of pot and has a liking for circuit queens.

well i wouldn't say it was a rumour, but that's what this strange dood on the bus told me one day after he saw my morrissey pin. i had a few j's on me and i'm sure he could smell them, because when i didn't buy the story that he was partying with morrissey he went for the "just found out i had cancer" route....

Posted by: missnee at 11/03/05 1:16 PM | Reply
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He is completely bald and his "hair" is actually just a very well-behaved live ferret.

Posted by: KC at 11/03/05 1:20 PM | Reply
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I love how his hair looks exactly the same except grayer and he's put on a few pounds! (yeah i know that's not a rumour)

Posted by: A. at 11/03/05 1:26 PM | Reply
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Moz is the New Face of Timex.

Posted by: Melina at 11/03/05 1:26 PM | Reply
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i heard that he has "my humps" as a ringtone on his cell phone.

Posted by: Rachel at 11/03/05 1:31 PM | Reply
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I heard he's straight.

Posted by: Edwin at 11/03/05 2:15 PM | Reply
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i heard he has kind of a gut...oh wait, that's obvious from the photo. nevermind.

Posted by: eric at 11/03/05 2:49 PM | Reply
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A gut? Yeah and when you are his age, you will too. Except you won't have as much money.

Posted by: xolondon at 11/03/05 2:51 PM | Reply
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Back in the day (mid-90s was my Moz heyday) I heard that at the afterparty of a NYC show he was spotted eating hot dogs and hooking up with teenage boys.

Posted by: sasefina at 11/03/05 3:54 PM | Reply
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I prefer truth to rumor. he is the son of not one but two librarians. as a librarian, I think that is tops.

Posted by: matthew at 11/03/05 4:36 PM | Reply
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sasefina, that's hot...hope it was true... except for the hotdogs part... that'd break my <3

Posted by: marsh at 11/03/05 5:11 PM | Reply
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i heard he's really over-rated as a solo artist. theres over-rated, and then theres MORRISSEY over-rated.

Posted by: Ned Hepburn at 11/03/05 5:27 PM | Reply
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i heard he likes to chew liverwurst, swish it around in his mouth with some christian brothers brandy, and then spit it out...

or maybe it was he had gotten a paunch...i always get the two of us mixed up...

Posted by: Arbiter at 11/03/05 8:39 PM | Reply
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As a librarian I can confirm that he's Ray Davies.

Posted by: ettett at 11/04/05 12:21 AM | Reply
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In junior high school, someone once told me he was satanic. When I went to the record shop and saw his albums Kill Uncle and Viva Hate, I knew it had to be true.

Posted by: mandy at 11/04/05 8:10 AM | Reply
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to Bill Brasky!

Posted by: blank at 11/04/05 10:20 AM | Reply
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he pulled me onstage at the 9:30 club in dc while singing "swallow on my neck" and it was probably the most surreal, incredible experience of my life. i freak out just thinking about it

Posted by: john at 11/04/05 10:56 AM | Reply
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He had a hispanic boyfriend in LA.

Posted by: crack at 11/04/05 11:54 AM | Reply
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i heard his poo smells of acorns.

Posted by: PissFenders at 11/04/05 5:04 PM | Reply
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not true, matthew. his father is/was a hospital porter. only mom is/was a librarian.

Posted by: doug szathkey at 11/05/05 12:26 AM | Reply
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I heard that the band-aid on his nipple in the video for "November Spawned A Monster" covered a nipple injury that involved Michael Stipe, a football and the cracks between planks in an old wooden floor.

Serious.

Posted by: Helen at 11/05/05 5:29 PM | Reply
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i heard he once lost his left foot in a waterslide mishap ... he has a surgically attached cow hoof for his left "foot"

that's why he doesnt want people to eat cow meat

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he also once passed out backstage and they pumped his stomach and found nothing out of the ordinary

Posted by: Ashlee Simpson at 11/07/05 2:16 PM | Reply
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i heard he started telling everybody he loved Oscar Wilde because he liked the movies Silver Stream and Stir Crazy ... later when he found out that guy was Gene WildeR ... he kept with his original story

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he also once beat a hobo to death with sock filled with beans

Posted by: Jessica Simpson at 11/07/05 2:20 PM | Reply
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I hear he sleeps in the nude, covered only in a blanket made of pixie dust and 8 year-old boys.

Posted by: Smizzy at 11/09/05 5:48 PM | Reply
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I heard he was married to Heidi Klum...

Posted by: Nuno at 11/20/05 8:02 PM | Reply
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leave moz alone u twisted fool's morrissey is the greatest song writer ever an he has a great unique voice

Posted by: moz fan at 11/21/05 3:59 AM | Reply
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A little birdie told me that the Smiths are getting back together...

...for a big pillow fight.

Posted by: Old Mozza fan at 11/25/05 2:37 AM | Reply
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ive heard that hes dead and was replaced with a lookalike, if you play his records backwards it says so.

Posted by: hel at 11/28/05 10:05 AM | Reply
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You guys are nuts. My favourite rumour is that Moz is secretly married to a hispanic single mum. He pays maintance buy they don't live together!

Posted by: Goth at 12/13/05 10:29 AM | Reply
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OMG what a load of bollocks! I mean u lot actually believe in what ur writing? ha! and re: moz fan's quote, u are right he really does have an incredible and unique voice and that's from a trained point of veiw too.

Posted by: CJay at 01/02/06 9:20 AM | Reply
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i luv moz!

Posted by: christine at 01/06/06 7:50 PM | Reply
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Morissey is a homo. i was watching beavis&butthead...say the vid with the bandaid nipple...anytime i have a ? i google, it brought me here. emo music is for gay freaks.

Posted by: vs dot at 08/05/06 2:01 PM | Reply
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Morissey is a homo. i was watching beavis&butthead...say the vid with the bandaid nipple...anytime i have a ? i google, it brought me here. emo music is for gay freaks.

Posted by: vs dot at 08/05/06 2:02 PM | Reply
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Morissey is a homo. i was watching beavis&butthead...say the vid with the bandaid nipple...anytime i have a ? i google, it brought me here. emo music is for gay freaks.

Posted by: vs dot at 08/05/06 2:02 PM | Reply
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I learned he is a member of the Kelly Family.

Posted by: Daddy Kelly at 04/14/07 11:06 PM | Reply
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Gosh you guys seriously don't know shit about any of this music, specially when your calling it EMO you FOOOOOOOLLLL! if you listen to the songs and just look at the guy he quite obviously isn't emo you fucking dick. None of you know morrisey except from his songs so how the fuck would you know hes A homo? If you knew him you would know he isn't and as a matter fact hes even said he isn't your the gay one.. saying he's emo as a bad thing and then googling him, obviously you like him or you wouldn't have googled him. EMOOOOOOOOO. Morissey is a class song writer and doesn't lack in common sense unlike some, he might be a veggy and be celabate but that doesn't mean hes an emo freak. Goshh.

up on the sand upon the bay theres a quick and easy way you say before you illustrate i'd rather stay i'm not the man you think i am i'm not the man you think i am.

thanks.

Posted by: GeorgiaStorm at 05/15/07 1:22 PM | Reply
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I heard Morrissey is a god and he's the best artist that has ever and will ever live :]

Posted by: vincent at 07/08/07 7:52 PM | Reply
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I heard that Moz is God...

Oh, wait, that's actually not a rumor either, is it...?

Well, I also heard he liked to shop at Target and stock up on all the cheap plastic tableware there, especially the plastic shot glasses. Fact.

Posted by: Missa at 08/11/07 5:46 PM | Reply
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I heard he was complete A-sexual and abstained from sex for 20 odd years...

Posted by: Jean Pant at 06/12/08 2:06 AM | Reply
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