Morrissey has spoken out again about the Smiths’ failed reunion. As early as the summer of 2024, the singer claimed that an entertainment company had made him and Johnny Marr an offer for a world tour in 2025. He said yes at the time, but the guitarist didn’t. Also – but not only because of this – Morrissey doesn’t speak well of his former bandmate.
Morrissey wanted to do fans a favor
The 65-year-old explained in an interview with Medium why he allegedly agreed to the reunion tour: “Because I felt like it was the last time something like that was possible. We have all started to grow old. I thought this tour would be a good way to thank those who have listened to us for what suddenly feels like a lifetime.”
The renewed collaboration with Marr was not an argument for him. “It wasn’t that I had any emotional attachment to Marr,” Morrissey said. “I have absolutely none.”
More than tense relationship with Johnny Marr
Then (as he had done so often in the past) he lashed out verbally against Marr. “He seems to me to be just as insecure and fearful as he was in the 1980s,” Morrissey said. “But he’s gaining more admiration from the press by acting like he’s the gatekeeper and guardian of the Smiths in isolation, and as long as he sits in a corner and complains about me, he has a pedestal that should happen reunification would disappear.”
For him, Marr is a king of double standards. “He claims to find me completely indigestible, but whenever he takes a stage he sings my lyrics, my vocal melodies and my song titles,” the singer said. “Is this hypocrisy or self-deception? He’s forced people to choose between Morrissey and Marr and I’ve had enough of his taunts. I have endured them in silence for over thirty years.”