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To: MeshugeMikey

He’s from an 80s band called The Smiths. He refuses to do any reunion shows with the rest of the band (although being an early fan club member, he famously got the New York Dolls to reunite).

He did have a statement about the immigration without assimilation in England though...

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1931934/posts
Morrissey ‘Refuses to Live in the UK Because of Immigration Explosion’
The Daily Mail ^ | November 28, 2007 | James Slack

The pop singer Morrissey claims he can no longer live in a Britain he believes lost to an “immigration explosion”.

The former frontman of the Smiths, who is now based in Rome, claimed England was just ‘a memory now’.

The 48-year-old added: “Other countries have held on to their basic identity yet it seems to me that England was thrown away.

“The change in England is so rapid compared to the change in any other country.

“If you walk through Knightsbridge on any bland day of the week you won’t hear an English accent...

.....

and here’s this nugget from a few years back when he couldn’t persuade a whole festival to go without meat eatin’.

Morrissey Condemns Meat Eaters at Coachella (”I Smell Burning Flesh & I Hope To God It’s Human”)
New Music Express ^ | 4/20/09
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2234398/posts


40 posted on 02/03/2015 11:03:16 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: a fool in paradise

—He refuses to do any reunion shows with the rest of the band -—

It’s not just him, there’s also the small matter of the drummer suing the rest of the band for royalties. That always puts a crimp in intraband relations.


79 posted on 02/03/2015 12:59:03 PM PST by cookiemcbride
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