People are having a pop at Morrissey for apparently demanding that his autobiography be published as a Penguin Classic. Not a modern classic, but a classic classic, alongside Aristotle and Aristophanes. I'm all in favour of people mocking Moz, a man so pompous he makes Stephen Fry seem humble, who thinks the fact that he once read something by Oscar Wilde and uses words like "shambolic" means he is intelligent. That a man famous for singing lines like "Your boyfriend he / Went down on one knee / Well could it be / He's only got one knee?" believes he belongs on the same shelf as Homer is both hilarious and terrifying.
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