Morrissey Rants About Record Label
Morrissey, Festival Hall 2012, Photo Ros O'Gorman

Morrissey, Festival Hall 2012, Photo Ros O'Gorman

Morrissey Rants About Record Label

by Roger Wink, VVN Music on August 8, 2014

in News

It wouldn’t be a Morrissey statement without a little political ranting.

The singer’s latest album, World Peace is None of Your Business, has been one of his best showings in years but that wasn’t due to his record company or the media, at least according to Moz. He thanked three people who made videos for the title song from the album but went on to criticize the record company for not making an official promotional piece.

The statement also makes it clear that he has not received any requests from any television statements, anywhere in the world, to talk about the new release or perform. As he points out, the album is the first since The Smiths to debut at 2 on the U.K. charts and he did it with no airplay or promotion.

I am indebted to three sources that have placed their own well-crafted videos on You Tube for the song World peace is none of your business. The three individual sources are named as Sharon Jheeta, Hector González and wpeace123456. These videos fully understand the intent of the song, and I am relieved that these films exist. Yes, a similar document ought to have been harvested by the record label, but please understand that the pop or rock industry can be as dedicated to perpetuating public deception as the world of politics itself. God bless social media!

Liberty, equality and fraternity are the essence of the song; no monarchic rule, no political hierarchies, no bought-and-paid-for government thugs, security forces no longer beyond prosecution, and an end to megalomania, repression and corruption. Meat consumption is climate change, and if ever there were a self-evident lost cause it is the British so-called “royal family”. Societies have never been so nervous; Pan Am Flight 103 differs not a jot from Malaysian Flight 17. The United Nations failure to imprison Tony Blair and George W. Bush for war crimes against Iraq has told us all that there can never be enough bloodshed, and the world is suffering its worst nervous breakdown. Do not feel powerless!

Many apparently powerless causes have succeeded in shifting political stupidity and greed. You are intellectual sanity. It is possible for nonviolent change; there are more people than there are aging despots; there are more people than there are world leaders. In truth, the world is leaderless. Please stop watching Fox News; anti-monarchial Britain has given up on the BBC ‘ we know that every slot is paid for. We know that the number 1 position on the pop charts is “bought”; this is not 1955.

Thank you to all of my friends in Israel, Chile, Sweden, Poland, Argentina, Hungary, Romania, Finland and Italy who bought World peace is none of your business. It is 30 years on since The Smiths album entered the UK chart at number 2 with zero airplay and zero promotion, and the struggle for the airwaves remains difficult. Yet, I am writing this to you now, and you are reading it.

In answer to many people who have asked, I should like to finally make it clear that I have not received any television invitations ‘ worldwide! ‘ to either discuss World peace is none of your business, or even to sing any songs from the album.

Thank you for reading this. We have our first World peace is none of your business concert booked in Lisbon (Portugal) on October 6th.

All we have is each other.

for the animals, for intellectual sanity …

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