{"id":485814,"date":"2019-05-14T05:06:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T11:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=835107"},"modified":"2019-05-14T05:06:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T11:06:09","slug":"watch-morrissey-perform-morning-starship-on-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-morrissey-perform-morning-starship-on-fallon\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Morrissey Perform \u2018Morning Starship\u2019 on \u2018Fallon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-14-at-11.59.46-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/morrissey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_morrissey\" data-tag=\"morrissey\">Morrissey<\/a> appeared on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-tonight-show\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-tonight-show\" data-tag=\"the-tonight-show\">The Tonight Show<\/a><\/em> to perform his recent cover of Jobriath\u2019s 1973 glam-rock tune \u201cMorning Starship.\u201d The suit-clad singer was joined by a live band as he took on the anthemic song with his classic croon, bringing in more of an jangly electric vibe than the acoustic-led original.<\/p>\n<p>The musician\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/morrissey-new-song-billie-joe-armstrong-wedding-bell-blues-819072\/\">new album<\/a>, <em>California Sun<\/em>, is a collection of \u201960s and \u201970s protest covers, including tracks by Joni Mitchell, Dionne Warwick and Bob Dylan. The album, Morrissey\u2019s follow up to his 2017 album <em>Low In High School<\/em>, drops May 24th via \u00c9tienne\/ BMG and features guest appearances by Green Day\u2019s Billie Joe Armstrong, Petra Haden, Young the Giant\u2019s Sameer Gadhia and Grizzly Bear\u2019s Ed Droste. Droste <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/morrissey-grizzly-bear-ed-droste-jobriath-morning-starship-cover-listen-811040\/\">appears<\/a> on the album version of \u201cMorning Starship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morrissey recently wrapped a seven-night residency at Broadway\u2019s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. During his final show, the singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/morrissey-i-wont-share-you-broadway-834482\/\">performed<\/a> The Smiths\u2019 1987 classic \u201cI Won\u2019t Share You\u201d live for the first time. The singer will head back out on the road in September for a North American tour. The tour kicks off September 5th at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. Tickets are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morrisseyofficial.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on sale<\/a> now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-morrissey-perform-morning-starship-fallon-835107\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morrissey appeared on The Tonight Show to perform his recent cover of Jobriath\u2019s 1973 glam-rock tune \u201cMorning Starship.\u201d The suit-clad singer was joined by a live band as he took on the anthemic song with his classic croon, bringing in more of an jangly electric vibe than the acoustic-led original. The musician\u2019s new album, California [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 05:32:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}