Morrissey - You Have Killed Me (Attack/Sanctuary)
Lawrence Poole (http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk)
Strewn casually across a railway line with a typically knowing smirk about to break across his face, the track’s cover shot ironically seems to find Mozza in rude health.
The interviews the former Smiths icon has sprinkled sparingly around the press fraternity to date would suggest this to be the case too.
After an unexpectedly prolonged stay in the Los Angeles sunshine, the 46-year-old finally began to despair at the dizzy attitude of some of its residents more obsessed with the future of Brad and Jen than their country’s worrying role in Iraq.
So, he decamped to Rome, roping in legendary ‘70s producer Tony Visconti along the way and proceeded to fall madly in love with the Italian capital.
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Passion??
"You Have Killed Me" is the first inkling of his??newfound passion, taken from his forthcoming eighth studio LP, the typically acerbically-entitled, "Ringleader Of The Tormentors".
A lot less immediate than 2004’s comeback track, the pulsating Irish Blood, English Heart, "You Have Killed Me" harks back musically to the lush days of 1994’s Vauxhall and I.
Skating across the top of longstanding guitarist Boz Boorer’s jugging licks - Morrissey opens with the brilliantly mad line: ‘Pasolini is me/Accatone you’ll be’.
Prostitution
For those not in the know, it is apparently a??bizarre reference to the controversial Italian director’s 1961 film about prostitution in the slums of Rome.
Much more interesting though, for a man usually so discrete on such matters as sexual intercourse, is that he quickly follows it with: ‘I entered nothing and nothing entered me, ‘til you came with the key’.
Crikey, has the romance of the Colosseum, Pantheon and Forum infiltrated Mozza’s seemingly stony cold heart I wonder?
An assured return, if a little too subtle for a single - hopefully the LP will live up to its title. |
