"I must be quite honest." announces Morrissey of the Smiths. "I can understand that people can find me very irritating. And I accept that to an almost absurd degree, because I know that I'm not...I'm not...well, I'm not really a pop pushover.

"And that can irritate people, because may want their music to be quite simplistic, and they don't really want any luss and bother and any seriousness. And I know I'll certainly never fit into that bill. But intimately i tool that ii people are saying no to the Smiths. they're saying yea it) Madonna. And I iind that the big-qest sin of all."