NME's take on Wolverhampton '88

[Famous when dead]

http://www.nme.com/news/the-smiths/70471?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=qotsa
For those who don't want to wade through the main discussion.
Apparently the video was uploaded to this site!
Get the lawyers ready DavidT !

FWD

 

[mcrickson]

Marr was phoned about playing at this gig? That's kind of a surprise.
Perhaps this was a one-time Morrissey attempt to bury the hatchet, and Johnny wanted no part because he thought it'd drag him back into the stress of the Smiths.

 

[ADAM]

http://www.nme.com/news/the-smiths/70471?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=qotsa
For those who don't want to wade through the main discussion.
Apparently the video was uploaded to this site!
Get the lawyers ready DavidT !

FWD

But there's Mike Joyless ALWAYS ready with his rent-a-quote. Why can't someone in Ohio abduct him and torture him for ten years?

 

[Jamie]

Typically, NME is late for the bus and squiffy with the facts. A year to the date since they last worked together? I suppose the two singles and clutch of B-sides recorded throughout 1988 don't count then. The call to Johnny Marr feels like a speculative hook to jack up the juice in the story. I don't ever recall either commenting on this - and was it Rogan who stated that Johnny had sent Morrissey a congratulatory postcard on the chart success of ...Playboys?