Former Smiths frontman claims Warner Music proposed reissue programme including best-of called Smiths Rule OK!, but Marr rejected proposed artwork
, claiming that a greatest hits album called Smiths Rule OK! was being planned, alongside reissues of the band’s 1983 debut single Hand in Glove and follow-up This Charming Man, plus a deluxe box set of their self-titled debut album.and Darren Evans to assemble artwork for all four releases, all of which were rejected and halted out of hand by J Marr,” Morrissey wrote.
It’s the latest claim from Morrissey regarding divisions between him and Marr, who formed the Smiths in 1982 with bass player Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce. They became the defining British indie band of the decade, with Marr’s distinctively jangling guitar, Morrissey’s variously waspish and romantic lyrics, and Rourke and Joyce’s dynamic rhythm section ensuring their catalogue remains hugely popular today – the band have 17 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
Since the Smiths split in 1987, both Morrissey and Marr have enjoyed successful solo careers, and the group have never reformed, with Morrissey once saying: “I would rather eat my own testicles than reform the Smiths, and that’s saying something for a vegetarian.
“We are still in the grip of Idiot Culture, it’s everywhere you look,” he told the Telegraph via email. “Naturally I’m one of the first to be gagged since my entire life has relied on free speech. No, I wouldn’t remove the title song because I wouldn’t abandon the murdered kids of Manchester. Their spirits cry out every single day for remembrance and recognition.”
Morrissey was dropped from his previous label BMG in 2020, and signed to Capitol for a planned release of Bonfire of Teenagers in 2023. He voluntarily left the label before the release, saying on his website that while he didn’t initially think Capitol signed him “in order to sabotage , he is quickly coming around to that belief”. In April he claimed on his website that he bought the album back from Capitol, but told the Telegraph he didn’t intend to self-release it.
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