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A child in a curious phase“I don't dream about anyone -
except myself”
case closed
A child in a curious phase
A man with sullen ways
Oh, I know very well how I got my name
You think you were my first love
You think you were my first love, but you're wrong
You were the only one
Who's come and gone
When thirteen years old
Who dyed his hair gold ?
Oh, I know very well, I don't need to be told
You think you were my first love
You think you were my first love, but you're wrong
You were the only one
Who's come and gone
You were the only one
Who's come and gone
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Steven Morrissey / Stephen Street
I Know Very Well How I Got My Name lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc, BMG Rights Management
Of course he was but Johnny was straight, so it was hopeless - in the Smiths years Moz used to say he had only ever loved 'from afar'.
Their responses have varied over the years - Johnny's main variant being, "No because Angie, but yeah, in a way, but no.." and the Moz variant being "Yes but not sexually" (inferring that JM lacked the nerve).
"Were you in love with Johnny Marr?"
"Why doesn't anyone ever assume that Johnny Marr was in love with me? That perhaps Johnny Marr was madly in love with me, but didn't feel he could act on that - or that he didn't have the courage to ever take it any further?" - Morrissey, i-D magazine, 2003.
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"Were you in love with Morrissey?"
"No because I was in love with Angie, but we definitely loved each other" - Johnny Marr, The Guardian, 2016
"Morrissey and I had a super-intense, close relationship, as close as it can get without being physical.. but for him to have crossed a line would have been a serious misjudgement." - Johnny, quoted in Meetings with Morrissey, 2008.
my question is, would he still be in love with the old johnny marr? or was he only in love with the young johnny marr? like would he have actually wanted to grow old with him seeing the way he's turned out or does he figure he dodged a bullet? all im saying is, johnny marr could never be a member of suede now.
The link isn't on YouTube now but Morrissey once did a promo interview for a midnight radio show, "Night Line" in 1984 - I'm sure someone here will have it. Anyway, it's quite wide-ranging but at one point, a caller rings in - seemingly just to torment the poor git about Johnny.
Caller: "I saw Johnny Marr around town tonight and he had lots of teeny-boppers hugging him and kissing him...what do you think of that?".
Morrissey - "I don't understand it. I don't know how anybody could possibly want to hug and kiss Johnny, erm [...] perhaps he's just incredibly loveable?"
Listener - "they had hands round his neck, giving him big sloppy kisses and that.."
Moz - "Yes, yes"