If it's not Bom, it surely be a billion dollars to bring the Smiths back alive. Trust me.
They would smile eachothers once again.

This was up there over a week ago.

Poor Johnny.

he didn't say he'd rather eat parts of himself rather than reform The Smiths.

Didn't Stephen King ask a doctor how much a human could eat of themselves before they died?

Any guesses as to what kind of offers a Morrissey/Marr reunion would get?

It would be such a sad occassion to see the Smiths re-form. It would be awful. Please please please try not to live in the past. They were GREAT but it will never happen again.
Morrrissey today is great himself. I wish all the Best to Marr and it would be nice if he wrote for Morrissey one day maybe but an idea of a "reunion" is sickening.

Now we are stuck with two old man making lousy records, and Dick and Bruce siting in front of the Salford Lads Club wishing the days away.

But really the only way it could possibly be a go would be if Mike Joyce dropped his lawsuit, accepted the a settelment and 10% royalties (like Andy Rourke did) and publicly and privately apologized to Morrissey, Rourke, and Marr for making things so messy. And then the promoter would have to up the Smith's appearance fee to at least $10 million: $4m each to Moz and Marr, $1m each to Joyce and Rourke. Then they can donate whatever they want to charity if they choose. That should keep everyone happy.

Now it could still be done without Joyce- the recent Marr and Rourke appearance in Manchester showed they are still friends. And Morrissey's only real grudge is wil Joyce, anyway.

Thye could also just do a Morrissey/Marr gig and not even call it The Smiths even though it really would be.

Either way nothing would happen until mid-2007 anyway because both Johnny Marr and Morrissey have solo albums coming out now and they want to promote those for the next year or so anway.

We'll see what happens down the road. Plant and Page reunited (just not as Led Zeppelin). So did the Eagles. The Sex Pistols. The New York Dolls. Anything can happen...

Jay

"Money doesn't come into it. It never has. I do what I do because it's all that I am."

And that my friends should put paid to this stupid theory that Moz has become some avaricious old aristocrat.
Reforming a band has the stale stench of desperate nostalgia (and greed) about it. It's never the same, and it taints the memory of those young, energetic and passionate stars you once loved. It's like having divorced parents say they're going to give marriage another try even though they don't like one another.
Anyways, hats off to Moz and Marr for maintaining their integrity.

"I do all that I do because it's all I am"

Did he really say that? Or is the reporter paraphrasing the line from Maladjusted?

"You do all that you do because it's all you can do"

"Money doesn't come into it. It never has. I do what I do because it's all that I am."

Is that why he continues to release and re-release singles with scattered b-sides so that his fans need to buy EVERYTHING to get his entire collection of music? No Morrissey, you're a fucking hypocrite and you've softened up in your old age to the point where you're ignorant of your own gluttony.

Remember this... the people who are forking out hard earned money buying ALL of your music aren't running with the self-loving aristocrats (minus your band, of course... I wonder what stories they have) that you choose to surround yourself with these days. Why don't you give them a break and not make them finance your next home around the world.

i bet they jumped at it! i think mike is going to go round the upcoming moz gigs with a bucket asking for some spare change