Morrissey fires management team after Johnny Marr refutes claims of “ignoring” The Smiths reunion offer

nme.com:

Morrissey has fired his management team following Johnny Marr‘s statement refuting several claims regarding The Smiths earlier this week.The former Smiths singer took to his website to announce that he had parted ways with his management, but offered no further details.

He wrote on September 19: “Morrissey has severed all connections with Red Light Management/Pete Galli Management.”It’s the latest move Morrissey has made following a string of claims he made regarding The Smiths and Johnny Marr.

Late last month, Morrissey said that Marr had “ignored” a lucrative offer from AEG Entertainment Group to reunite the band. Morrissey claimed at the time that he had agreed to the offer, which would’ve seen The Smiths tour “throughout 2025”.Last week, he followed up with another post on his website alleging that a Smiths ‘Greatest Hits’ album had been “blocked” by the guitarist.

But according to Morrissey, that’s not all – the singer wrote that the greatest hits album was to be accompanied by a ‘Hand In Glove’ reissue that were both scheduled for release this year alongside “a deluxe box release of The Smiths’ first album” and “a new 7-inch” of their 1992 track ‘This Charming Man’.Then on September 15, Morrissey claimed that Marr now owns all of the “trademark rights and Intellectual Property” of The Smiths, and can tour as a band without him: “This action was done without any consultation to Morrissey, and without allowing Morrissey the standard opportunity of ‘objection’.”Marr and his management team on Tuesday (September 17) put all of Morrissey’s claims to rest in a single statement.