1991 03 30 Smiths NME

ROCK OF AGES: CLASSIC INTERVIEWS

MEAT BLEAT MANIFESTO

Those were the days, eh readers? When MORRISSEY made great records and was prepared to lower himself and do interviews. By the late summer of1985 The Smiths hadfirmly established themselves as the most important British band of the second half of the ’80s. As they progresed from critical cult to mass popularity so the sniping (at the band’s stances and Morrissey’s outpourings) began in the music press.
Not in these pages, though, as a dewy-eyed DANNY KELLY threw himself at the feet of Chairman Mo and begged him to defend himself.
Pictures: LAWRENCE WATSON

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