THE SMITHS by Lawrence Watson - The Mouth Magazine

Link from Twitter post by @themouthmag:

A letter to Morrissey - Melville House
by Zeljka Marosevic

Link from Twitter post by @cogitoergodumb:

UPDATE Sep. 13, 3:05PM PT:

link posted by jbabz:

Clarification - true-to-you.net
13 September 2013

The publication of Morrissey's Autobiography remains with Penguin Books.

This is a deal for the UK and Europe, but Morrissey has no contract with a publisher for the U.S. or any other territory.

As of 13 September, Morrissey and Penguin (UK) remain determined to publish within the next few weeks.

---

Statement - true-to-you.net
12 September 2013

Although Morrissey's Autobiography was set to be available throughout the UK on September 16th, a last-minute content disagreement between Penguin Books and Morrissey has caused the venture to collapse. No review copies were printed, and Morrissey is now in search of a new publisher.

---

UPDATE - media coverage:...

Check out track 59 here, from "The Old Grey Whistle Test - The Anthems" album

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/old-grey-whistle-test-anthems/id649430356

Cheers to the incredible FLAX for the heads-up (by the way, he's got an amazing Smiths-related project on the go at the moment)

*EDIT* order appears to be different on my itunes store, where it's at no. 35

Glenn writes:

Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr has stated that it should have been Morrissey who recorded the group's legendary song Don't You (Forget About Me).

Simple Minds on 'Don't You (Forget About Me)': Morrissey should have done it - Digital Spy

Excerpt:

"It was great fun, and then we met John and apart from the whole movies thing, he was such a music fan. Strangely enough he was such an English music fan - Psychedelic Furs and The Cure and Morrissey.

"In fact the other day I was thinking it was really Morrissey that should have done 'Don't You (Forget About Me)'. On his death bed, he would never do it, but that kind of lyric... It wasn't really a Simple Minds thing.

"But musically I think when you hear it coming on the radio, I think we put our Simple Minds heart into it. It'll never be one of ours, but in a way it's a song that belongs...

Link from lucemarrvelousofs / Tumblr:

The secrets of songwriters - The Guardian
The day the Kinks overtook the Beatles, why the Clash wrote 'Rock the Casbah', when Johnny Marr first drove to Morrissey's house … Daniel Rachel has interviewed many of the nation's best songwriters. Here are some highlights

Excerpt from Johnny Marr segment:

Did you ever write together?
Once, which was "Half a Person": that was incredibly uncanny. The morning we were supposed to do the B-side he said, "What are we going to do?" I picked up the guitar and said, "Maybe it should go like this?' and he hummed the melody whilst I found some chords. It was done in like four minutes. We did it that one time because the tape was rolling in the next room and we hadn't come up with something. It was just a necessity. We'd decided, very...

From Stephen:

Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead
Presents The Smiths and friends

Iconic musicians photographed by Stephen Wright http://www.smithsphotos.com

10 -29 SEPTEMBER

Stephen started his career photographing musicians live. As time went on these included many well known names – Madonna, Prince, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, James Brown and many more!

His most famous image ironically was a posed of the Smiths outside the Salford Lads Club for the Queen is Dead album.

“Stephen Wright’s original photograph, used for the inside gatefold of The Queen is Dead, clinches the prize for the most famous image of the Smiths” Will Woodward – The Guardian

This image is part of the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the Manchester Art Gallery and the Salford Art Gallery. All rather funny when the original film was processed in a darkroom in a bedroom -with the chemicals kept in old drinks bottles!

It's 60% Smiths – free entry shut mondays but...