morrissey irish blood english heart live later... with jools holland

[@misterbamboostick]

I remember hearing this song for the first time when it came out, thinking "Damn....Yés, he's back!" Awesome track, great album.

[@Millennial_Mike]

"And spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell... and denounce this royal line that still saulute him"

[@MinskUK]

Sometimes you forget how bloody brilliant The Smiths and Morrissey are/were and then this pops up to get you back on track 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@GAZ87YORKSHIRESALT]

Facts!

[@RodneySeagal]

☘🩸🌹♥

[@kyrangilmore4591]

They'll be back soon the smiths. Mark my words

[@danielarmstrong8503]

The performance of this song that started it all for me. 'Whose this guy Morrissey on Jools Holland...?' *looks up Morrissey on google* 'oh,,,,he was in a band called the Smiths..sounds familiar' *looks through cassette tapes of mum and dads colllection...finds strangeways here we come...and over several years proceeds to slowly digest everything The Smiths / Morrissey has done and seen Marr / Mozza live. R.I.P Andy Rourke. There Is a Light that Never Goes Out.

[@brandonandtom941]

Legend

[@BLLLYMUSIC]

Gary's bass line is superb. His suit is great too.

[@joeseymour4073]

👍🏻Always good stuff from Gary Day.

[@homeward34]

Outrageously brilliant

[@philkearney0577]

Saw him recently at Brixton played this track still potent still relevant still morrissey love him to death.

[@youstolethissong]

Philip Kearney the racist or racial line is from the original demo. He changed it to partial on the final version

[@jerryfalwellsociety]

The trouble is, he's mixed with Irish therefore he hates Cromwell... but nearly every Englishman would agree that Cromwell freed us from royal tyranny.. so Morrissey is kinda biased.... lol

[@Ida-iu3uj]

He's such a gentleman, and I love his sense of fashion - the flowered shirts, and colors.

[@justinfracasso5826]

Seen him in 86, pleasure, 2016 , even better. Legend.End of.

[@stevemckenna2401]

Awesome song from a brilliant album. Morrissey a legend

[@frostytoes686]

Such a great song. One of my favorites. Very inspiring.

[@patriciathewisher2315]

Another of the second generation. Talented man.

[@cristianonisoli7762]

Italian here, and proud. And proud of the proud English.

[@stiofandundealgan1280]

Like his 3 Irish comrades of The Smiths !

[@devo7079]

A thing of beauty

[@belter321123]

He could see it coming

[@jr1638]

Poetic Genius

[@stiofandundealgan1280]

A great Irish artist and singer, just born in England, no more !!!

[@Sean-uu8wz]

I bet your opinion is not the same when it comes to non white people :)

[@garyhighley9022]

@@Sean-uu8wz What makes you think that? Are you attracted to racism?

[@TheBobbyel]

English heart! Mozza knows what's best.

[@kevincook3971]

@@TheBobbyel yeah he sings about it in the song 🤣

[@donnchadhenglish2414]

So if you're born in England you're Irish? That's a new one.

[@dowdallerno1]

This was a good album. Not much filler.

[@ezequieldeluca3254]

Exelente la Performance del violero. Muy fina y sónica .

[@CatherineNeal]

James Brown, Prince and Morrissey. Hardest working men in show business.

[@lalolanda2239]

2:08 i love youuuuuuuuuu

[@edward48loughr66]

Some people don't get the lyrics....the title gives it away....hence Cromwell ..... Ballsy song...Great band....

[@Karl_Burton]

That's not the reason. The reason lies with the Royal line saluting him, which sounds counter intuitive from outside of the rabbit hole.

[@Karl_Burton]

@@torp7215 He was king in all but name, including passing on power to his son. He had no intention to reintroduce the Stuarts

[@Karl_Burton]

@@torp7215 I think you mean restoration. Cromwell had foreign backers and suppliers, whom he allowed back into the country. These same foreigners financed what they decided to call the Glorious Revolution, to dispose of the rightful king, in favour of his treacherous daughter, diverting the title from James Francis Edward Stuart. Morrissey isn't suggesting that the royal line is grateful for not declaring himself king (though in practice he was) after murdering Charles l

[@jonfletcher147]

Bloody brilliant!

[@anaranjadisimo]

props to jerry Finn who made Morrissey sound badass after a long time.

[@MalcolmHart-rz5ej]

This song sums me up

[@sentientchimp]

someday i'll be able to roll my r's like jools

[@cricketbat09]

English and proud. Doesn't mean you hate the rest of the world. Fact.

[@teresawalters6358]

Exactly! Me- Brazilian blood English heart !

[@fabioupc]

En fútbol se han quedado

[@pandawandas]

why would you take pride in being randomly born a certain place

[@minton5388]

​@pandaproducts because your ancestors created the place. Your ancestors died fighting nazism. Because the UK at one stage dominated the world from a tiny island. When you are born British you have won the lottery of life... and you have to be British to understand that unfortunately.

[@johnholmes629]

No you land robbing cunt

[@matnitram]

when Morrissey says, "There's no one on earth I'm afraid" you better believe him. So bad ass.

[@teresawalters6358]

Unique!

[@50mossrd]

Amazing

[@hanniballectures5798]

Absolutely brilliant

[@JustinCase-ld4ih]

Brilliant

[@christinewilkinson2424]

Yes I'm English and sick to death of Labour and Tories 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@jonathanmarkham1998]

I assume you’re voting reform uk then?

[@djtrendsetta5766]

And their third-world pets.

[@doone8849]

Reform is not the solution. Get behind Homeland Party.

[@domenicocalvimonteolguin2083]

Fifa 05 ❤

[@rogerionogueira8422]

Demais.... único ;-)

[@MrHollistic1]

truth teller Morrissey showing the youth how its done

[@drexlspivey5828]

Why do folk producing these shows always have the guitars so low? You can barely hear Allan's and Boz might as well not be there

[@stillben]

Who is that on the telecaster.?

[@jwilson9072]

Ben Sutton Alain Whyte

[@BC-dt4mc]

Morrissey's guitarist

[@hannahprose]

Alain Whyte is the composer of this song & most of Morrissey's hits. Brilliant musician.

[@mzSmith]

Says it plain as day, and still the lemmings leap gaga

[@raijinenel3116]

I'm SICK TO DEATH OF LABOUR AND TORIES

[@gustavo10912]

Ni los Sex Pistols se atrevieron a tanto...!

[@markarend8226]

Legend if He Likes IT or Not...

[@ChainNonSmoker]

I was shocked he don't write nor co-write his own music, just sings lyrics and melodies over music already out together. I respect him for that matter but I always assumed he had higher level involvement in his solo music.

[@ravenknight1704]

He actually does have a lot more influence on the music than he's given credit for. Members of his solo band have attested to the fact that he often gives them directions as to what he would like the music to sound like, and sometimes these directions are quite specific. Additionally, Johnny Marr (and many of his other collaborators besides) has stated that Morrissey never did what was expected with the backing tracks and this has a dramatic effect on the song overall. For example, Morrissey would often leave a long intro and start singing in what was supposed to be the chorus, which of course would have a dramatic effect on the structure of the song. This is very evident when you listen to the instrumental versions of songs both from The Smiths and his solo work. And lastly, in my book Morrissey is one of the finest writers of vocal melodies ever- very often elevating even the sparsest of backing tracks to something very beautiful.

[@dazzleships]

The vocal melody is the most important of the song.

[@hanniballectures5798]

Irish and English are first cousins so get over it!!!!

[@Tombro1856]

Are you for real?

[@The1Green4Man]

@@Tombro1856I’m mixed Irish and English and I agree with him. Most English have Irish blood and vice versa.

[@pitchforkcustom]

salute oliver cromwell forever ? not a chance

[@NicoDraak74]

He is such a good live performer up until the last word ('foreverrr") he coulld almost be lip syncing to the studio recording. Amazing singer, and this song had so much energy.

[@juanpi7974]

Cinical pirates, becomes critical when the ultra Mar empire begins decay. I don't know if it right spell but I think the idea it's expressed

[@someguy779]

Spell check and elaborate

[@jordanklinski8944]

No creo que Morrissey haya estado vivo en la época de los piratas, o tendría unos 300 años. Además de que siempre fue crítico de la corona y ha hablado pestes de la Thatcher incluso después de muerta.

[@hannahtaybooks]

Ahead of his time.

[@peterdavid22]

Not buying the dying “with both hands untied” part. Sad. No messiahs ya’ll

[@wootuser]

Unfortunate this song was shunned and Morrissey was attacked by news media outlets when it was getting invaded by a bunch of migrants. It's crazy considering people are getting beaten today by none native people for being proud of who they are.

[@djtrendsetta5766]

Agreed, but don't use _their_ phony terms like "migrants". They're ILLEGAL. ALIENS.

[@Talisman09]

why does he change racial to partial?

[@GavinHitchens]

Didn't he sing the line normally? "standing by the flag not feeling shameful, racist or partial"

[@Talisman09]

I thought it was racist or racial..?

[@GavinHitchens]

+taliwakka 27 I just checked the album sleeve, "racist or partial" is the line. 😀 happy listening anyway!

[@Talisman09]

+Gavin Hitchens i just listened it again.. for the 200th time.. and it's racist or racial. how dare you make me question myself :-D

[@GavinHitchens]

+taliwakka 27 hahaha I do love sprinkling the doubt about

[@g.p616]

If you identify as English you don’t diss Cromwell ….. He’s not as English as he thinks!

[@The1Green4Man]

Do you have any idea of the tyranny Cromwell brought on England? The dude literally tried to ban Christmas, he was a b*stard to our Irish brothers too.

[@drewosamu6694]

Morissey writes interesting lyrics but without Johnny Marr's jangly brights guitar tones to contrast his depressing lyrics the music is very very dull!

[@ed7519]

Drew Osamu: No, no it isn't. :)

[@teresawalters6358]

Never!!!!

[@teresawalters6358]

No way!!!

[@teresawalters6358]

Morrissey is unique!!

[@ashleyohohoh]

You're crazy. If you're comparing his solo stuff to the Smiths, you've lost. They're a separate recipe. That's like saying, "these triple chocolate chip cookies were so good, these sugar cookies are so dull" well, they're two different cookies, but they both have flour in them. Err... Yeah. Morrissey is a legend, and I did just compare him to flour, yes. Flour is amazing and essential, like him.

[@gusorion8151]

Morrissey is soo overrated 😂