Morrissey Central "OPEN LETTER TO JOHNNY MARR." (January 25, 2022)

This is not a rant or an hysterical bombast. It is a polite and calmly measured request: Would you please stop mentioning my name in your interviews?

Would you please, instead, discuss your own career, your own unstoppable solo achievements and your own music?

If you can, would you please just leave me out of it?

The fact is: you don’t know me. You know nothing of my life, my intentions, my thoughts, my feelings. Yet you talk as if you were my personal psychiatrist with consistent and uninterrupted access to my instincts. We haven’t known each other for 35 years - which is many lifetimes ago. When we met you and I were not successful. We both helped each other become whatever it is we are today. Can you not just leave it at that? Must you persistently, year after year, decade after decade, blame me for everything … from the 2007 Solomon Islands tsunami to the dribble on your grandma’s chin ?

You found me inspirational enough to make music with me for 6 years. If I was, as you claim, such an eyesore monster, where exactly did this leave you? Kidnapped? Mute? Chained? Abducted by cross-eyed extraterrestrials? It was YOU who played guitar on ‘Golden Lights’ - not me.

Yes, we all know that the British press will print anything you say about me as long as it’s cruel and savage. But you’ve done all that. Move on. It’s as if you can’t uncross your own legs without mentioning me. Our period together was many lifetimes ago, and a lot of blood has streamed under the bridge since then. There comes a time when you must take responsibility for your own actions and your own career, with which I wish you good health to enjoy. Just stop using my name as click-bait. I have not ever attacked your solo work or your solo life, and I have openly applauded your genius during the days of ‘Louder than bombs’ and ‘Strangeways, here we come’, yet you have positioned yourself ever-ready as rent-a-quote whenever the press require an ugly slant on something I half-said during the last glacial period as the Colorado River began to carve out the Grand Canyon. Please stop. It is 2022, not 1982.

Morrissey. January 2022.

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Marr, January 26th:


Some related posts moved to this thread: Johnny Marr responds to Morrissey's open letter via Twitter (January 26, 2022)

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Related item:

• Express: "The Smiths split ‘bruised me emotionally, it turned to s*** with Morrissey’ – Johnny Marr" via Uncut Magazine - January 13, 2022

Media items:

• BBC: Morrissey calls on Johnny Marr to 'stop using my name as clickbait' - January 26, 2022
• Daily Mail: There is a fight that never goes out: Morrissey accuses Johnny Marr of 'using my name as click bait' and insists The Smiths bandmate 'knows nothing of my life' in scathing letter - January 26, 2022
• Far Out: Morrissey pens scathing open letter to Johnny Marr: "You don't know me" - January 25, 2022
• Fiona Dodwell: "From Morrissey to Marr: Why THAT Open Letter Was a Long Time Coming" (January 26, 2022)
• Guardian: ‘You don’t know me’: Morrissey accuses Johnny Marr of using him for clickbait - January 26, 2022
• Independent: ‘Move on’: Morrissey tells Johnny Marr to stop talking about him in interviews - January 26, 2022
• MEN: 'Move on. It's as if you can’t uncross your own legs without mentioning me': Morrissey tells Johnny Marr to stop talking about him - January 26, 2022
• NME: Morrissey asks Johnny Marr to stop mentioning him in interviews - January 25, 2022
• Rolling Stone: Still Ill: Morrissey Really Wants Johnny Marr to Stop Talking About Him - January 26, 2022
• Stereogum: Morrissey To Johnny Marr: Keep My Name Out Of Your Mouth - January 25, 2022
• The Telegraph: Why Morrissey and Johnny Marr hate each other (paywalll) - January 27, 2022 (transcript at Yahoo!)

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Just a guess - reunion's off
FWD.

 

[Surface]

I find this line interesting - There comes a time when you must take responsibility for your own actions and your own career, with which I wish you good health to enjoy

Wonder if Morrissey is suffering with something?

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

Oh my.

 

[SuedeMoz]

How has he "no had contact with him for 35 years", when it's a FACT they met up @ a pub a few years back, to discuss a possible Smiths reunion and possibly work together again?

Exactly, they also had to collaborate together on some of the Smiths reissues. Morrissey may have some valid points but he hurts his credibility when he states blatantly untrue statements like that one.

UPDATE: So the actual quote is "We haven’t known each other for 35 years..." - which seems accurate. I withdraw my comment above.

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

How has he "no had contact with him for 35 years", when it's a FACT they met up @ a pub a few years back, to discuss a possible Smiths reunion and possibly work together again?

Exactly, they also had to collaborate together on some of the Smiths reissues. Morrissey may have some valid points but he hurts his credibility when he states blatantly untrue statements like that one.

Actually Morrissey writes

‘We haven’t known each other for 35 years’

No use of the word ‘contact’.

 

[ALLIE WALLS]

Interesting he uses their first single signed by the others at that time with his sig being contemporary

 

[Stephen Hofmann]

So.....the Smiths aren't getting back together then?

 

[Famous when dead]

Subtle:

FWD.

 

[NealCassidy]

 

[NealCassidy]

Currently on most read stories on bbc news

 

[Dingoatemybabby]

this is the best thing Moz has written in years!

and for those that are defending Marr by him being asked about Moz in interviews: all he has to do is politely decline to comment.

Moz is 100% in the right!

But then the headline would be "Marr Refuses to Talk About Morrissey!"

 

[Billy A]

A typical article from The Cardigan...

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/26/morrissey-accuses-johnny-marr-clickbait

... which descends into 124mph eye-rolling:

"Marr is a left-wing, teetotal vegan who runs 10 miles a day. Morrissey has descended into infamy for his remarks on race and politics."

 

[Orson Swells]

Interesting he uses their first single signed by the others at that time with his sig being contemporary

It's also a song Marr assumed was about him and Morrissey: "Friendship. That was what had changed in his and my life. We had met each other, were working together, and we were in love with each other, in the best possible way. And Hand In Glove came out of that."

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

A typical article from The Cardigan...

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/26/morrissey-accuses-johnny-marr-clickbait

... which descends into 124mph eye-rolling:

"Marr is a left-wing, teetotal vegan who runs 10 miles a day. Morrissey has descended into infamy for his remarks on race and politics."

and from the Guardian too! surprise, surprise.


Well, at least they’re not sore at Johnny for contributing to The Spectator rather than them.

‘left-wing’ ? Lol

 

[Deleted member 30524]

I find this line interesting - There comes a time when you must take responsibility for your own actions and your own career, with which I wish you good health to enjoy

Wonder if Morrissey is suffering with something?

Yes....
Norecorddealism.

 

[Benny-the-British-Butcher]

“OPEN LETTER TO STEVEN MORRISSEY”

Dear Steve
Its over !
The teenagers who once upon a time loved you !! They have woke up, yawned and cancelled you. You were good in your time but the gimmick act became a very tedious and devious affair. Having to listen to you and those Lawnmowers bastardise those hits over and over until they were barely recognisable. Having to listen to all that vegan shite whilst secretly eating Kerrygold Dubliner and wearing wool and cashmere clothing whilst residing in leather clad 5* meat loving Pestana group hotels around the planet. And all those lies! Recorded lies! Der Spiegel lies!
Having a pop at the NHS for the way they failed your Mother (rolls eyes)
The Wizard of Moz has been caught out it’s all been a gimmick. There’s only a handful of Munchkins left now who want to hear the next “best album you’ve ever made” If only you could find anyone daft enough to fund it.
The party is over Borrissey. In Gods name go.
These days all you bring to the table are celebrity death statements.
Even the writers of the Simpsons got wise to “The gimmick“
And now this latest stunt is an absolute class act.
Turning and attacking a former very successful band mate for media publicity !
Priceless !!!!!

In the words of Judge John Weeks you are ”Devious, truculent and unreliable”.
Leopards don’t change there spots Steve.
Enjoy the royalties that bring you luxury’s.
You have been found out.

Goodbye.

Benny

PS. God Save The Queen
Best wishes also to BrummieBoy, we truly tore Steve a new arse in the old days Pal.

 

[Somebody-or-other]

and from the Guardian too! surprise, surprise.


Well, at least they’re not sore at Johnny for contributing to The Spectator rather than them.

‘left-wing’ ? Lol

What did he write about? Thatcherite economics, the trouble with unions?

 

[Anonymous]

So.....the Smiths aren't getting back together then?

Keep up, will you, for God's sake! You're so January 25th! Word today is that they're reforming next week.

 

[Janice]

“OPEN LETTER TO STEVEN MORRISSEY”

Dear Steve
Its over !
The teenagers who once upon a time loved you !! They have woke up, yawned and cancelled you. You were good in your time but the gimmick act became a very tedious and devious affair. Having to listen to you and those Lawnmowers bastardise those hits over and over until they were barely recognisable. Having to listen to all that vegan shite whilst secretly eating Kerrygold Dubliner and wearing wool and cashmere clothing whilst residing in leather clad 5* meat loving Pestana group hotels around the planet. And all those lies! Recorded lies! Der Spiegel lies!
Having a pop at the NHS for the way they failed your Mother (rolls eyes)
The Wizard of Moz has been caught out it’s all been a gimmick. There’s only a handful of Munchkins left now who want to hear the next “best album you’ve ever made” If only you could find anyone daft enough to fund it.
The party is over Borrissey. In Gods name go.
These days all you bring to the table are celebrity death statements.
Even the writers of the Simpsons got wise to “The gimmick“
And now this latest stunt is an absolute class act.
Turning and attacking a former very successful band mate for media publicity !
Priceless !!!!!

In the words of Judge John Weeks you are ”Devious, truculent and unreliable”.
Leopards don’t change there spots Steve.
Enjoy the royalties that bring you luxury’s.
You have been found out.

Goodbye.

Benny

PS. God Save The Queen
Best wishes also to BrummieBoy, we truly tore Steve a new arse in the old days Pal.

Good evening Ramsbottom. Hope all is well Ben-Jam-in, sir. Hope life is delivering a pleasant air to you and the family.
Much love x

 

[Somebody-or-other]

“OPEN LETTER TO STEVEN MORRISSEY”

Dear Steve
Its over !
The teenagers who once upon a time loved you !! They have woke up, yawned and cancelled you. You were good in your time but the gimmick act became a very tedious and devious affair. Having to listen to you and those Lawnmowers bastardise those hits over and over until they were barely recognisable. Having to listen to all that vegan shite whilst secretly eating Kerrygold Dubliner and wearing wool and cashmere clothing whilst residing in leather clad 5* meat loving Pestana group hotels around the planet. And all those lies! Recorded lies! Der Spiegel lies!
Having a pop at the NHS for the way they failed your Mother (rolls eyes)
The Wizard of Moz has been caught out it’s all been a gimmick. There’s only a handful of Munchkins left now who want to hear the next “best album you’ve ever made” If only you could find anyone daft enough to fund it.
The party is over Borrissey. In Gods name go.
These days all you bring to the table are celebrity death statements.
Even the writers of the Simpsons got wise to “The gimmick“
And now this latest stunt is an absolute class act.
Turning and attacking a former very successful band mate for media publicity !
Priceless !!!!!

In the words of Judge John Weeks you are ”Devious, truculent and unreliable”.
Leopards don’t change there spots Steve.
Enjoy the royalties that bring you luxury’s.
You have been found out.

Goodbye.

Benny

PS. God Save The Queen
Best wishes also to BrummieBoy, we truly tore Steve a new arse in the old days Pal.

Not bad 9/10

Should have included the "stop it's 2022" bit

 

[Anonymous]

The only retort I remember is "Our Frank" "frankly vulgar red pull over".

what is this in reference to?