The Smiths and the missed reunion. Johnny Marr: “I’m not an idiot”

The Smiths could have returned to perform together this year for a world tour, for the first time after thirty -seven years, as many as they have passed since the dissolution of the quartet once made up of Morrissey, Johnny Marr, Andy Rourke (disappeared in 2023) and Mike Joyce. But the plans have skipped. If Morrissey had said he was ready to return to tour together with the Smiths, who refused the “tempting proposal”, as he defined it, was Marr. That now in an interview granted to Podcast Stick to Football he explained the reasons for his decision.

Marr spoke of “a question of principle”. But not only:

It was a bit of a matter of principle. But I’m not an idiot: I think the atmosphere was not the right one.

The guitarist revealed that the figure proposed to the Smiths “was dizzying”, even without revealing the exact amount, and added:

I like to do what I do now. I like where I arrived. I still want to write my best song and improve myself as an artist.

Johnny Marr has released four solo albums: “The Messenger” of 2013, “Playland” of 2014, “Call the Comet” of 2018 and the last, “Fever Dreams PTS 1-4” of 2022, which collected EP previously released.