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No. Because to my knowledge The Who never displayed a worryingly ambiguous and arguably romanticising obsession with the bully boys of the far right, whilst at the same time tackling the issue of race with such sensitive lyrics as "life is hard enough when you belong here".
My point, which you seem to have missed first time round, is that you don't have to do much "gunning" to find Morrisey's relationship to race and Nationalism worrying. The NME were by no means the only people to do so. You still haven't satisfactorily addressed the question of how Morrisey refusing to explain himself despite multiple invitations to do so over the years can be reconciled with the idea that this is a vicious and one-sided attack on a poor defenceless soul... Perhaps he has the artist's "never explain, never apologise" excuse, but if so then he must surely be prepared to accept the consequences (ie, controversy), rather than complain to the extent of building conspiracy theories regarding a national music press (including but not limited to the NME) which has deified and mollycoddled him as often as it has done the reverse.
Oh, and a lot of people had the same problem with certain bands' (who could be defined as part of Britpop) use of the Union Jack and again dubious relationship with nationalism and national identity, myself included. |
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But, indeed, that's how silly it got.