Remembering ‘Bands Reunited’ - tonedeaf/thebrag.com (29 July, 2019)

Remembering ‘Bands Reunited’, the show that tried and failed to reunite The Smiths - Tyler Jenke / Tonedeaf / thebrag.com

Excerpt:

"With the iconic vocalist performing a five-date residency at New York City’s Apollo Theatre in May of 2004, the show’s producers hit upon the idea of simply staking out the venue in hopes of catching Morrissey before he turns up to soundcheck.

While this is a relatively solid idea on paper, its realisation soon heads south, with a six hour stake-out resulting in little more than Morrissey jumping out of his limo, heading into the venue, avoiding the crew, and leaving them without any hopes of a future reunion.

For many fans, the image of Aamer Haleem sobbing against a van is ingrained within their memory, as others wonder why they maybe didn’t try another approach."


https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/bands-reunited-show-tried-failed-reunite-smiths/

A brief article linked to the show as a whole and then focusing on The Smiths episode.

Regards,
FWD.

 

[Deleted member 1074]

don't think the producers knew much about the back story on most of these bands,have they never heard of the smiths court case,holly Johnson went to court to get the ip rights to the name frankie goes to Hollywood as it was his idea, and lost the case, so that episode was gone before it even began,fun fact, their name came from holly Johnson seeing a newspaper headline about frank Sinatra.