Carl’s Rock Songbook, No. 132: Morrissey, “Bonfire of Teenagers”
A Suppressed Song
This song dramatizes and laments the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing attack, in which the Libyan refugee brothers Salman and Hashem Abedi murdered 22 and physically injured 239, most of them teenagers or even pre-teens, as they exited a pop concert. And it denounces the promotion by British opinion-makers of an outrage-squelching form of mourning in resp…
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