Former POTUS Trump included The Smiths’ 1984 classic (more than
223 million streams on Spotify) Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
on his playlist at his rally in New Hampshire last Monday.
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Although sources say that he played the song before at rallies, only now former Smiths‘ guitar hero Johnny Marr got notified for the first time of what happened.
This is his response.
“Ahh …right …OK. I never in a million years would’ve thought this
could come to pass. Consider this shit shut right down, right now.”
Donald Duck Trump should play the old Pointer Sisters hit instead.
This week he played 2 consecutive shows in his hometown Manchester.
Two spectacular concerts as Marr was backed by a 30-piece orchestra.
Solo songs, The Smiths hits and Electronic tunes were played.
Mojo #359 commemorates 40 Years since indie iconsTHE SMITHS burst onto the music scene and in tribute to their abundantly talented, recently departed bassist Andy Rourke, MOJO returns to 1983 to relive the freshness and wonder of The Smiths and their reinvention of guitars.
Also in the issue: Bob Marley – live, intimate and unseen; the incomparable Sinéad O’Connor; Gram Parsons’ Americana visions; Tony Visconti – a life in knob-twiddling. Plus: Hawkwind; Pulp; The Bee Gees; Bridget St John; Blake Mills; Pretenders; Yoko Ono; Neil Young; Herb Alpert; OMD; Paul Rodgers; The Coral; Betty Davis and more!
This month’s free CD titled ‘You’ve Got Everything Now!‘ features songs of The Sugarcubes, The Wedding Present, The Fall, The Pastels, The Three Johns, Red Guitars and more.
You can purchase a copy and let it be sebt to your home. Info here.
ANDY ROURKE, the highly praised bass player of immortal indie stars THE SMITHS
passed away two days ago, on 19 May, following a long battle with pancreatic cancer
at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He was born named Andrew Michael Rourke on 17 January 1964 in Manchester UK, 59 years ago.
Johnny Marr, his very good friend since their childhood, and The Smiths‘ guitar hero posted this in memoriam on his socials.
Mozz is not happy with John Marr talking about him in interviews (well, Johnny, you should know by now that ONLY Morrissey has the right to speak out about other people)…
Band: THE SMITHS (Manchester) Active: 1982–1987 / 4 studio albums
Album: THE QUEEN IS DEAD – 4th LP Released: 16 June 1986 – 35 years ago today
AllMusic/Stephen Thomas Erlewine: “‘Meat Is Murder’ may have been a holding pattern, but The Queen Is Dead is the Smiths’ great leap forward, taking the band to new musical and lyrical heights. Opening with the storming title track, The Queen Is Dead is a harder-rocking record than anything the Smiths had attempted before, but that’s only on a relative scale — although the backbeat is more pronounced, the group certainly doesn’t rock in a conventional sense… The rich musical bed provides Morrissey with the support for his finest set of lyrics. Shattering the myth that he is a self-pitying sap, Morrissey delivers a devastating set of clever, witty satires of British social mores, intellectualism, class, and even himself.”
Full review here. Score: 5/5.
Turn Up The Volume: I’m a Johnny Marr fan. Unique fabricator of sticky melodies and a great personality. I never was a big fan of Morrissey’s moaning voice and I’m definitely not a fan of his nationalistic quotes/thoughts/bullshit but regarding the album, I can’t but say that this was their best one.
Singles: The Boy with the Thorn in His Side / Bigmouth Strikes Again /
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
