Morrissey is a preternaturally literate pop star, and his "Autobiography" was hotly anticipated, particularly for any tidbits about his enigmatic sexuality and for his side of the story about the breakup of the short-lived but beloved Smiths. There are other exemplars, including the Cure, Joy Division and Pet Shop Boys, who even wrote a song about it: "Miserablism." But Morrissey is the king. With the Smiths and in an even more successful, long-running solo career, he has excelled at the sort of ennui that the English do so well, redolent of weak tea and overcast skies. His manly, melancholy voice, a kind of bellowing croon, bears catchy tales of sadness and betrayal laced with seethingly witty wordplay that often recalls his hero, Oscar Wilde. Since the early 1980s, the man born Steven Patrick Morrissey has been the martyr-saint of sensitive, alienated youth everywhere, a vast company that loves misery.
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