Morrissey, the former frontman of the Smiths turned solo artist, has always been outspoken about causes he believes in but relatively tightlipped about the details of his personal life; in his new memoir entitled "Autobiography" Morrissey pulls back the curtain a bit on his life while causing controversy as he is adept at doing, according to Reuters.
The long-awaited book is being published by Penguin under their Penguin Classics imprint, a move that has been met with some controversy as many don't think that Morrissey deserves to be published by the same imprint that publishes the works of Oscar Wilde and Thomas Hardy, according to Reuters.
Eoin Devereux, a lecturer at Ireland's University of Limerick and studied the singer, thought the request to have his book published as a Penguin Classic was a joke, according to Reuters.
"However after a while I genuinely thought 'Why not?'" Devereux said. "It's a bold decision by Penguin. Why should the imprint just be for the dead? Morrissey is a classic in all senses of the word."
People have been speculating over Morrissey's sexuality for years and in the book the singer gives hints that he had a romantic relationship with another man in the 1990s, according to the Huffington Post.
"Jake and I neither sought not needed company other than our own for the whirlwind stretch to come," Morrissey wrote in an excerpt that was released.
Much of the 457-page book is devoted to complaints over a court case regarding royalties from the Smiths. Morrissey appears to still be bitter over drummer Mike Joyce and bass player Andy Rourke and their attempt to receive a 25% share of their royalties, according to the Daily Mail.
It is also revealed in the book that Morrissey wanted The Smiths to drop the classic song "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" from the album "The Queen is Dead," according to the Hollywood Reporter.
"The humiliation I live with, because this suggestion is everlasting since the song became - and continues to be - greatly loved as one of the most powerful components of The Smiths canon," Morrissey writes. "It is often a relief to be wrong."
