Johnny Marr has responded to an open letter from his former Smiths bandmate Morrissey in which the latter asked the former to stop talking about him in interviews.
Short version: I don’t think it’s worked.This all seems to have been triggered by that recent interview in which Marr said that he was still friends with all the people he’s been in bands with over the years “except for the obvious one”.
That being Morrissey. He didn’t really say a great deal about the Smiths vocalist, expect that they are both “so different” and that The Smiths was the only band he’s been in that “turned to shit”.Following a flurry of reports about that interview, earlier this week Morrissey posted an open letter to Marr on his website, asking him to stop talking about him in future interviews.“The fact is: you don’t know me”, he wrote. “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”.“When we met you and I were not successful”, he went on. ”We both helped each other become whatever it is we are today.
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