Morrissey Claims Johnny Marr Ignored Smiths Reunion Deal
Morrissey has claimed {that a} 2025 reunion deal was on the desk for the Smiths, however guitarist Johnny Marr didn’t acknowledge the supply.
In a press release posted to his web site, beneath the title “War Is Old, Art Is Young,” the singer stated the next: “In June 2024 AEG Entertainment Group made a lucrative offer to both Morrissey and Marr to tour worldwide as ‘The Smiths’ throughout 2025. Morrissey said yes to the offer; Marr ignored the offer.”
The assertion continued by noting the 2 musicians’ present plans: “Morrissey undertakes a largely sold-out tour of the U.S.A. in November. Marr continues to tour as a special guest to New Order.”
If Oasis Can Do It, Can the Smiths?
Earlier this week, one other beloved British band, Oasis, introduced they’d be reuniting for a collection of 2025 concert events, sparking questions on an identical destiny for the Smiths. Like Noel and Liam Gallagher, Morrissey and Marr’s relationship has been on the rocks for years. The Smiths broke up in 1987, the 2 have hardly spoken since then, and every have pursued their very own solo tasks.
Online, a fan wrote “If Oasis can do it the Smiths can too (I’m delusional),” to which Marr replied with a photograph of Nigel Farage. It was presumably a reference to Morrissey’s assist of the far-right British politician — in 2019, Marr commented on rumors of a 2020 Smiths reunion by saying that Farage could be the one enjoying guitar for it.
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Just earlier this month, Morrissey posted a press release on his web site about “the Smiths’ rise in recents years,” saying: “We’re all in this together. It was always about a refusal to surrender to enemy propaganda — something I still face today just as much as I faced it in 1983, ’84, ’85, ’86 and ’87. The Smiths do not end.”
Marr has repeatedly dismissed the concept of a reunion through the years and has not, on the time of this writing, commented on Morrissey’s new assertion.
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