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Johnny Marr Is Right To Say That Use Of Smiths Songs On Adverts Doesn’t Sully Their Memory

By Mof Gimmers

There has been the vague, wet, typical outpouring of mild-ire surrounding an indie band allowing one of their songs to be used in advertising. It’s ‘selling-out’ apparently. And god knows, that’s the worst thing an indie band can be accused of, right?

And of course, there’s a terribly saccharine John Lewis advertisement that’s doing the Christmas rounds this year which features a cover version of The Smiths’ ‘Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want’.

Johnny Marr is at pains to point out that the song featuring in a commercial doesn’t sully the memory of the song at all and The Smiths haven’t sold out, actually. And you know something, he’s right to say that it doesn’t sully the memory of the band.

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Morrissey Is Clearly Having A Breakdown As He Compares Norway Killings To Fast Food

By Mof Gimmers

Is Morrissey having a very public nervous breakdown? It certainly seems that way. See, at the moment, you can’t move for stories about him being wildly erratic and saying things which aren’t as considered as they once were.

Of course, The Mozfather has always been good for a quote and, indeed, regardless of the fact he has contributed to some of the most awful music ever cut to wax, he was always worth reading about.

However, these days he’s less a vinegary old tart with a razor sharp wit and more a bumbling idiot, dribbling out nonsense in a bid to get any sort of attention from the world. No, he’s not ordering security staff to strip-search the people of Middlesbrough for secreted meats, but comparing the savage killings in Norway to fast-food.

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Morrissey Hates His Fans, The Music Industry, The Smiths, The Internet And YOU. Probably.

By Paul Pencott

STOP THE PRESS! Or update the gossip website really quickly or something! Swarthy Alan Bennett-wannabee Steven ?Morrissey? Morrissey is a bit grumpy about some things!

Anyone who has seen a recent photo of the stocky serenader would think the irony of his well-known vegetarian fizzog currently resembling someone who belongs behind the counter of your local butchers has annoyed him but NO! He's grumpy about EVERY SINGLE THING THAT GIVES HIM ANY SORT OF A PUBLIC PROFILE EVER!

The utter WEAPON.

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Morrissey Has A Whine And A Bitch About The Royal Family

By Matthew Laidlow

If there was ever an example of a grown man acting like a stubborn child, then we?d have to point in the direction of Morrissey [or ourselves – Ed]. We imagine that if he was still at school, he'd be the child cursing the sunshine on a warm sunny day and generally mooching around the playground with a storm cloud permanently attached to his head.

For those unfamiliar with Moz, he was the lead singer with the vastly overrated and generally annoying band The Smiths. At the time, Moz and his band of merry men might have looked like radicals, but by today's standards, he's just a whiny tit.

But to his credit Morrissey has stuck to his guns and protested his hatred for the royal family. Despite the rest of the country recently warming to William and Kate, Morrissey is still upset with the Winsors.

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HecklerPlay: The Wedding Present

By Si Sharp

It's funny how pop history works. Artists and even entire genres can live in obscurity until they influence the band of the moment, and then, the spotlight of critical re-evaluation is shone upon it.

One minute ?post-punk? was simply ?the bit between punk and new-romanticism?, and the next it was eclipsing both and hailed as the most fertile creative period for British music. And all thanks to the way a few rock bands played guitar in 2005.

The way pop eats itself means that if an artist creates something unique or special, it'll inspire someone else to form a band. Eventually someone with a keen ear will recognise the original influence and shine a light on it. Then others can have the joy of discovering an often long-forgotten act.

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