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When you listen to The Smiths you're always thinking 'I know what you mean and god yeah it hurts' but also 'jeez I never want to hang out with you Morrissey' and I'm guessing this is how Johnny Marr felt too

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Morrissey: wails, quotes Carry On films, eventually becomes racist
Marr: invents whole new guitar sounds, makes unrivalled riffs, is pelted with Morrissey's flung flowers, tells Dave Cameron to go fuck himself

My favourite video of The Smiths live in the 80s features Johnny Marr, mid-riff fugue, a cigarette hanging from the corner of his lips & puffing a huge cloud of smoke; it wafts around him like he's drilling himself into the earth