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Morrissey vs NME: Mozgate Part II
Music: Music blog | guardian.co.uk — ... the more the British identity disappears. If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity. But travel to England and you have no idea where you are... If you walk through Knightsbridge you'll hear every accent apart from an English accent." Cue NME outrage and branding of Morrissey as a "Tory." As the paper points out, this is not the first "immigration" controversy involving Moz and NME. In the 1990s the parties fell out after Morrissey was accused of "flirting with disaster" and racist imagery after draping ...

Sound and Fury - Morrissey Claims He's Not Racist
RadarOnline.com — ... our society." He also claims that the interviewer, Tim Jonze , was an "endless fidget" who didn't even know who David Bowie was, and that the magazine is out to get him because he refused to accept their "Godlike Genius" award on two separate occasions. Jonze, for his part, tried to get his name taken off the piece because he wasn't pleased with how it was "re-written." This isn't the first time Moz has been accused of racism in the pages of NME . In 1992, he came under fire for parading around on stage draped in a Union Jack flag as images of skinheads were displayed ...