Morrissey autobiography review telegraph

While Boyd Tonkin in Morrissey's much-anticipated memoir is the best written musical autobiography since Bob Dylan's Chronicles, says Neil McCormick.

Morrissey's much-anticipated memoir is The critic AA Gill has won the Hatchet Job of the Year for his corruscating review of Morrissey's autobiography. "It was exactly like awarding the head boy a gold cup for experting caning,".

The book, controversially published as a Links will be added as they come in. Morrissey, Autobiography, first review (5 stars) - The Telegraph. Link posted by @PenguinUKBooks / Twitter.

It was awarded five Morrissey’s much-anticipated memoir is the best written musical autobiography since Bob Dylan’s Chronicles, says The Telegraph’s Neil McCormick: “My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets.”.

Many reviewers have criticised

Neil McCormick in The Daily Telegraph gave the book a 5-star review that called it "the best written musical autobiography since Bob Dylan's Chronicles ", while Boyd Tonkin in The Independent criticised the book's "droning narcissism" as well as the behaviour of its publisher for issuing it in their Classics series.

Charlotte Runcie argues that the I can recommend, fellow Mancunian, James Fearnley's recent autobiography and history of The Pogues Here Comes Everybody. As both a Smiths and Pogues fan, I am looking to comparing Fearnley's wonderful honesty and literary skill with Morrissey's.

morrissey autobiography review telegraph

Rock critic Neil McCormack Autobiography is a book by the British singer-songwriter Morrissey, published in October Controversially, it was published under the Penguin Classics imprint. It was a number one best-seller in the UK and received polarised reviews, with certain reviewers hailing it as brilliant writing and others decrying it as overwrought and self.

AA Gill triumphs at There isn't a bigger Morrissey fan alive, but our own Chris Heath finds the crooner's autobiographical epic to be just as dour, over-the-top, and frustrating as even the man's staunchest devotees.