The World of The Smiths and Morrissey by Angie J Cooke nee Lewis

WHAT IS IT I MUST DO FOR THEE, DEAR, DEAR, MORRISSEY THE CHANGING FACE(S) OF STEVEN PATRICK This article featured in the one-off fanzine Sounds Like Morrissey  (produced by none other than Mark "Smiths Indeed" Taylor ) way back in 1992.  I originally wrote it some time in 1991, and I'm afraid it was a tad negative in nature!  Soz, Moz! But as you can see, I'm still here many moons later!  I forgot that at the time I offered to assist Mark with a bit of typesetting for this excellent publication, but I found the evidence amongst some old correspondence! Where my esteemed "writing" career began, at Almondbury in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire! Note my "famed" name of old! This was not long after I went to see Morrissey for the first time at Wembley Arena in London in 1991, when I asked Mark if the rumours were true about him planning to produce a Morrissey Fanzine This is the original article that I submitted to Mark, b

THE ORIGINAL 8 FROM NINETEEN EIGHTY HATE THE SMITHS: MY BELOVED CASSETTES As it's now 30 years since I went from loathing to loving  Morrissey and becoming a full-on devoted disciple of The Smiths , I got my hubster ( Mr Jason Edward ("Entertainment") Cooke esquire, aka The Almighty Spacelord of Ashton-under-Lyne! ) to take piccies of me with each of the original 8 cassettes that I purchased for the first time in Huddersfield at the age of 16 back in Nineteen Eighty Hate by my favourite band in the whole wide world! Note the carefully placed Salford Lads Club painting in the background! #Curator :-) The Original 8 from Nineteen Eighty Hate Part 1: Rank, purchased on 16th September 1988 The Original 8 from Nineteen Eighty Hate Part 2: The Queen Is Dead, purchased on 12th October 1988   The Original 8 from Nineteen Eighty Hate Part 3: The World Won't Listen, purchased  on 19th October 1988 The Original 8 from Nineteen Eighty Hate Pa