In a new message posted to his website, Morrissey has claimed that he has been “deleted” from the “essence” and history of The Smiths.
Writing on his official website Morrissey Central, the band’s former singer has recently claimed that his contributions to the Smiths have been largely downplayed in several media reports.
“media shift”
In his online message, Morrissey alleges that the media have have wiped his contributions to the band from the face of this earth.
“There is also an obvious media shift to delete me from being the central essence of The Smiths,” he began, “but this cannot work because I invented the group name, the song-titles, the album titles, the artwork, the vocal melodies, and all of the lyrical sentiments came from my heart”.
Morrissey likened this to Mick Jagger’s contribution being deleted from the Rolling Stones.
“And so it’s a bit like saying Mick Jagger had nothing to do with the Stones”, the former Smiths singer insisted.
He continued, “Several news sites now claim that the initial meeting at Rough Trade Records was with ‘Johnny Marr and Andy Rourke,’ even though Andy wasn’t even a committed band member at that point. The meeting, of course, was Morrissey and Marr”.
“Even Geoff Travis [Rough Trade founder] has now suddenly decided that he ‘can’t remember who was with Johnny,’ even though Geoff looked me squarely in the eye on that very day and said ‘we’d like to release [The Smiths’ 1983 debut single] ‘Hand In Glove’ immediately,’ and he then more importantly said to me that his name was Geoff with a G, not Jeff with a J. The hounds are snapping!”.
“CANCEL CULTURE BEGINS AT HOME”
Concluding his post, Morrissey quoted the aforementioned track, writing, “Hand in glove, I stake my claim! I’ll fight to the last breath!” The vocalist gave the message the title ‘CANCEL CULTURE BEGINS AT HOME’”.
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This is not the first time that Morrissey has launched a scathing attack on the media, via his website.
Last July, the singer used his platform to blast the media regarding the death of Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor.
Morrissey took aim at the media, over their lack of support to O’Connor when she was alive. See that post here.
