Morrissey: Kill Uncle
Mat Snow, Q, April 1991
NO STRANGER TO the extravagant gesture, on the sleeve of his first all-new long-player since 1988's Viva Hate, Morrissey is pictured from below as if he were a soapbox orator belabouring a gathering of the curious under a clouded English sky. Which perhaps, he is.
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