Morrissey autobiography on Oct 17

Morrissey once sang: “You say that the day just never arrives/And it’s never seemed so far away/Still I know it’s gonna happen someday.” His fans could apply those lyrics to the publication of the singer’s autobiography, which is to be published in Britain by Penguin Classics on Oct. 17.

A representative for Penguin in the United States said the company had no current plans to publish the book here.

Just last month, Morrissey, the former front man of the Smiths famous for his brainy and gloomy wordplay, reported that the book deal had “collapse[d]” due to a “last-minute content disagreement” with Penguin. That statement appeared on Sept. 13, and said the book was to have been published just three days later, on Sept. 16. That strange detail, among others, led some to believe that the very existence of the autobiography was a hoax.