1989 02 18 Morrissey NME
THE PLAYBOY INTERVIEW (pt 2) The champ of English camp, Steven Patrick MORRISSEY, puts the boot into DJ Maggie T, Ronald McDonald, foreigners, travel and reckons 'the independent sector is being strangled by its own scarf' ... JAMES BROWN quaffs several litres of carpet cleaner and plunges into the underwear drawer. Playboy bun by LAWRENCE WATSON. There are five Ramones live bootlegs, two Fall LPs, even more Bowie, Raymonde, and Patti Smith tapes, and a multitude of Smiths albums. From James to the Buzzcocks, the cassettes in Morrissey's kitchen cabinet are stockpiled like an illegal collection of classic contemporary guitar rock recordings. Stretching from the colourful androgynous pose of early '70's glam to the sexless but sensitive pop poetry of the Rough Trade and Young Mancunian sounds of the mid '80's, it is an enviable but private collection kept behind a glass door. I only happen upon it whilst using the Moz-phone. The collection is what Morri