Morrissey Verbally Assaults Bowie

[tristy]

MORRISSEY has launched a scathing attack on DAVID BOWIE during his first television interview in 17 years.

He labeled Bowie "showie", claiming that the veteran artist was a "business’". He went on to say that the public only fell in love with Ziggy Stardust, and the visuals for Ziggy were dreamt up by someone else.

Morrissey also tore strips off the artist in an interview in the April edition of GQ magazine.

"(He is) not the person he was. He is no longer David Bowie at all. Now he gives people what he thinks will make them happy, and they're yawning their heads off. And by doing that, he is not relevant. He was only relevant by accident."

The attack on the veteran artist will be broadcast tonight (May 14) on 'The Jonathan Ross Show', where the former Smiths frontman also performs two songs, current single ‘Irish Blood, English Heart’ and the classic 1988 single ‘Everyday Is Like Sunday’.

Relations were not always tense between the two, as Bowie covered the Morrissey track ‘I Know It's Going To Happen Someday' on his Black Tie White Noise album in 1993, and asked Morrissey to join him on his 1995 tour, though Morrissey left the tour before it was over.

Morrissey’s new album ’You Are The Quarry’ is released on Monday (May 17), following the release of the single ‘Irish Blood, English Heart’, which is heading for a Top Ten entry on Sunday's chart.

[Steeb]

OK....I may be misunderstanding something....'You Are The Quarry' and 'Irish Blood, English Heart' were released a LOOOONG time ago, no?

[lanky316]

Thats exactly what I was thinking ?

[tristy]

Published: 14-05-2004-12-48

I don't know what that means.

[Kaney]

If thats the date for the atricle then it means it's about a year old

[tristy]

If thats the date for the atricle then it means it's about a year old

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[Enter Blue Guy]

How can you insult Bowie?!? He gave us Space Oddity!

[lanky316]

And those tights in Labyrinth

[Steeb]

How can you insult Bowie?!? He gave us Space Oddity!

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Edited June 24, 2005 by The Second Stage Turbine Blade

[tristy]

I just lost all respect for you, sir.

[Steeb]

Moi? You never had respect for me in the first place.

Besides, I never really got into Bowie, therefore IMO, Morrissey > Bowie.

Then again, Cedric > Morrissey.

[tristy]

Moi? You never had respect for me in the first place.

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[Steeb]

You know it makes sense...

[Enter Blue Guy]

David Bowie > Everyone in the UK. Period. Except for The Who.

[tristy]

You know it makes sense...

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[Steeb]

Cedric Mercury.....*shudders*....I pheer to think what that'd look like.

Omar Rodriguez May on the other hand.....

[Liam]

David Bowie > no-one, fact

[Steeb]

David Bowie > no-one, fact

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[Ananas]

Who's insulting Bowie's old work? Morrissey's just saying (and rightly so) that instead of trying to do anything particularly relevant, Bowie's been willing to instead try and write stuff that sounds like the music that made him famous.

[Guest Ringmaster]

I like Morrissey's attitude. He's an arrogant prick and entertaining.