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davidt
on Thursday March 30 2006, @10:00AM
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Smiths offered even more cash to reunite - NME.com Johnny Marr reveals silly money was on the table Johnny Marr has confirmed recent rumours that The Smiths had been offered a fortune to reform, but added even more cash was on the table. As previously reported, Morrissey revealed the group was offered $5m to play last year's Coachella festival. Now his former bandmate Marr has confirmed that the group have been offered even more than that in the past. "I don't really want to get into figures, but yes, I was made an offer for the Smiths to reform at Coachella," he told his official website Jmarr.com. "I was also offered twice as much for us to play in New York, Hyde Park and God knows where else." Despite offers believed to be in the region of $10m, the reunion has never taken place, with Morrissey stating: "Money doesn't come into it. It never has. I do what I do because it's all that I am."
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Abba refused a Billion (Score:0)
If it's not Bom, it surely be a billion dollars to bring the Smiths back alive. Trust me.
They would smile eachothers once again.
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Obviously no one ever looks at Johnny's site (Score:0)
Poor Johnny.
While Johnny also refused... (Score:2, Funny)
Didn't Stephen King ask a doctor how much a human could eat of themselves before they died?
Any guesses as to what kind of offers a Morrissey/Marr reunion would get?
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The Smiths Should remain DEAD forever (Score:0)
Morrrissey today is great himself. I wish all the Best to Marr and it would be nice if he wrote for Morrissey one day maybe but an idea of a "reunion" is sickening.
I wish money did matter (Score:0)
I Would Love To See It Happen Someday (Score:1)
Now it could still be done without Joyce- the recent Marr and Rourke appearance in Manchester showed they are still friends. And Morrissey's only real grudge is wil Joyce, anyway.
Thye could also just do a Morrissey/Marr gig and not even call it The Smiths even though it really would be.
Either way nothing would happen until mid-2007 anyway because both Johnny Marr and Morrissey have solo albums coming out now and they want to promote those for the next year or so anway.
We'll see what happens down the road. Plant and Page reunited (just not as Led Zeppelin). So did the Eagles. The Sex Pistols. The New York Dolls. Anything can happen...
Jay
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Whatever people say I am ... (Score:1)
And that my friends should put paid to this stupid theory that Moz has become some avaricious old aristocrat.
Reforming a band has the stale stench of desperate nostalgia (and greed) about it. It's never the same, and it taints the memory of those young, energetic and passionate stars you once loved. It's like having divorced parents say they're going to give marriage another try even though they don't like one another.
Anyways, hats off to Moz and Marr for maintaining their integrity.
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Did he really say that? (Score:1)
Did he really say that? Or is the reporter paraphrasing the line from Maladjusted?
"You do all that you do because it's all you can do"
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What???? (Score:0)
Is that why he continues to release and re-release singles with scattered b-sides so that his fans need to buy EVERYTHING to get his entire collection of music? No Morrissey, you're a fucking hypocrite and you've softened up in your old age to the point where you're ignorant of your own gluttony.
Remember this... the people who are forking out hard earned money buying ALL of your music aren't running with the self-loving aristocrats (minus your band, of course... I wonder what stories they have) that you choose to surround yourself with these days. Why don't you give them a break and not make them finance your next home around the world.
poor mike and andy (Score:0)