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Steven Patrick Morrissey, nascido em 22 de Maio de 1959 na cidade de Davyhulme, Lancashire, Inglaterra é considerado o maior letrista dos anos 80 e um dos poucos representantes do verdadeiro espírito do rock da década. Amado por muitos, odiado por outros tantos, perseguido por suas opiniões, estigmatizado, execrado, mas antes de tudo um tremendo talento. Morrissey está para os anos 80 assim como Bowie para os anos 70 e Dylan para os anos 60. Após o final do The Smiths, um Morrissey abalado tentou continuar a vida com os restos de sua alma atormentada e seguir cantando suas dores....

Bill Morrissey (November 25, 1951 – July 23, 2011) was an American folk singer-songwriter from New Hampshire. Many of his songs reflect the harsh realities of life in crumbling New England mill towns. Hailing from New Hampshire in the northeastern United States, singer-songwriter Bill Morrissey wrote about everyday life on the fringes, both geographical--e.g., fading mill towns, railyards, prisons--and interpersonal--e.g., instant infatuation with an unknown woman at a bar. He sometimes didn't so much sing as croak, but his understated, weathered voice blended well with the unsentimental, toughened characters in many of his songs. It just fits. His songs ranged...

Louise Morrissey's Biography Louise Morrissey has long been one of Ireland's best loved singers and entertainers. She has achieved great success in both Ireland and the UK, and has brought her easy style of country and folk to many other countries, including the USA, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. She has toured the UK with Charlie Pride, Foster & Allen, and Dominic Kirwan. Louise and her band visited the Lebanon in 1994, where they entertained the Irish UN Peacekeeping troops. Louise is the second youngest of her family of six. She has two sisters and three brothers. She was...

The high technical standards that Tubby Hayes had achieved by the late 1950s affected a younger generation of British jazz saxophonists, which rose to prominence as the 1960s dawned. Tenorists Dick Morrissey and Stan Robinson directly reflected Hayes' immaculate dexterity and broad forthright tone, and were perhaps the last British tenor saxophonists to be hailed as major talents while still favouring, initially at least, little more than consolidation of work by the then current American heroes. Morrissey's debut album It's Morrissey, Man!!, from 1961, is a thoroughly convincing slice of hard bop artistry, over which the shadow of Hayes and...