This charming man continues to provoke.
Red smoke emerges from the stage of the Castro Theatre at Morrissey's concert in San Francisco on November 19, 2022.English singer Steven Patrick Morrissey is no stranger to controversy and provocation, and at a sold-out show at the Castro Theatre on Saturday night, he struck again.
Morrissey is the former frontman and lyricist of the Smiths, the legendary ‘80s indie band that rose from the drudgery of Thatcher’s England. He brought to the Castro his signature songs of longing, compassion and loneliness, the songs that have created devoted generations of fans across a wide mix of backgrounds. That devotion was on display Saturday night, with fans packed in four or five deep at the front of the stage before the show began.
Nostalgia is a powerful drug, but to his credit, Morrissey didn’t rest on his laurels as the former Smiths frontman. He declined to play some of the band’s biggest hits, like “There is a Light That Never Goes Out” or “How Soon is Now?” He even acknowledged that he could not sing the latter song as well as he did when he was younger.Morrissey plays a sold-out show at the Castro Theatre on Saturday night.
Nor did he hesitate to continue his long tradition as an agent provocateur. His performance of “The Bullfighter Dies,” which celebrates the demise of a matador, was mostly overshadowed by graphic video clips of bulls being gored at bullfights, closing out with the trampling of a bullfighter.
Morrissey invoked Oscar Wilde several times at the Castro, joking that “Wilde had once stood at this stage.” (He hadn’t, as the singer admitted immediately after, but the Irish poet and playwright did make
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