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The secrets of songwriters - The Guardian
The day the Kinks overtook the Beatles, why the Clash wrote 'Rock the Casbah', when Johnny Marr first drove to Morrissey's house … Daniel Rachel has interviewed many of the nation's best songwriters. Here are some highlights

Excerpt from Johnny Marr segment:

Did you ever write together?
Once, which was "Half a Person": that was incredibly uncanny. The morning we were supposed to do the B-side he said, "What are we going to do?" I picked up the guitar and said, "Maybe it should go like this?' and he hummed the melody whilst I found some chords. It was done in like four minutes. We did it that one time because the tape was rolling in the next room and we hadn't come up with something. It was just a necessity. We'd decided, very...

From Stephen:

Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead
Presents The Smiths and friends

Iconic musicians photographed by Stephen Wright http://www.smithsphotos.com

10 -29 SEPTEMBER

Stephen started his career photographing musicians live. As time went on these included many well known names – Madonna, Prince, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, James Brown and many more!

His most famous image ironically was a posed of the Smiths outside the Salford Lads Club for the Queen is Dead album.

“Stephen Wright’s original photograph, used for the inside gatefold of The Queen is Dead, clinches the prize for the most famous image of the Smiths” Will Woodward – The Guardian

This image is part of the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the Manchester Art Gallery and the Salford Art Gallery. All rather funny when the original film was processed in a darkroom in a bedroom -with the chemicals kept in old drinks bottles!

It's 60% Smiths – free entry shut mondays but...

Ooh, just over the hill. Might pop in.

P.

Just Some Modern Rock Songs: Stuart Murdoch's Favourite Albums (TQID, page 7) - The Quietus
The Glaswegian indie pop pioneers' frontman picks out his top 13 records

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Re: Julie Hamill interview with director James Russell, "Morrissey 25: Live" review - juliehamill.co

Thank you, another good interview in her series.
Regards,
FWD

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Morrissey unbowed by Alan Jenkins - The Times Literary Supplement blog

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Also:

REVIEW: Morrissey 25 by Dickie Felton

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Johnny Marr says people who want The Smiths to reform 'need to get a hobby' - NME.com
'The records, photographs and memories are all plenty to be getting along with,' says guitarist

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Palma Violets react to Johnny Marr dedicating a song to them at Reading Festival 2013 - NME.com
The Smiths icon dedicated ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’ to the London band on Saturday

Yes i went and only about 10 people there to see it.

Its ok i guess, wish the fan comments had been cut.