Diva Canon: MORRISSEY

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Inevitably really given the threads on him this week but here's a canon devoted to the Duke of Daffodils, Mozzer. Consistent wit or precipitous decline - YOU DECIDE with fifteen ticks covering his Smiths and solo work.



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Don't forget to catch up with the debate from yesterday here.

End of the Career Show

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Great 'final' singles - artists and groups self-consciously bowing out, bringing the curtain down on a career. The marketing-savvy world of modern pop allows plenty of opportunities to do this but sadly few take them.

Of course for the purposes of this thread I also want examples of singles that SHOULD have been the final one, not because what followed was particularly awful but because they would have been a supremely fitting farewell. In fact all three of the songs I'm going to use to start us off weren't ACTUALLY the last release by the act.

Madness - "Yesterday's Men" ("...hang on to today, to sing any old way")
Take That - "Never Forget" ("someday soon this will be someone elses dream") - this is the ULTIMATE example really!
Morrissey - "Boxers" ("losing in front of your home crowd")

Any more??