Watch Morrissey perform Smiths obscurity 'Half a Person' for the first time in 20 years
classic “The Boy With the Thorn in His Side” since 2013 but also the first “At Amber” since 2002 — plus live debuts of “Jim Jim Falls,” “Once I Saw the River Clean” and “Love Is on Its Way Out” from his upcoming albumBut he saved the big moment for the first encore when he broke out the Smiths 1987 obscurity “Half a Person” for the first time in 20 years. The song was released as the B-Side to “Shoplifters of the World Unite” and later appeared on their compilation.
Morrissey and Johnny Marr wrote the song while standing face-to-face in the stairwell of a recording studio. “The best songwriting moment me and Morrissey ever had,”. “We were so close, practically touching. I could see him kind of willing me on, waiting to see what I was going to play. Then I could see him thinking, ‘That’s exactly where I was hoping you’d go.’ It was a fantastic shared moment.”he listed “Half a Person” at Number Two, topped only by “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out.
“Any 10-second snippet of this song has more joy and anguish than most bands’ careers,” he wrote. “The Smiths tucked it away on a B-side. Keats, Yeats and Wilde would all be proud.”on March 20th. He is playing at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom on March 20th and then the Apollo Theater on March 21st. In late June and early July, he’s playing five nights at The Colosseum at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas.
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