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Last-minute disagreement with Penguin Books is said to have prevented publication <\/p>\n
Last-minute disagreement with Penguin Books is said to have prevented publication <\/p>\n
There may be “more to life than books”, as Morrissey sang in Handsome Devil, but heaven knows he’s miserable now with a fan site reporting that the planned publication of his autobiography has collapsed.<\/p>\n
According to the semi-official True-To-You, Penguin Books was due to publish it on 16 September but “a last-minute content disagreement” between the publisher and Morrissey “caused the venture to collapse”.<\/p>\n
Any “last-minute” disagreement has clearly been brewing for some time, as the book has yet to appear on booksellers’ schedules. According to True-To-You, no review copies were printed and Morrissey is now in search of a new publisher.<\/p>\n
Penguin has refused to confirm or deny that the book was due to be published, or even the existence of the reported deal with the singer.<\/p>\n
The saga of the so-called Mozography, which was to be called simply Autobiography, has been rumbling for several years. Morrissey finished writing his book in 2011, and took his time in selecting a publisher, even after Faber and Faber editorial director Lee Brackstone wrote an open letter to the artist in an attempt to woo him.<\/p>\n
The frontman of 1980s indie band The Smiths, whose singles including Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now and William, It Was Really Nothing, inspired a generation and cemented Morrissey’s status as the foremost miserablist of British music, previously said that he wanted the book to become a Penguin Classic.<\/p>\n
In 2011 he told Radio 4’s Front Row: “I’d like it to go to Penguin, but only if they published it as a Classic. I can’t see why not \u2013 a contemporary Penguin Classic. When you consider what really hits print these days and when you look at the autobiographies and how they are sold, most of it is appalling. It’s a publishing event, not a literary event.”<\/p>\n
Morrissey has yet to comment on the reasons for the disagreement over “content”, but the singer gave notice of his insistence on creative control back in 1986, when he sang: “If you must write prose and poems\/The words you use should be your own.”<\/p>\n
Source: The Telegraph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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