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    The Smiths

    Is anyone here a fan of The Smiths? For those who don't know, The Smiths were a controversial but influential band from the 1980's. Morrissey (lead singer) is still making music today as a solo artist.

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    I like them. "Meat is Murder" was a good album.

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    Morrissey's always been a bit 'whiny' for me. I tried to like The Smiths but just couldn't do it.
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    The Smiths are a great band. Morrissey on his own has been hit and miss.
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    Johnny Marr!!!! Always a pretty cool guitar player.

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    Great band and fantastic guitar player!
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    Yeah, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw there was a "The Smiths" thread, but I just knew it was going to turn out to be about something else, Like Angelina Jolie.
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    The Smiths was favorite band.

    Is it true that Morrisey is gay?
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    I never liked The Smiths just like I never liked Marmite.

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    The Smiths was good, and I also like Morrisey as solo. Very good indeed.


    Is it true that Morrisey is gay?
    From Wikipedia:

    In the eighties Morrissey announced that he lived in celibacy. Some people believed him to be gay because the lyrics he wrote in The Smiths were sometimes full of references to homosexuality. Also, Morrissey's two big idols Oscar Wilde and James Dean had sexual relationships with men. Morrissey has never talked about his sexuality and his private life which has irritated some people. An openly gay journalist Richard Smith wrote that Morrissey should come out of the closet so he would make a favour to gay people. Mark Simpson, another gay journalist didn't agree with Smith and he wrote that "Morrissey's ambition, his perversity, his sensibility was far too large, too talented, too vicious to be fitted into this harmless, silly, precious, sequinned little word 'gay'."

    In a 1997 interview to support the release of "Alma Matters", the lead single from Maladjusted, Morrissey cited "Shoplifters of the World Unite" as his favourite Smiths song. The song is seen by many as a rebuke of Section 28.

    Morrissey was rumored to be romantically linked to Billy Mackenzie of The Associates in the early 1980s. Mackenzie is rumored to be the subject of The Smiths' hit song "William, It Was Really Nothing", and the rumor is furthered by The Associates' response song "Stephen, You Were Really Something".

    If he is, he hasn’t come out…

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    Yep, they made some great music back in the day.. don't think I ever heard his solo stuff though.

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