Kinda reminds me of the Beatles: they were around for 7 years, from 1963 to 1970 - I know they got together in 1957 but the band as we know it didn't really exist until later - and they were very young but already knew so much of the world. And they knew how to say it. It really is rare.

@@NotLeda Yeah I was actually just thinking of the Beatles too. Very short period of time. If somebody were to not have a single clue about either band, and were introduced to many of their songs, the natural assumption would be that they were together a lot longer. Even knowing both bands didn't stay together long, I find my mind tricking me into thinking otherwise. It's very bizarre. I am sure a clever psychologist could tell us why that's the case.

THE SMITHS ARE STILL THE GREATEST ROCK BAND TO EMERGE FROM THE GENERATION X TIME PERIOD....PERIOD !!! !!!!

The Doors and Jimi Hendrix only had about 3 years if success.

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lol

Endless Infinity French and italian clothes >.>. Looks like Denmark is coming to its Own with dandywear

Haha nice.

I demand a new editing

Well put I've been saying that for years.. A true smiths fan... Everyone at the time assumed the smiths had this left wing political stance...

Titling an album The Queen is Dead is pretty anti-establishment to be fair

@@MattJames1958 Absolutely Colin.

Nah they did

@@MattJames1958 I think they were just going with the popular punk movement at the time to sell more albums. I don't think they actually believed in left wing politics, clearly Morrissey didn't.

No kidding. It would be me paying $1,000 for a concert ticket, to see some old men who only vaguely resemble the young band I fell in love with, in a performance fueled by forced enthusiasm. And that's if Morrissey didn't cancel the show last-minute the night before.

hahha Fair point

It would be a truly incredible reunion. All of them are still releasing incredible music, so why wouldn't they live up to expectation?

Would much prefer the original New Order line up to reunite TBH

@@gregfalco4528 … and a drummer who is still waiting for the singer to settle a million pound law suit

Frankly Mr Shankly

That's right! The Smiths are legendary.

I actually really like Frankly Mr Shankly Golden lights is trash tho Not a fan of London either

Golden lights is a cover Work is a four letter word is really a bad song

@@ackeochteo Frankly Mr. Shankly is kind of a joke song, it's not that serious but not that bad

We already are

Yeah I agree. I love the smiths and Mozz has a good voice, but I just can't agree with his politics, but Marr I could get on with decently I feel.

@@theslightlyhillyrider969 maybe because your a pleb who cannot think outside the branwashing media hahahah

@@BBCmindcontrol nah mate it's cos I'm not a racist and I think the EU is something that makes us stronger as a country, and there's other things he's said I don't agree with

Yes, Farage is a decent bloke.

Hope Nigel Farage won't bring his foreign wife here to keep living on expenses, since he fooled many by using the immigration sound bite for the anti EU vote.

UKIP is mainly made up of Thatcherite ex Tories who think the EU is preventing the few at the top mistreating most British people, by making companies label genetically modified ingredients and allowing workers enough breaks. They wouldn't spend any money not sent to the EU on the NHS because they don't believe in the NHS. When Tories were last in power they lowered tax for the rich, while making life for the poor, unselfish or those happy to get by without being a slave for the few at the top lives as difficult as possible with constant VAT increases, bedroom tax without building smaller places for them to move etc.

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MJ H feeling apathetic?

Nobody, including the EU, has denied UK citizens their 'right to be what they are' whatever that is/means? We've been a country that has embraced immigration for generations. Ironic that there couldn't have been a Smiths if it wasn't for immigration, with the whole band having Irish heritage. Manchester is a city that wouldn't have existed if it wasn't for immigration. We're a melting pot of a city with influences from across the globe and that's what made the city both the first city of 'free trade' in the past and the vibrant place it is today. It's also a city that voted to remain in the EU. Many of us understand that racist, populist politicians blame immigration for the country's problems. When it's their own policies that have welcomed immigration in order to maintain low levels of pay rather than the immigrants themselves that have created the present situation. Manchester is a very different place to many other places in the UK and your views wouldn't be both recognised or welcomed there, because most of the population are one generation of immigrants or another. I've personally got both German/Jewish and Irish blood somewhere in my veins and I'm proud of that fact. Mono cultures are both rare and unhealthy, both culturally and genetically speaking.

***** And we went to war with the Irish numerous times.

I've got German blood in my veins. To be honest, I couldn't give a toss. Means absolutely nothing to me.

urbanhym1 What a load of bollocks! History is the history of people invading other places and ultimately assimilating until there's no 'pure' people left. 'Purity' means inbreeding and halfwits like we see in the British aristocracy, where they are all related. Why are the Royal Family so unintelligent? Because they are all marry their cousins many times removed.

dirkbogarde44 Doesn't mean anything to me either, but it's still part of who I am and why I ended up here. These populist, racist idiots need a history lesson.

So they use the same words like "culturally enriched"? That's exactly the bullshit they tell us here in Germany.

sky news - say no more

BayviewFinch that’s what I’m saying.

Well that's aged well...

Aged like milk

yankeydoodle101 so that makes it ok for him to support something that will cause the British economy to drop and make tons of workers go into dept

Morrissey is a complete knob LOL

Both Johnny and Morrisey are musically original, political views don't come into matter. It's not like Morrisey's reasons to support brexit are that original, there are probably loads of people out there with at least similar reasons to support brexit. I have hard critics against post-modernism but just being more on the left-wing isn't necessarily a reason to douche up on the person

It’s racist too be proud of your nation for some reason

dani cali in what way

If Morrissey is so proud, why did he quit the UK in the 80s and move to LA?

Morrissey has dragged politics into it, not Sky.

Blame the media ... god forbid Johnny Marr be allowed to give his opinion as to what going on in his country

Worth 14 million..wonder how much he gives the working class he so calls cares about..lol

@@daviddeidawhat drivel. Just because one has money that one has earned doesn’t mean they turn into racist right wing nut jobs. He left that for Morrissey to become

How is he their "vanguard"?

awakeintulsa he literally said there aren't any politicians he likes in the video, dorkus.

he should rail against establishments he likes now?

Hate to be technical, but that's what Moz is doing. ukip, now dead, is an "anti-establishment" group of aristocrats lol

UKIP anti-establishment? aye ok lol

I'm sure he isn't railing against anything when the royalty checks come. Lol. This is all just a bunch of pretentious, I'm above it all, nonsense.

@dani cali he may change his mind

MrTom1379 so true yet the left have deserted the working class in this country...UKIP is all they have now.

Outsourcing hurts more. So does deindustrialisation, what the toffs want is for the poor to hate each other

René Moncayo no it really doesn't I'm a builder I've seen a whole generation of lads get turnt away and lose jobs for cheaper foreign labour

Then the problem are the employers not people wanting to improve their lot.

liam Royce it also implies that the current market demands mobility of the work force.

Maybe due to Morrissey refusing to reform the band a few years before!

Who is Richie?

@@Puppy-lt5ur Starky

Think its Wythenshaw

Morrissey, maybe. Marr's solo albums are the best he's ever recorded in his career.

I wouldn’t say so when he achieved far more by that age than most do in a lifetime.

No he doesn't 👀

There's fuckall wrong with it bet your bald

@Jimmy Jenkinson Johnny helps Fender & Black Hair dye products going!

His hair is perfect.

@@isabelveidt655 He needs his sunglasses!!

unlike marr

Haha best advice

tell that to the silly eejits lapping it up

He lifted his best lines from Shelagh Delaney, ffs. Dearie, dearie me.

imposs1904 that was a very weak and untrue rebuttal

'A taste of honey' nearly every second line in that film is a line Morrissey used somewhere along the line with the early Smiths stuff , 'The dream is gone but the baby is real' etc etc clever lad I say

Maybe he saw the shithole globalism created in LA and thought. Maybe thats not a great idea....

@@karlwilliams2703 Liam doesn't dye

Well said... He is a good guitar player.. But without morrisey his music is just middle of the road crap... The best stuff he's done by himself are old smiths songs

Johnny Marr wrote and arranged every note of every Smiths song and is one of the finest guitarists Britain has ever produced.

Frank Mccormick well duh either that or he dips his head in tar

Just like Mick MacManus

So what

@@om-nj2hw Why bother replying if your nonplussed Dopey?

I don’t think ego came in to it. From what I’ve read it seems that Johnny found it all very exhausting as he became so successful at such a young age and was essentially the band’s manager in certain areas.

Well said! 💯

So proud he is that he's lived in LA since the late 80s

Morrissey has never voted his words.

John Trollston Lyrically and the image of the band,I would say so, also Morrisseys solo career compared to Marrs.....enough said

I'm not confusing anything, mate.

***** Yep, I agree, nothing to dispute there and I would also like to see that. Thanks for being civil unlike others in this thread haha

They might be liberal views now, not so much when the far left brought the topics to the streets in protest and to public attention.

Because morrissey isn’t an establishment bootlicker

How so?

Erm no

Corbyn was too far left for traditional working class voters. Corbyn was always a dangerous agitator, same for McDonnell his right hand man.

Cause he's a woke suck up

2012endofanerror my dad voted leave everyone else in my household voted stay, doesn’t mean we don’t have tea with him anymore

He wrote the music not the song

Song can't exist without music. It's meaningless to argue that. Morrissey created lyrics, Johnny wrote 'music', then who wrote the 'song'? ha!