Morrissey Remembers Prince, "The Royal That People Love"

Morrissey is the latest artist to remember the late Prince, who died on Thursday at 57. In his memorial, posted on True to You, Morrissey praised Prince’s veganism and animal rights activism. He also took issue with media outlets discussing Prince’s life and influence without mentioning his vegan diet or commitment to animal rights. “They are identified as expressions against e$tabli$hment interests, therefore we, mere galley slaves, aren’t allowed to know,” he wrote. He also took the opportunity to criticize Queen Elizabeth and the royal family, calling Prince “the royal that people love, whereas Elizabeth 2 was thrust on the people who have never been asked whether or not they want her.” Read an excerpt below and find the full note here.

Prince was found dead at his Paisley Park estate in Chanhassen, Minnesota on Thursday at 57. Support has poured out from across the musical community.

Prince has influenced the world more than is suspected, and somehow the life of his music is just beginning, and he would be thanked not only by humans but also animals for living his lyrical life as he did. Humans, you see, are not the world.

… Prince, who made something of his life as opposed to having fortune handed to him, is far more ‘royal’ than Elizabeth 2, and he will be mourned far more than she, for she could never make herself loveable, no matter how many paid and promoted non-stories flood the newspapers of the world. The laughing gulls of Buckingham Palace will never allow you to forget who wields the stick. And, of course, we know very well what gulls tend to do on the people below.

Listen to Prince’s animal rights song “Animal Kingdom” on Tidal.

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