About Maudlin Street

A Smiths/Morrissey research archive: lyric notes, discography, live history, media references, source citations, and curated reading paths through external resources. The archive is the descendant in spirit of the long-running fan archive Passions Just Like Mine — a faithful companion, not a republisher.

What this site is

• A content-first archive: indexes, schemas, citations, attributions.
• A provenance aggregator. Every fact carries a source.
• A companion to a local archival reconstruction of passionsjustlikemine.com.

What this site is not

• Not a republisher of lyric pages, interview transcripts, or full reviews. Short attributed excerpts only.
• Not a media host. Video and audio referenced by remote URL only; nothing embedded from this repo.
• Not authoritative on facts the local PJLM reconstruction covers.

Source authority

The local reconstruction of archived passionsjustlikemine.com is the definitive source of truth for every fact, page, lyric, asset, and provenance record it covers.

Secondary sources — retired Smiths/Morrissey fan sites recovered from the Wayback Machine, external review collections, advisor recommendations, and any other external input — are additive review material only. They may supplement, never replace, PJLM-derived content.

Conflicts between a secondary source and PJLM are logged as candidates for review, never applied automatically. No PJLM-derived page, lyric, fact, asset, inventory record, or source-of-truth assertion is overwritten, normalized, superseded, or weakened without John's express authorization.

The first planned future ingestion effort is Wayback Machine recovery from retired Smiths/Morrissey lyric sources. That phase remains future work.