(Let me start by saying that those who may become embarrassed at getting caught listening to Desert island discs, or indeed the BBC's old peoples radio station, that Gardeners question time is on after, so you could always say that you are waiting for it to come on because you are getting ready for the 2012 end times by learning how to grow your own food properly, that will fool anyone who catches you listening, for sure).
I doubt that this alert will avert any possible trouble, or cause any (I doubt it will gain any attention at all to be honest), but I non the less think it important to mention because any chance to take the piss out of Morrisey should be taken, that is as it should be.
Why Morrisey you ask? Well, it's because he is on Desert island discs this weekend and I heard a clip of the show implying how his rise to stardom started when Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr first came knocking at his front door for him, saying (and get this for a double cheesy 'royale') "I've come for a parcel, and that parcel is you" ('the rest they say is history!' is the implied context. Up his moany old bollocks I say).
Older punkers and music paper readers out there will recall that 'the moany one' got his 'start' in the spotlight as a fanatic advocate of the New York Dolls, and how, weekly without fail, he would write piles of furious letters to the music papers demanding to know why the band wasn't featured every issue. Even the N.Y.Dolls splitting up didn't deter him from demanding more articles, the band had been split up for some two years by the time he stopped writing about them, almost stopped anyway.
The next target for his bitter, red inked letters of righteous indignation about the state of pop music occurred soon after he saw the Sex Pistols play in 1976.
It was all too much for him, he grew angry at the Sex Pistols, and what he saw in them, to him the Sex Pistols were just a "second rate New York Dolls copy" and nothing more. That became the focus of his red inked bitterness for a while, until he was himself bitten by the 'punk bug', and he got bitten bad, chunks were missing he was bitten so deep.
He got right into punk and found a new lease on life, and not just for a short time either, he kept an ear out for punk bands during the years that followed, even when 'The Smiths' were at the top of the hit parade he still found time to listen to a bit of soothing OI music. One of his favourite bands still is said to be the Cockney Rejects by all accounts.
But before that, he was still obsessing about the Pistols and their alleged 'plagiarism' of the N.Y. Dolls music.
The Sex Pistols, steal occasional guitar riffs from old N.Y.Dolls tracks?? No, surely not...No, no, they wouldn't do that.
I mean, the Sex Pistols only 'official' LP "Never too much too soon the Bollocks" alone is musical proof that they wouldn't do such a thing.
Morrisey next dazzled the public a short time later while being the singer in one of Manchester's earliest punk bands, those legendary 'one single wonders' better known as 'The Nosebleeds' (late of 'Ed Banger and...) no less.
Yes, it was they of "I aint been to no music school/Fascist pig" fame. Morrisey's time in the band was short because they were in the process of imploding when he joined, but he did play some gigs as the bands lead singer, and that does make him a proper 'official' ex-lead singer of the band, incidentally, at the same time he joined, a new guitarist by the name of Billy Duffy also joined, a punker musician who, after the Nosebleeds went through Theatre of Hate before ending up in the stadium rocking, hair metal like Goth heroes, 'The Cult'.
Being lead singer in The Nosebleeds is not the pinnacle of anyone ambitions I shouldn't wonder, but it is something to tell the grand children proudly non the less, -apart from if they ask "were you the famous one called Ed Banger who sang on the classic single?".
I'm just wondering if he is going to be mentioning the Nosebleeds -in more than in a quick 'name check' of his past career moves when he's on Desert island discs though? Or will he 'airbrush' out the 'juvenile' parts of his youth in much the same way he's not too eager to mention his first career move, that as a 'Mr Angry from Manchester' letter writer.
(PHOTO- THE COVER OF THE 'ED BANGER' ERA, PRE-MORRISEY NOSEBLEEDS INDIE HIT, FIRST SINGLE)
I was wondering if Morrisy will do what most other guests seem to do when they go on the show, and quickly bash down a few names off of the back of "Now that's what I call Classical hits-26" (unopened -they got it for Christmas), and present it as their influential, life long play list of music set to their lives, to pretend to be like the imagined, cultured geniuses of fiction, that sit in their dusty studies with the classical music 'softly' blaring away while they pour over piles of old books, some in arcane languages, and those like the eighteenth century 'classic', 'Further comments and treatises on the anus shape of the common house fly, in august' -by Mazekiel J. floobsnoobler jnr., when they are not appearing at the 'Old Vic' theatre playing 'blah blah blah blah blah' of course.
I wonder if ol' moany bollocks will put some of his quick wit and cutting sarcasm into the shows proceedings (eh?) or if he do his usual, and will play it cool but bothered? Hmmm.
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