But if you choose to abstain, like Morrissey, then the path through life isn’t quite so smooth, particularly within the music industry.
“I’ve gone through managers like people go through Shredded Wheat,” he told the novelist Michael Bracewell in 1995. “Nobody looks after you, which is why most groups end up disbanding and most artists end up dead, or on heroin.”
Len Brown’s biography, ‘Meetings With Morrissey,’ is published by Omnibus.
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