It is, sadly, commonplace to hear it said that between 1994's sublime 'Vauxhall and I' and 2004's 'You are the Quarry' Mancunian miserabilist Stephen Patrick Morrissey entered a fallow period of musical wilderness years punctuated only by two distinctly odd, prog-rockesque LPs, 'Southpaw Grammar' (1995) and 'Maladjusted' (1997). As with so many music press solipsisms this is just lazy journalism, but, of course, allows a 'good story' to emerge later in the form of a feel-good comeback tale replete with retrospectives, re-evalutions, multi-page supplements and much commentary asserting a 'return to form', 'my how we have missed him/her' etc etc This occasional column will aim to dispel, nay disprove, such lazy attempts to dismiss forgotten nuggets of pop genius or the period's of an artist's musical life in which they were created. So here goes - wrap your ears around this, me hearties: Reader Meet Author (1995) and Ambitious Outsiders (1997)
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