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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He's completely right of course. I'd feel the same if I were in his position.
 
Absolutely correct. It needed saying years ago in truth. Viva Moz. That's more like it.
 
Morrissey actually taking a stand against the shit that’s being thrown at him. That’s new. And it’s about time. Good for you, Moz!
 
Love this. Well stated…and let’s hope Johnny will now stop with the nonsense. And maybe sew his son’s mouth shut, too.
 
At this point in his career, Morrissey should be thankful anyone is talking about him at all. Let’s face it, it’ll be the Smiths he’ll be remembered for and not his solo work… well, certainly not anything he’s done in the past 20 years.
 
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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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Just a guess - reunion's off 😂
FWD.
Brilliant Morrissey, long required, otherwise perfect.
 
Jesse Tobias needs to keep his f'ing mouth shut and not get involved. It is He who has been a scourge on Morrissey's music for far too long. Jesse has detracted from Morrissey's music. At least Johnny added it to it for a brief time.

I'll be blunt, Jesse sucks and it's a shame Morrissey fans are stuck with that f***er.
 
It's sad that two people who once were best friends end up like this but one thing is true and that's the fact that Morrissey has never said anything bad about JM in interviews, he never even mentions him.

I don't blame Johnny much for it, it's probably mostly the press asking him about Morrissey but sometimes he seems to fall too easily into this trend of 'let's slag Morrissey off just for the sake of it'.

Sad
 
This should make JM feel emotionally bruised enough to piss off for good.
What a devastating break-up note.
 
As someone who is 35 I would just like to point out it’s not Many lifetimes ago…thanks for making me feel very old, Morrissey! Secondly why care so much if Marr mentions his name?? As If Morrissey has not mentioned Marr’s name when asked about him in interviews. Furthermore Morrissey should know better than anyone how words are taken out of context when an interview goes to print.
 
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