Morrissey: Beethoven Was Deaf
David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 15 May 1993
BEETHOVEN WAS indeed deaf. And, Lord, upon looking at the CD panel and realising that after a full prison stretch of maudlin warbling that there were still eight whole tracks to go, did I envy him.
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