10 major artists who were rejected by record labels – You will NEVER believe this! (+Photos)

7. Morrissey

He was looking for a job and then he found a job, and Heaven knows he’s miserable now. The cause of Morrissey’s perpetual outsider status is the same reason that employment offers him no solace – no sooner does he sign with a record label, he finds himself dropped.

For an artist that is properly beloved and still releasing excellent records, Morrissey has some significant gaps in his employment history as a contracted recording artist. He was dropped by Island Records after 1997’s stodgy Maladjusted, only to resurface for a brace of comeback records under Sanctuary. After again finding himself without a deal, he released the excellent World Peace Is None Of Your Business. From there, things went pear-shaped, with Moz again claiming that his label had rejected him following poor sales. SEE ALSO: 35 Nigerian celebrities bikini photos you can’t stop staring at! (With Pictures)

EMI also make the list of labels that Morrissey has found himself cast adrift by – they refused to fund the South American leg of his 2009 world tour. EMI have past form in amusing rejection of artists – they sent back a demo by the heavy metal group, Venom in the 80’s with a note that simply read, “F*** Off”. Perhaps the ever-sensitive Steven Patrick Morrissey got off lightly.