Speaking to Billboard, the former Smith’s singer declared “I don’t know a single person who wants a Smiths reunion! But, no, there aren’t any bands I like to see again because your memory of them is how they were in their prime or at their best or at their most desperate, and you look to them to be someone that they no longer are.”
This follows their long term producer Stephen Street agreement that The Smiths will never reform earlier this month. Johnny Marr has always played down any suggestion to any reformation. It looks like the seminal Manchester band will not be playing anytime this decade.
Billboard also asked Morrissey about his health, he stated that he will definitely make it to Easter and “It was a bad year. I was in hospitals so frequently that the doctors were sick to death of me, and there’s nothing more ageing than lying in a hospital bed, trying to recover from hospital food.”If your illness doesn’t kill you then the hospital food sees you off. That’s what it’s there for. Anyway, it was my time to go to pieces. Much overdue.”
Would anyone really want to see a band on stage who absolutely don’t want to be there apart from the money, making their way through their greatest hits catalogue for the thousands of fans who are only there so they can add a tick to their legends jotter? Some bands are best left alone. Even Babylon Zoo.
