Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance: 25th Anniversary Edition - Softcover

Rogan, Johnny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1468313134 ISBN 13: 9781468313130

Publisher: Omnibus Press, 2016

Synopsis

The classic Smiths biography Morrissey didn't want you to read, now updated

Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance is among the most successful―and controversial―rock biographies ever published. Having denounced the book and called for the death of its author Johnny Rogan, Morrissey later did a U-turn and cited it as evidence in the royalty-related court case brought by Smiths drummer Mike Joyce.

Now, twenty years after it was first published, Rogan has returned to his definitive Smiths biography to produce a completely revised edition based on new information and new interviews to add to the almost one hundred initially conducted over a four-year period.

Widely acclaimed as one rock’s leading writers, Johnny Rogan now brings yet more insight and analysis to his best-selling book that revealed, for the first time, the true and unsanitised story of The Smiths―the most important group of their generation.

60 b&w photographs

About this title

About the Author

Johnny Rogan is the author of highly acclaimed biographies/musical studies of The Byrds, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Roxy Music, the Kinks, John Lennon and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. His last major biography, Van Morrison: No Surrender, was included in The Sunday Times Top Ten Books of the Year.

Review

“A page-turner of the first degree” – The Sunday Telegraph ‘A bloody marvellous book.’ Melody Maker

“Personally I hope Johnny Rogan ends his days very soon in an M3 pile-up” - Morrissey

About this edition

• Publisher: Omnibus Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1468313134
• ISBN 13: 9781468313130
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 624