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We don't get much background about where the ideas for songs come from, and there aren't even many anecdotes about the band themselves. The final 20% of the book were apparently transcribed from a tour diary that Morrissey began writing in the couple of years before he decided to cobble together this mess of a book.

(No. A full 10% of the book is taken up with this court case and the subsequent appeal, and it is easily one of the most tedious things I've read in my life. The band forms in the space of a couple of pages, and then proceeds to record each album in turn. (Sadly not.)

No, most of the book is spent building up to the court case where the ex-drummer of the Smiths sued Morrissey for lack of earnings.

You can be left in absolutely no doubt about his feelings towards the management at Rough Trade, as almost every 2-3 pages there will be some bitter reminder about their failure to promote the band, or their latest album.

The Smiths have split up about halfway through the book, and there follows about 20% following Morrissey's solo career following the break-up.

Why, yes, little one. Be patient.

What will it be? This is an unbearable whinge writ large, and published by fucking Penguin Classics, for Christ's sake.

Anyway, we're not done. That first 20% of the book was actually pretty good - it clearly was the section of the book that he spent the most time on, and it was interesting to read his influences and his passion and enthusiasm for others' work.

The next 30% of the book was taken up with his time in The Smiths.

I've never read anything by someone with such an over-inflated sense of self-entitlement. I mean, don't get me wrong, I thought that Morrissey was going to be "a bit mopey" before I read this, but I had no idea that he took the concept to Olympic levels.

The most clunking of these being the quote;

Could things get any worse? It's a tedious list of tour dates and capacities that rounds off the book in a muted, pathetic fart to try to glean some attention and remain relevant.