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Viva Hate: Inside the World of Morrissey

Viva Hate

The former Smiths frontman’s autobiography is brilliant, funny, occasionally cruel, frequently tedious, and often maddening.

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When Morrissey’s Autobiography was published in the U.K. in October, the British press — being the British press — seized instantly upon the revelation (or confirmation) that one of the most sexually ambiguous performers of the last thirty years had a two-year relationship with another man.

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