nightandday
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He is?? ( I forgot to ask this before.) It makes sense for someone who used to have a drinking problem to be teetotal, but I didn't know that he'd become a vegan... and what kind of 'alternative spiritualities' is he into? (To be honest, I'm not entirely sure what it could mean.)Just the fact that Marr came across as the everyman normal bloke makes me more suspicious of him I'm afraid. And the fact that everyone seems to accept his version of events without question. It's very easy to put yourself in a good light if you've got those advantages. It's very easy to blame everything on "the weirdo".
Ian Dury was a lovely bloke who everyone wanted to go down the pub with. He was also a complete bastard to everyone around him. I'm not suggesting Johnny is a bastard but look to comments made by Craig Gannon about how Johnny treated him to get an alternative view.
He left The Smiths by informing the NME. He didn't bother to get in touch with any of the other three members and let them know personally. Just that fact makes me suspicious of him.
As for going down the pub with him, you do know he is a teetotal vegan into alternative spiritualities these days?
In any case, it's an interesting transformation. Apparently, he's not very sociable nowadays, and Beth Orton, who's worked with him recently, says that he spends most of the time reading books.
Did you ever get the impression that Morrissey and Marr had a lot more in common than people usually think? I never believed they were polar opposites as people say. Sure, they are very different in some ways, but they seemed to share a lot (for instance, in musical influences), which is usually a case with people who complement each other well.