Morrissey: Cut Or Uncut?

A little over a month after its release in Great Britain, Morrissey's Autobiography finally hit the shelves in America this week. But Smiths fans be warned: This isn't the same book.

Curiously missing from the U.S. version of Autobiography are parts where Morrissey talks about a man he had a relationship with in the '90s, a photographer named Jake Walters. A photograph of Jake Walters, present in the British version, is also missing.

Fuse reached out to the publishers of Autobiography at Penguin but have yet to hear back with any comments or clarification on the decision to excise parts detailing Morrissey's relationship with a man.

But fortunately, we also have copies of both editions in front of us. Here are five significant sentences that were cut from or altered in the segment about Moz and Jake Walters.

Cut sentences

"I am photographed for Creem magazine with my head resting on Jake's exposed belly."

"Indulgently Jake and I test how far each of us can go before 'being dwelt in' causes cries of intolerable struggle, but our closeness transcends such visitations."

"'Well,' said the woman in the British Airways lounge, 'You're either very close brothers or lovers.' 'Can't brothers be lovers?' I impudently reply..."

Joe Lynch, Fuse.

The key - and perhaps tellingly lyrical - lines; "walked in and stayed for 2 years", "He is me and I am he", and "I becomes we", have apparently also been removed - and from the new deluxe UK hardback edition.

(Though comments on Morrissey fansites claim different edits, and not having a copy of the US edition, it's hard to be definitive here).

Despite some reports Jake has not been totally excised from the book - and Morrissey was hardly revealing about the exact nature of their relationship in the first place.

And Steven must have known this curious new American edit would attract much attention, probably more than their inclusion.

Whatever, it would hardly be the the first time the great big Mo has edited out gay references from his work, or danced around the subject of his homosexality...

"Unfortunately, I am not homosexual. In technical fact, I am a cockosexual. I am attracted to humans who have cocks." Morrissey, October 2013.