Its hard to believe that Morrissey tickets have been available for his solo career for 20 years. Morrissey has long been known as one of the more unique personalities in the music world, and his peculiarities have resulted in a range of introspective and emotional music thats just as unique as his persona. Well take a look at his time with The Smiths as well as his solo career and time before he got into music in hopes of providing a picture of just how this person came to be a shining light on the musical world.
Early Beginnings
Steven Patrick Morrissey was born near Manchester, England on May 22, 1959. His parents were Irish immigrants who had moved to England just before he was born, and throughout his life he has maintained an extremely close relationship with his mother, but the dynamic with his father has been rocky at best, and regressed to the point where the two currently are not in contact.
Morrissey was always a bit of an outcast as a child, and his early musical interests were strange when compared to other young boys at the time. He loved the girl groups of the 1960s, and his early influences included Sandie Shaw, Marianne Faithfull,...