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Morrissey reveals why he agreed to a Smiths reunion tour

Morrissey claims he was open to reuniting The Smiths because it felt like the last chance to make it happen.

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“He claims to find me completely indigestible, but whenever he walks on stage he sings my lyrics, vocal melodies and song titles - is this hypocrisy or self-deception?”: Morrissey hits out at Johnny Marr

The Smiths' former frontman gives a rare lengthy interview and indicates that a reunion is very unlikely to happen

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Morrissey hits out at Wikipedia for failing to ‘set the record straight’

Singer shared a brief statement from his personal website about the apparent errors

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Kraftwerk and Billy Idol set for new UK festival Forever Now

Billy Idol is among the huge names set to rock Forever Now in Milton Keynes next summer.

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"It was an opening into a world of rock 'n' roll, sleaze, sexuality, drugs, violence and danger." They might sound worlds apart, but The Smiths wouldn't have existed without The Stooges, the US punks who made Johnny Marr's favourite record of all time

In 1976, Manchester schoolboy Johnny Marr purchased a punk rock album that would change his life forever

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Morrissey's concert in Dallas cut short after stage invasion by fans

Morrissey's concert in Dallas on Saturday (02.11.24) ended early after fans invaded the stage and embraced the former Smiths frontman.

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“All of these things that I do on record using a few guitars, I've all got it in the one guitar that I can carry around with me”: Martin unveils 7-string Johnny Marr signature acoustic with an octave G string for added jangle

The M7 Johnny Marr is one seriously cool Grand Auditorium with an East Indian rosewood back and sides, solid spruce on top, and there is a six-string version available too

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“All of these things I do on record using a few guitars, I’ve got it all in the one”: Johnny Marr just launched a 7-string signature Martin acoustic – but it’s not what you think

Marr's latest signature model, the M-7 – also available as a regular six-string – features an extra string to provide his trademark jangle

Guitar World

“Johnny Marr offered his services to the band. He said, ‘If you can’t find anyone I’ll step in for a while’”: When Oasis needed a new guitarist, Johnny Marr was ready to step up alongside Noel Gallagher

Marr and the Gallagher brothers go way back, with The Smiths guitarist famously lending Noel one of his prized guitars after an early Oasis gig

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“Shredding is an amazing thing to be able to do, but when you can really write a feeling with a melody, like Johnny Marr did so well, that’s the goal”: Conor Curley of Fontaines D.C. on his love of Deftones and why he’s writing riffs like a beginner

Romance is the sound of self-confessed “guitar culture nerd” Curley expanding the Fontaine D.C. sound with elemental reasoning, pure instinct, and occasional Mellotron – and if he ever gets stuck for inspiration, he has a pile of Total Guitar back issues to reference…

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“It’s a mixture of a jam band, me as a singer-songwriter, and programming with late ‘90s, early 2000s dance music technology of the day”: Johnny Marr on how “Moogs, Korg 101s and Space Echo” shared space with guitar to shape his sound with the Healers

With Johnny Marr and the Healers’ Boomslang receiving a deluxe reissue, the guitar icon reflects on the album's sessions and the impact technology had on writing and recording it

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“Johnny offered his services to the band”: What Noel Gallagher said when one of his heroes almost joined Oasis

With ‘Bonehead’ gone, who you gonna call?

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“Morrissey has severed all connections”: Morrissey just sacked his management as ongoing battle with Johnny Marr rocks on

After a trio of claims against Marr and a precise retort from the guitarist, The Smiths' singer just went nuclear on his own team

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Morrissey fires management after Johnny Marr statement

Singer’s announcement comes shortly after his ex-bandmate hit back at his claims surrounding The Smiths trademark

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The Guardian - UK

There is a light that never goes out: is a Smiths reunion genuinely impossible?

Relations between Morrissey and Johnny Marr seem at their lowest ebb following disagreements over trademarks and reissues. But fans will hold out hope nonetheless

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“It was left to me to protect the legacy. This I have done on behalf of both myself and my former bandmates”: Johnny Marr hits back over Morrissey’s Smiths trademark claims

Johnny Marr refutes Morrissey's claims over Smiths trademark and Greatest Hits album

The Guardian - UK

Johnny Marr rubbishes Morrissey’s claim about Smiths trademark

Lawyers for the guitarist say ownership was shared with former frontman, who has not yet signed legal papers

The Independent UK

Johnny Marr fires back at Morrissey claims about The Smiths trademark and tour

Marr sets the record straight about reunion tour offer: ‘I didn’t ignore the offer - I said no’

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Heaven knows he’s miserable now: Morrissey claims Johnny Marr has trademarked The Smiths

Controversial singer previously claimed that his former bandmate had shut down a prospective reunion, as well as a ‘best of’ album

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“Get rid of the guitar player and get somebody else. Nobody cares.” Kiss' Gene Simmons urges Morrissey to reunite The Smiths without Johnny Marr, but there's a plot twist

The strained relationship between Morrissey and Johnny Marr just got a little more complicated

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Would you pay $170,000+ for an Epiphone Les Paul? Somebody just did, as Noel Gallagher’s “Definitely Maybe” rides the wave of Oasis reunion fever to fetch eye-watering fee at auction

The Sotheby's auction also saw Gallagher's Epiphone EA-250 hollowbody and Flying V exchange hands for big money

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"Smiths Rule OK! has been blocked by J Marr": Proposed new Smiths compilation blocked by Johnny Marr, alleges Morrissey

New Smiths compilation blocked by Marr, says Morrissey

The Guardian - UK

Morrissey claims Johnny Marr blocked new Smiths greatest hits album

Former Smiths frontman claims Warner Music proposed reissue programme including best-of called Smiths Rule OK!, but Marr rejected proposed artwork

The Guardian - UK

Morrissey claims release of new album ‘gagged’ over song about 2017 Manchester bombing

Singer says that every major label in London has refused to release Bonfire of Teenagers as a result of ‘Idiot Culture’

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“If the Church won’t condemn this atrocity, it won’t only be bulls slowly haemorrhaging.” Morrissey has written to the Pope urging him to end the Catholic Church's blessing of bullfights

He might not be able to get Johnny Marr to reform The Smiths, but Morrissey is now seeking to make a new alliance, with Pope Francis

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