Morrissey still isn't happy with the fact that Johnny Marr turned down a major offer for a live Smiths reunion. After having argued in the summer – Morrissey claimed that Marr had not responded at all while the guitarist's management made it clear that the answer was a clear “no” – the former frontman of the English band returned to talk about it in an interview for Medium.
«I had given the OK to the reunion because it seemed like the last possible moment in which it could happen», said Moz: «We have all become old and so I thought that the tour that had been offered to us could be an opportunity to say Thank you for everyone who has listened to us for what seems like a lifetime. I have no emotional attachment to Marr, absolutely zero.”
Morrissey continues, this time commenting directly on today's Johnny Marr: “He seems to me to be the usual insecure and fearful person he was in the '80s.” «Only now the newspapers love him for his fake role as the Smiths' lone guardian. As long as he sits in a corner complaining about me he will have a pedestal that would disappear in the event of a reunion.” And again: «He says he finds me indigestible, but every time he goes on stage he sings my lyrics, my melodies and the titles of my songs. Is it hypocrisy or self-deception?
“He forced people to choose between Morrissey and Marr and I've had enough of his asshole comments. I have tolerated them calmly for over 30 years.”
