Morrissey’s Autobiography has become one of the fastest selling music books of all time reaching the top of the UK book charts in its first week.
The former Smiths frontman and solo artist hit the top spot after selling almost 35,000 copies since publication.
Autobiography is the second fastest selling autobiography since Kate McCann’s Madeleine, which sold 72,500 copies when it was released in 2011.
Morrissy’s work has beaten previous best-sellers by the likes of Slash and Keith Richards.
Simon Key of London’s Big Green Bookshop told the Guardian: ‘It wouldn't have made much difference if was out in hardback. Morrissey fans are obsessives, there are very few people quite as obsessive as Morrissey fans.
‘I'm delighted that they've published in paperback. I don't like hardbacks, they make bookselling elitist. It makes it unique, too - a book like this hasn't been done as a Penguin Classic before.’
The book was controversially published as a Penguin Classic but the format meant the work went straight to paperback.
Meanwhile, a panel of NME journalists have also named The Smiths' The Queen Is Dead as the Greatest Album Of All Time.
