Morrissey asks Johnny Marr to stop mentioning him in interviews
nme.comMorrissey has issued a statement in which he’s asked his former Smiths bandmate Johnny Marr to stop mentioning him when giving interviews.In a post on his Morrissey Central website, the controversial singer-songwriter wrote: “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?”Morrissey continued: “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.
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