Morrissey’s festive updates: no label, no management, no Miley
completemusicupdate.comAs the Christmas break got underway, Morrissey posted some updates to his website confirming that he is starting the new year without management or a label in place, and with one less collaborator.At the end of October, it was announced that Morrissey had signed up with Universal Music’s Capitol label in the US for the release of his next album ‘Bonfire Of Teenagers’.
Although, the official announcement of that tie-up was keen to stress, the deal excluded the UK where the often controversial musician is generally considered too controversial these days.At the time we wondered whether this alliance with a Universal label would end up going the same way as the last one.
Morrissey worked with the major’s Harvest imprint on his 2014 album ‘World Peace Is None Of Your Business’, but artist and label fell out shortly after that record was released.This time round, however, things have gone very differently.
In that artist and label have seemingly fallen out before the record has even been made available.We got a hint of that last month when Morrissey confirmed that the planned February release of ‘Bonfire Of Teenagers’ was now on hold and the record’s fate was “exclusively in the hands of Capitol Records (Los Angeles)”.
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