Morrissey accuses Johnny Marr of blocking The Smiths’ activities
Morrissey posted a message on his official website (look here) in which he reveals that the release of a greatest hits album of the band was planned for this year Smiths titled “Smiths rule ok!” but the publication was blocked by the former guitarist of the English band Johnny Marr. The message also reveals Marr has also blocked the release of a celebratory box set for the 40th anniversary of “The Smiths”the British group’s first album, and a reissue of the band’s 1983 debut single “Hand In Glove”.
This is what was reported by Morrissey: “The Smiths’ greatest hits album ‘Smiths Rule OK!’ has been blocked by J Marr. The album and the single ‘Hand In Glove’ were due for a worldwide release in 2024 by Warner Records along with a deluxe box set release of the Smiths’ first album to commemorate its 40th anniversary and also a new 7-inch of ‘This Charming Man’. Warner approached Morrissey and Darren Evans to put together artwork for all four releases, all of which were rejected and blocked outright by J Marr.”
These new claims of
Morrissey
they go hand in hand with
those expressed a few weeks ago
in which he had revealed that
Johnny Marr
had ignored a particularly lucrative offer from AEG Entertainment Group to reunite the band and tour the world in 2025.
Earlier this week,
Morrissey
he claimed he was gagged over the release of his album
“Bonfire Of The
“Teenagers”
which he recorded between 2020 and 2021 and which has not yet been released. The album’s title track is a song that, according to him, is about 9/11 in England, namely the attack on the Manchester Arena in 2017.
Morrissey
he explained: “The Manchester Arena attack was our 9/11. But in this sad country of ours, to understand the full significance of the attack is to be guilty, which is why ‘don’t look back in anger’ has always seemed to me to be derisive and not at all an expression of social harmony. Once you edit yourself or censor yourself, the idiots have won. There is no art media in England anymore, so there is no one I can sit down and talk to about this. The fact is that real artists in England are now being held hostage by people who oppose any kind of alternative opinion.”
