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This Disarming Man: In Defence of Morrissey

Djuna Parnes, Rock's Backpages, September 2001

WHAT A CURIOUS POSITION Morrissey holds in the pop firmament of the early 21st century. For a man who was one of the defining heroes of the 1980s, he has become a virtual non-person, his career a kind of parallel-universe "shadow" to those of his rock peers.

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