An anonymous person writes in a comment on a previous article that the sleeve for the new live single is posted on hmv.co.uk.

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Francois also sends the link to an NME.com article that mentions the single details: Morrissey to release Patti Smith cover as single.

Derick Greene writes:

Thomas Dolby mentions Morrissey in an interview for The Onion's A.V. Club.

Last paragraph below addresses Morrissey.

O: Being a pop star in the UK for the time that you were, did you have to deal much with the notorious snobbery of the British press?

TDR: Yeah. It was very discouraging, really. The press is very snooty. It's hard, when you know that a magazine has come out with a review of your work, not to read it. But I taught myself to ignore it, because chances were it would be a bad review, not because I'm me, but because journalists aren't cool unless they slag off 99 percent of what they review.

And there's no way I would've been popular in Britain at the time, because I was never viewed as indigenous. The British are incredible at poaching cultures from elsewhere in the world, and just twisting them a bit and making them their own, whether it's blues music with people like Eric Clapton and the Stones, or reggae music with The Police, or African music with Malcolm McLaren, or Chicago house music, or whatever. We've always been incredibly good at this sort of imperialistic thing of bringing back the spoils of our plunders overseas and putting a unique twist on them, and a little bit of dry British humor. And I think that deep down, we have a deep guilt complex about that. So I think that what we do is we try to imbue our own homegrown musicians with a sort of indigenous nature.

People would like to believe that Morrissey lived in a housing project on the outskirts of Manchester, and that he got up every day, dressed in rags, and wrote a couple of heartbreaking songs before his tea brewed. But by the time most people had heard of Morrissey, he was already a millionaire. I've got nothing against him. I think that's great. But it's an unfair requirement to make of musicians to expect them to have no shoes on their feet, or it's not "authentic." That's not reasonable. That was one of the many things that made me uncomfortable in Britain at the time, when I was there.

working-class zero writes:

Read an article in Clash Magazine (with Pete Doherty on the cover) on the New York Dolls. David Johansen discusses how Morrissey asked him to perform at Meltdown. Initially, he was hesitant to agree but said to "let him sleep on it." Morrissey called the next day and David said why not, it would be fun, and he wanted to see the other guys. Then stated that it was indeed fun.

So much for Moz never using the phone!

sweetnesss writes:

Oxford musician Ally Craig has done a cover of "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" that you can listen to here.

David T (different) writes:

The Scotsman reports on European choices for music to be played at funerals. There is a Light That Never Goes Out by The Smiths makes number 3 in the Swedish chart.

More on the top funeral songs in this BBC news article.