August's issue of Mojo ( White Stripes cover) mentions Morrissey twice.
Firstly, in a feature length bio of British group Madness:

Telling of their decline the article states that post dissolution in 1988, Madness member Cathal Smyth:
"would work in A n& R at Go! discs, hanging (sic) out with Morrissey ( "He wanted me to manage him but I didn't fancy ironing his socks").

Secondly, in the Q and A section reader Brian Strong writes in to ask:

I was listening to the Smiths song Rubber Ring and was struck by the female voice at the end saying, " You are sleeping . You do not want to believe". Where did this uncommon example of sampling in the Morrissey and Marr oeuvre come from?"

Writer Fred Dellar answers:

The voice is off a 1971 record-and- book combo entitled Breakthrough: An Amazing Experiment In Electronic Communication with the Dead. This record purportedly contains recordings of the dead talking: the bit The Smiths used is a translation of a voice saying an enigmatic phrase in a broken mixture of Swedish and German. This peculiar recording- presumably a hopt biscuit on the young Morrissey's turntable- was reissued in the US by the Bubble Core label in 2003.

This article accompanied by a small picture of a Smiths era Morrissey holding a banjo lying on a mock-up of his own grave, the epitaph reading: Morrissey
1959- 1986

Mojo info (but you need a subscription to view online).

here's the relevant excerpt of the Moz news tidbit (some actor in the Fantastic Four movie is a Smiffs fan):

Music from Morrissey and others was used Sunday night to illustrate a Channel 4 documentary on the working classes in the UK. Writer Michael Collins explained how the white working class had been left disenfranchised and disenchanted.