Morrissey confesses he can no longer listen to The Smiths
The musician spoke out on his own website about the subject
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Your support makes all the difference.Morrissey has revealed that he no longer listens to The Smiths music because "his pride lies" with his solo work.
The former Smiths frontman opened up about the topic on his new personal website Morrissey Central in a divisive interview.
When asked if he would listen to his work from his time in The Smiths, Morrissey said: "Not. It was beautiful, but it's gone."
He added, "My pride is with ‘Low In High School‘, ‘World Peace Is None Of Your Business‘, ‘Years Of Refusal‘, ‘Ringleader Of the Tormentors‘, ‘You Are The Quarry‘, ‘Swords’, ‘Southpaw Grammar’, ‘Your Arsenal’, ‘Vauxhall and I’ … they are me, whereas The Smiths was a great but simplistic time."
Morrissey further expressed his adoration for his solo project saying he "cannot imagine my life without those solo albums" and added "even ‘Maladjusted’!"
In the controversial interview, the 58-year-old musician also talked about being accused of racism, called Hitler "left wing" and claims London Mayor Sadiq Khan "cannot talk properly."
He also expressed his distaste for the lack of press around the band members of his solo band after an "enormous" image of The Smiths was in The Times.
"There can never be enough detail to look beyond The Smiths, or to write a headline that wasn’t a Smiths song," Morrissey said.
The constant referral to his past in The Smiths he compared to people only associating David Bowie to The Laughing Gnome calling it a "morbid sentimentality."
Just as Morrissey is focused on his solo work, former Smiths band member Johnny Marr is set to release his third solo record Call The Comet on June 15.
A Smiths reunion seems to look less and less likely.
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