Morrissey has paid a touching tribute to his former bandmate Andy Rourke saying he 'will never die as long as his music is heard'.
It was announced on Friday that Rourke, bass player in The Smiths, had died at the age of 59 'after a lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer'.
In an online tribute Morrissey said Rourke 'didn’t ever know his own power' adding: 'Nothing that he played had been played by someone else'.
The Smiths’ guitarist Johnny Marr was among those to lead tributes, alongside other musicians including The Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess and folk singer Billy Bragg. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community In a statement, Morrissey said: "Sometimes one of the most radical things you can do is to speak clearly.
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