“The press had also tagged the Smiths ‘Mozzer’s men,’ a docket that enraged Johnny and which hacked at our umbilical cord,” he writes. He does also hint that Marr found it hard to accept Morrissey being the band’s real star. He says he and Johnny Marr were exhausted and that nobody was sensible enough to suggest they both just take a holiday. It happened as quickly and as unemotionally as this sentence took to describe it.” No such luck: “At the close of the Strangeways sessions there took place a glut of meetings with accountants and lawyers at the Wool Hall Studio, and in the context of such, the Smiths breathed a last exhausted sigh and folded. The story behind the band’s mystifying collapse has been the subject of endless speculation, which some hoped might come to an end once Morrissey finally published his memoirs. “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now” gave way to the warmth of “Now My Heart Is Full” at the start of the 1994 album Vauxhall and I.Ĭoming at the height of their powers, the Smiths’ breakup was a real shock. “There will be no secrets of flesh or fantasy he is me and I am him.' As the relationship blossomed, there was a noticeable upturn in the tone of Morrissey’s work. “His leap towards me is as uncharted as mine to him,” he said.

In his mid-30s, Morrissey was now an ex-member of the Smiths and a veteran heartthrob who had rejected the lascivious lifestyle favored by many of his pop contemporaries.

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