'Move on. It's as if you can’t uncross your own legs without mentioning me': Morrissey tells Johnny Marr to stop talking about him

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

Morrissey has written an 'open letter' to former Smiths bandmate Johnny Marr asking that he stop talking about him interviews.

In a post on his Morrissey Central website, the singer 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?" It comes after Marr gave an interview with Uncut magazine earlier this month in which said that the reason he's not 'close' with his former bandmate is because they’re 'so different'. READ MORE: Damian Lewis remembers Helen McCrory at 'perfect' poetry night dedicated to late wife Marr, who has also been a member of Modest Mouse, The Cribs and Electronic and worked with the likes of Nile Rodgers and Billie Eilish, told Uncut he was 'really close' with everyone he'd worked with 'except the obvious one'.

He added: "That isn’t that much of a surprise because we’re so different, me and Morrissey." Seemingly in response, Morrissey's letter goes on to say: "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.