Letters by pre-Smiths Morrissey set for auction
I take back all that I've said about the Pistols... I'll spring on this unsuspecting world yet..."One thing I won't do is record for the sake of it... But then, I've always been a star, haven't I?"Morrissey also speaks about politics in the letters and his dreams of moving to America.One letter following Margaret Thatcher's election as prime minister in 1979 reads: "Did you vote?
- ▪I take back all that I've said about the Pistols...
- ▪I'll spring on this unsuspecting world yet..."One thing I won't do is record for the sake of it...
- ▪But then, I've always been a star, haven't I?"Morrissey also speaks about politics in the letters and his dreams of moving to America.One letter following Margaret Thatcher's election as prime minister in 1979 reads: "Did you vote?
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Letters by pre-Smiths Morrissey set for auctionImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Morrissey was one of the pioneers of British indie rock in the 1980sByEmma StanleyNorth WestPublished31 minutes agoLetters written by a young Morrissey before he formed The Smiths are to go to auction where they are expected to sell for £22,000.The archive of letters, written to Birmingham pen friend, Simon Pitt, who would go on to become the city's poet laureate, by the singer between the ages of 14 and 20, includes one in which Morrissey says "my ambition is to be a rock 'n' roll star or an actor, or a writer".Another letter dated a number of weeks later adds: "I always said I was a genius, but nobody listened."The letters, written between 1974 and 1979, are expected to fetch a combined £22,000…
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