1989 09 16 Morrissey NME

HEADFUL OF HEROES

• So what’s the Greatest Living Englishman been up to since ‘Interesting Drug’? Well, he’s bought a massive Manchester mansion and, if our hot news scoop on page three is nothing but the whole truth, is planning a Smiths tour! But he’s done no new recording and the projected, Tim Broad directed, film of MORRISSEY’S so far only solo gig at Wolverhampton last year has been put on a fairly terminal looking hold.

‘So, Moz old mate’, squirms your ever-optimistic NME, ‘wanna talk? No? Alright then, hows about we have a sift through all that cultural bric a brac that clutters up the attic of your brain? Sounds good? OK, here goes. . . ’

But he won’t talk about these resultant lists either. That, he reckons, would spoil the fun. That, we say, is for others to judge. . .

Morrissey portrait: KEVIN CUMMINS