Johnny Maar

Morrissey asserts that former Smiths bandmate, Johnny Marr, must stop mentioning his name for “clickbait” in interviews, via an open letter published on his website on Tuesday, Jan 25. He begins the statement with a disclaimer, stating that he doesn’t intend to stir drama but rather that the statement is  “a polite and calmly measured request:  Would you please stop mentioning my name in your interviews? As the statement goes on, it becomes a little less measured and certainly less polite as Morrissey elaborates. “The fact is: you don’t know me.  You know nothing of my life, my intentions, my thoughts, my feelings.  Yet you talk as if you were my personal psychiatrist with consistent and uninterrupted access to my instincts.” He continues, “Must you persistently, y...