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Morrissey demands Johnny Marr stop using his name for ‘clickbait’ in interviews: ‘You know nothing of my life’
There’s no love lost between Morrissey and former the Smiths bandmate Johnny Marr, as the ex-frontman has asked Johnny to stop talking about him in interviews.Despite the pair’s long history together, playing in one of the UK’s most iconic bands, touring the world and producing two albums that hit number one in the charts, in recent years things have soured, to say the least.Morrissey, now arguably better known for his controversial comments than his music, has issued an open letter to Johnny calling for him to stop mentioning his name in interviews as he ‘knows nothing’ about him.In a wide-ranging letter posted to his official website, the How Soon Is Now singer began by saying it was ‘not a rant or a hysterical bombast’, rather a ‘polite and calmly measured request’.‘Would you please stop mentioning my name in your interviews?’He asked guitarist Johnny to instead focus on his ‘own career, your own unstoppable solo achievements and your own music’, and to ‘leave me out of it’.The former chart-topper, 62, went on to say that Johnny simply doesn’t know him: ‘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.’Morrissey wrote that the pair have not been friends for 35 years now – ‘many lifetimes ago’.When he and Johnny first met, he says, they were both unknowns, and ‘helped each other become whatever it is we are today.’‘Can you not just leave it at that? Must you persistently… blame me for everything… from the 2007 Solomon Islands tsunami to the dribble on your grandma’s chin?’Morrissey went on to take a dig at Johnny as he said the guitarist ‘found me inspirational enough to make music with me
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