At Q online, ...in their review of the new James album Millionaires the writer quotes "We Hate it When Our Friends Become..."

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They say, although “they” are often wrong, that Morrissey’s 1992 single We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful was a rueful commentary on the career curve of James’s Tim Booth, whom Morrissey famously endorsed in their early days. If this is the case, then a better title might have been We Hate It When Our Friends Become Mildly Successful In A Bohemian Kind Of Way Then Nearly Split Up Then Become The Anthem Rockers Of Madchester Then Meet Brian Eno Then Nearly Split Up Again And Then Enter The Millennium Doing Really Rather Well Thank You....