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Marr plays Smiths showstoppers, spliced with songs from new album Call the Comet, and is unafraid to tackle Morrissey’s vocal pirouettes ‘This song is about the rise of the right wing,” Johnny Marr says ahead of Bug, his third solo album’s most overt political swipe. A pause for a waggish sneer. “Or so I’ve read.”Marr must never tire of reminding interviewers, or every time his erstwhile colleague Morrissey opens his once-fond mouth,that it’s been 30 years since they were in a band together. But history binds the pair, though they are about as likely to carry out a reunion tour as Yanny and Laurel or Cain and Abel. Even nowadays their careers are unintentionally symbiotic, and with Moz using official online statements to promote far-right party For Britain on account of their accidental animal rights policies (being anti-Islam means being anti-halal,which is Morrissey catnip). Marr is now the guilt-free Smiths experience.
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Source: theguardian.com