Not to add fuel to the fire of crazy rumours, but a funny little detail I noticed a while ago regarding M & MJ...
They seem to have worn the same ring.
I first noticed the claddagh ring on Joyce in this undated Nick Knight promo photo (which I assume to be ca. 1984 because Nick Knight also snapped Morrissey for a May 1984 Blitz piece)
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...and it reminded me of this beautiful 1991 close up of Morrissey's hands (and rings) from Peepholism
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I didn't think much of it since this type of ring is quite popular because of its
symbolic implications and both of them being Irish and there are many years between those two pictures. But then I realised...
Same ring on M ~ June 1986
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Wonder if he
returned the ring in the end?
Michael, it was really nothing?
(for the record, I do believe this to be purely coincidental...)