Y'en a Marr(e)
- veradapozzo8
- Jun 24
- 1 min read
When The Smiths split because Johnny Marr left the band, I was just a child in primary school and I found it was such a pity, but, since then, I have never wished The Smiths made up, and I have never hoped the creative tandem Morrissey & Marr came back and worked together again.
The Smiths is dead since 1987 and, after a short time when Craig Gannon, Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce played together at the very beginning of Morrissey's solo career, all former band members embraced, more or less successfully, their own projects. To be honest, I have never cared about Johnny Marr's and the other ex-Smiths musicians' career because they were not as interesting as Morrissey in terms of creative power.
The Smiths is a living heritage, of course, but "the past is a strange place" and I am not very keen on nostalgia nor revisionism.
I still have an unfinished article, started in September 2024, about the hypothetical reunion of Morrissey and Marr and how, to me, a reunion with former once bandmates would add nothing to Morrissey's poetic and vocal talent.
Today, I am too tired to write more than an informal, idiomatic French expression :
Y'EN A MARRE.
Vera da Pozzo
Paris, 24th June 2026
Article above and photo below by me, of course.
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