The Smiths - Morrissey interview 1984

The Smiths, Morrissey interviewed by Nicky Horne for Ear Say, July 7th 1984. Recorded at SP on TDK Super Avilyn E-180 VHS, mono audio.
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[@ScottishTeeVee]

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[@amigs13]

"Brief spasms of employment" He reminds me why I love language.

[@richalderson6069]

There's no-one else in popular music like Morrissey, he's a one-off and is a great songwriter and performer.

[@quite.unloveable]

words cannot express how much i love this man. i found his lyrics when i was at my absolute lowest, as a depressed teenager also spending a preoccupying amount of time secluded in her bedroom. said bedroom got filled with the sound coming from smiths records, and together with feeling miserable i finally felt truly understood for the first time in my life. i don’t know whether i’d be here without morrissey.

[@ScottishTeeVee]

Thank you for watching and commenting, I'm glad you enjoyed this 🙂

[@nela5471]

Same...found the Smiths almost 2 years ago and I've never felt so understood 💐

[@diorsse]

me too, i'm 15 and i've always felt like there was something that i was just missing, that everyone else understood but me, and that it was my fault for not getting it. but i see a lot of myself in the smiths & morrissey and it's really helped me to feel less alone. like i'm not the only one who feels this way. i'm so happy they exist

[@nela5471]

@@diorsse good luck on your journey, it gets better from here 🌸

[@diorsse]

@@nela5471 thank you, i appreciate that 🫶🏻

[@deafen11]

Hard to believe he’d only just turned 25

[@uhh3788]

YO WHY IS HE SO RELATABLE?

[@gogom2938]

Love him.

[@ScottishTeeVee]

Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂

[@h0lysockbob401]

❤🎉❤

[@adeleassouline529]

love him, no matter what everybody (or he himself) says. Where would we be without his music and poetry ?

[@sodd1000]

Exactly where we are now. That is where we would be but presumably commenting on some other video or other.

[@mini_mozzer]

its funny because its always the disillusioned, mislead people who claim hes a racist or a far right sympathizer. everything morrissey sings and talks about is true, and has come true. england for the english.

[@EdwinJack64]

Touching to see and hear the young Morrissey. "Reel Around The Fountain" was the first song I heard from the Smiths. I bought all their records. The Smiths were one of the great alternative bands of the '80s!

[@Scotty-P]

I literally never even HEARD The Smiths in the 80's! I knew about them; of course, and read interviews with Morrissey, but I NEVER heard them at all!

[@EdwinJack64]

@@Scotty-P That is indeed remarkable! But I understand you made up for the 'damage' later 😅!

[@Scotty-P]

I did personal 'catch up' course with The Smiths in the 90's. It's as though I listened to them in the 80's. As far as 'jingly-jangly' music went then, I was listening to The Wedding Present and The Mighty Lemon Drops. But the thing is, I was/am far more into Electronic and Industrial Music. So, whilst I looked like Morrissey then, I was listening to Depeche Mode, New Order.....@@EdwinJack64

[@NITE_SHIFTING]

More SMITHS and MORRISSEY please. 👍

[@bjfcmorphil]

I too sought out the abhorently distant and obscure outcast while in high school. I loved being friends with the friendless. It made the relationship more valuable.I viewed the " Popular " kids as " Used Up" . Everyone wanted them and had access to the mere presence or desire to befriend , Like a Krack Head Cheap Whore!. Ironically, I was a "Popular " kid .

[@nela5471]

Damn, as an outcast, I wish I had someone like that in my high school hah

[@stevenlomas1594]

Oh nice one. The greatest music group ever. I remember spending fifteen quid in 1991 on a vhs tape The Smiths the complete tv appearances, this was on it. The picture quality was shite compared to this!!! Thanks for the upload man. 😀

[@cpulguz]

My favourite interview as of now

[@XxSPARKLENAUTLOLZxZ]

Drinking game: take a shot everytime he says "obscure"

[@benhallo1553]

Or delicate

[@jacobzamorano8483]

The interviewer was really focusing on sex in the interview.

[@Harry_84]

He was constantly asked about sex and his sexuality at this time. Very strange really.

[@edwardmulholland7912]

He got older and wiser and perhaps more even cynical about the world and definitely more weary about the “music industry”. But he has not really changed - life will wear you down eventually. The Smiths meant a lot to me when I was young and I still love them now that I’m in my 50’s. Morrissey has always spoken his mind. He attacked the British Royal family and the meat industry. The establishment fought back and won. Morrissey won’t be accepted again until he’s gone - then the media will proclaim that he was always a genius. Morrissey knows this. I don’t agree with everything he says, but I respect his right to say it. Portrait of an artist as a young man. I enjoyed this, thank you.

[@freya8133]

The establishment sucks.

[@melsagelord3991]

Light years ahead of the rest.

[@ScottishTeeVee]

Thanks for watching and commenting

[@melsagelord3991]

A pleasure.

[@shivipivi]

He truly was back then, as much as I’ll always love his music much of the stuff he says in the public eye seems like he’s going backwards

[@imgoingtocountdownfromthir4580]

I was a pupil at St Mary's RC secondary modern in Stretford, I was there when the report of the schools rather "excessive" corporal punishment record was discovered after an OFSTED report, i was in my first year in 1982 , when a Granada reports camera crew and reporter arrived outside the school gates around 3pm, just as we were going back to class after our final break, being rather exited to see a camera crew as giddy as most 12-13 year old boys could be (waving, shouting, cat calling, etc)....Our punishment, 2 strokes of the strap across the palm of our hands.....Ahhh, happy days!

[@INTJ91]

He’s suuuuuper camp here

[@Kenners.]

Morrissey was talking about my old school, St Mary's in Stretford, Manchester. now demolished

[@WisdomWrita]

Imagine they make a documentary movie of The Smiths with Jim Carrey as Morrissey

[@kukl96]

Love my Moz!!!! 🖤🖤💙💙💙

[@marpsr]

Did he say Capital punishment? Lol dramatic as always MOZ

[@bobconstancevanderwal1701]

corporal punishment?

[@bsaunders5271]

He misspoke. He meant corporal punishment.

[@th1agu]

And if he seems a little strange, that's because he is❤

[@emmylou2269]

hes so funny and posh sounding

[@ScottishTeeVee]

Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂

[@spote7047]

My god that hair

[@cap3207]

he made it attractive ngl

[@joan-lisa-smith]

...and now we are in a time where young men not leaving their rooms for a decade is common place

[@whataboutusshipman7760]

I remember watching this when it went out originally just before going down the pub, and in the pub me and my mates talked about it and my one mate said his Dad was watching it with him and when he got to the bit about being a sex symbol his Dad got up and said 'Right thats it I can't hear anymore of this' and got up and walked away. Happy days.

[@RileyJBooker]

I did become enormously depressed to the point where I believed that any kind of relationship was almost impossible🤯

[@nela5471]

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[@nela5471]

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[@SharkaToddy]

Is the full, unedited version of this interview available? It's very interesting.

[@ScottishTeeVee]

This is all that was broadcast, the rest was probably erased by the tv station

[@mjax8614]

You can find a longer version in three separate parts on You Tube, not sure if it's call hear, ear or ere say

[@higgolini]

When the interviewer says some say his image is “rather wet” what does he mean? I’ve never heard the word wet used in this way. I don’t understand…

[@uhhrynn]

I think it's meant in a way of soppy or something. Like sentimental. idk that's how I interpreted it but English isn't my first language so I could be wrong

[@Atif_Ph.D._Kate_Bush_Fan_Club]

0:18 Really? They were executing people at the school? Or did he mean corporal punishment?

[@heckinbasedandinkpilledoct7459]

🙃 good one

[@imgoingtocountdownfromthir4580]

I was a pupil at the same school as Morrissey, I'm still here to tell the tale....I certainly wasn't executed by the headmaster or teachers!...However i received a dose of corporal punishment!!

[@peterphoto7732]

Rotton school. Factory fodder. Yes I remember that.

[@DarlinJacq]

0:46 Sacred Heart AcadmeeyLOVE LOVE LOVED Me though...

[@UknownHeathen]

This guy speaks in riddles

[@32446]

What? I understand him perfectly.

[@aljack1979]

Very little eye contact.

[@grainnetaggart]

20p potao bread

[@laurawilde4784]

Capital punishment 😁

[@scum1979]

lol

[@grainnetaggart]

Celibacy patas and jips

[@vegetablehead]

1:06 i learnt a new word today thanks to young MOZ: ob·strep·er·ous /əbˈstrep(ə)rəs/ adjective adjective: obstreperous noisy and difficult to control. "the boy is cocky and obstreperous"

[@outis439-A]

yes i learned the word from him as well- in another interview.