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Morrissey

July 2024

  • Zoe Williams

    A Morrissey tribute band separates the art from the artist – but I still end up feeling queasy

    Zoe Williams
    His 2004 song Irish Blood, English Heart turns out to have been a massively leading indicator of how ugly politics was going to become, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

January 2024

  • a side-by-side image of Morrissey, Donald Trump, and Johnny Marr

    ‘Please let me get what I want’: can artists stop politicians from using their songs?

  • Morrissey on stage at the Genting Arena at the NEC, Birmingham in 2018.

    Morrissey treated for ‘physical exhaustion’ after cancelling tour dates

December 2023

  • Frankly, the Smiths

    ‘I feel more like myself when I’m Morrissey’: the bizarre lives of tribute acts

    With tickets for big-name stars at a premium, it’s a great time to be a tribute act. Artists from ‘Tina Turner’ to the Arctic Numpties take us into their bizarre lives

September 2023

  • Salty Brine in Bigmouth Strikes Again-The Smiths Show @ Soho Downstairs. (Opening 04-09-2023) ©Tristram Kenton 09-23 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Salty Brine: Bigmouth Strikes Again review – a self-made monster hit

    The Smiths’ songs are transplanted on to the gothic horror of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – and it works

August 2023

  • Brandon Flowers and Killers on stage.

    From ‘Nazi’ Bowie to Nixon-lovin’ Brown: six absurd political gaffes from pop stars

    The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers has caused an international row by misreading Russia-Georgia relations, live on stage. But he’s not the first star to stray into controversial territory
  • Donald Trump on Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

    Donald Trump on Fresh Prince? Richard Branson on Friends? The worst celebrity TV cameos ever

    From a former prime minister to an entrepreneur and heaps of pop legends, we’ve charted the most terrible television appearances made by famous people who cannot act
  • Michael Imperioli

    The reader interview
    Michael Imperioli: ‘I still give Morrissey the benefit of the doubt’

    The actor, writer and musician answers your questions on Buddhism, The Sopranos and his musical heroes

July 2023

  • ‘She was harassed simply for being herself’ … Sinéad O'Connor and Morrissey.

    ‘You hadn’t the guts to support her’: Morrissey decries music industry after Sinéad O’Connor’s death

  • Morrissey on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

    Morrissey: Jet2holidays must cut ties to marine parks over orcas and dolphins

June 2023

  • Rick Astley playing with Blossoms at Glastonbury festival.

    Blossoms and Rick Astley at Glastonbury review – Smiths hits are the very opposite of miserable now

  • The Smiths in 1987.

    A light that never goes out: why the Smiths are eternally influential

May 2023

  • Morrissey and Johnny Marr of the Smiths in 1984.

    ‘An astounding rush of real-time creativity’: 40 years of the Smiths’ Peel Sessions

    Not everyone finds it easy to listen to the Smiths now, but those early transmissions were utterly formative for this vital new band and their enraptured fans
  • The Smiths performing live on the Channel 4 TV show The Tube in 1984: from left, Andy Rourke, Mike Joyce on drums, Morrissey and Johnny Marr.

    Andy Rourke obituary

    Bassist with the Smiths whose distinctive melodic style was central to the band’s sound
  • Alexis Petridis

    Andy Rourke was the other melodic genius in the Smiths: spry, funky and masterful

    Alexis Petridis
    Rourke’s propulsive basslines worked in perfect tandem with Johnny Marr’s guitar parts to create the Smiths’ singular sound

April 2023

  • Poet laureate Simon Armitage at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

    ‘I’m a CBE, I’m poet laureate so I’m clearly not a republican am I?’: Simon Armitage on his radical roots and rock star dreams

    When Simon Armitage left his job as a probation worker to become a full-time poet his dad was horrified. Is the former young subversive turned royal appointee now part of the establishment?

January 2023

  • Morrissey and Miley Cyrus

    Morrissey says Miley Cyrus album exit was nothing to do with his politics

    American withdrew after recording guest vocals on the Mancunian’s yet-to-be-released new record

October 2022

  • Mo Mowlam by the Thames with the House of Parliament in the background

    Brief letters
    John Smith and Mo Mowlam led the original prawn cocktail offensive

  • L-R: Sheridan Riley, Abbey Blackwell, Molly Rankin, Alec O’Hanley, Kerri MacLellan

    Alvvays’ Molly Rankin: ‘We drive people crazy with the things that we want’

June 2022

  • Hitch a ride on the jubilee … a poster for the Sex Pistols’ 1977 single God Save the Queen.

    ‘The Queen’s gone round the bend!’ – HM in pop, from Slowthai to the Smiths to Blur

    She’s been called a fascist, a parasite and a pretty nice girl who doesn’t have a lot to say. So are all pop songs about the monarch treasonous? And are they really directed at her?
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