“Unintellectual”: When a judge ranked The Smiths by their IQ
A harsh judgement…
Johnny Marr
The Smiths hit song Johnny Marr admitted copied The Stooges and The Velvet Underground
“The best song I’d ever heard.”
The song Johnny Marr called an “evergreen staple”
“You’d have to be made of stone to not like that song.”
Johnny Marr on the problem with pop music: “Melodramatic nonsense”
Music that never mattered that much.
‘Vicar In A Tutu’: The Smiths song Johnny Marr said was a “throwaway”
“It made a change from trying to change the fucking world.”
The Smiths song Morrissey regarded as “the best days of our career”
“I think it was probably the best days of our career.”
‘Strangeways, Here We Come’: the strange story behind The Smiths’ final album title
“Hideous Victorian monstrosity.”