Johnny Marr, the lead guitarist for The Smiths, is demanding former President Donald Trump stop using the band’s songs at campaign events, making him the latest pop star to publicly rebuke Trump.
Andy Rourke, bass guitarist for influential British rock band The Smiths, has died. The band made the announcement on Friday. He was 59. Guitarist Johnny Marr confirmed “with deep sadness” that Rourke died after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer.
For maybe the first time in their deluded, cosseted, snowflake bubble lives, progressive music fans are finally getting a taste of something that conservative music fans have to put up with all the time: the misery of discovering that your pop icon hero just doesn’t share your politics.
British musician Morrissey says if given the chance, he’d kill President Donald Trump to ensure the “safety of humanity.”
English rock star and animal rights activist Morrissey has penned an essay to General Motors protesting the alleged mistreatment of animals by leather suppliers that manufacture interiors for the automaker.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) teamed up with “The Smiths” and released a retro, 80’s-style video game app titled “This Beautiful Creature Must Die,” set against an arcade-version of the group’s 1985 hit song, “Meat is Murder.”
The iconic, charismatic Morrissey, originally of Manchester indie band The Smiths, now a solo artist, announced his return to Israel with two concerts, on August 22 in Tel Aviv’s Heichal HaTarbut and August 24 in the Caesarea ampitheater.
Former Smiths frontman Morrissey canceled a planned concert in Iceland because the venue did not take its meat dishes off the menu. A fan site for the singer, True to You, reports that Morrissey canceled the gig at Harpa Concert