Idolator’s Favorite Miscellaneous Things Of 2013, From #JusticeForBionic To Morrissey’s ‘Autobiography’ To Miley 2.0

Idolator Staff | December 25, 2013 6:00 am

Morrissey’s Autobiography

One of music’s great mononymous treasures finally delivered on the longstanding promise of his unfiltered memoirs in 2013 — well, nearly unfiltered. while Morrissey‘s Autobiography became a UK bestseller in October, it arrived stateside in early December slightly edited down (censored?).

Naturally, given Moz’s penchant for witty bite and barb, several of his peers fall prey to the pop legend’s pen, making Autobiography into a shamefully guilty, laugh-out-loud pleasure at times. It’s not all negative, though, and even Morrissey’s innocent observations make for refreshing entertainment in this day of PR-tested over-politeness.

Random moments:

* A day spent in London with Michael Stipe: “We enter the Hammersmith Odean through the stage door, and six minutes later Michael walks on stage with REM. He is wearing the same clothes that he has worn all day, and he hasn’t brushed his teeth.”

* Breakfast with David Bowie: “David quietly tells me, ‘You know, I’ve had so much sex and drugs that I can’t believe I’m still alive,’ and I loudly tell him, ‘You know, I’ve had SO LITTLE sex and drugs that I can’t believe I’m still alive.”

* Meeting the “shockingly down-to-earth” Elton John: “He tells me how he loved the New York Dolls and Jobriath, but how he considered Bowie to be ‘a vampire’.”

* On being a candidate for major label megastardom in the ’90s: “…I am reliably informed how Warner need a massively successful ‘act’ who is ‘alternative’… I hear nothing more but I note the immediate meteoric Warner rise of Alanis Morissette — the incongruous promotional manifesto enveloping her first album that shifts 27 million copies worldwide. Evidently Alanis had all that I lacked in order to gain a saturated global push.”

* A pair-up with Robbie Williams that never happened: “I am then invited to sing with Robbie at the upcoming Brit Awards, of which Robbie has somehow collected eighteen (it need hardly be said that my own award cabinet rained polished and empty).” -ROBBIE DAW

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