Morrissey

About this product

After embarking on a year-and-a-half Greatest Hits tour, it made sense that Morrissey should release a companion album. Featuring the best music of his solo career, Greatest Hits was also a platform to launch two new tracks, 'That's How People Grow Up' and 'All You Need Is Me' and subsequently entered the charts at Number Five. The Deluxe 2CD Edition includes an eight-track live CD which was recorded at the Hollywood Bowl in 2007.

Far from spelling the end of his career as so many Greatest Hits packages do, Morrissey's came at the height of his comeback. With the public's appetite suitably whetted by the likes of You Are The Quarry and Ringleader of the Tormentors, Greatest Hits was long overdue.

Celebrating his most successful and much-loved numbers from 'Viva Hate' onwards, it offers a glimpse into the life of the man Paul Morley once described as "the poet of a generation". But since he has been doing his inimitable thing for 30 years now, it seems he's captured the interest of a whole new generation, and the two luminous new tracks on this album demonstrate exactly why