By Melissa Mora Hidalgo – NYTimes.com – Photo: Ryan Lowry.

I write very openly in my book, “Mozlandia: Morrissey Fans in the Borderlands,” that I have been a Morrissey fan for decades and have no plans to stop. But my fandom ebbs and flows. These days, it ebbs. So, when Nov. 10 came around — Morrissey Day, no less, as declared by the Los Angeles City Council — I needed something to remind me of why this man, deep down, still mattered to me and the thousands of fans who packed the Hollywood Bowl that day and the next.

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