Those initially skeptical of the supposed interview have their suspicions validated. Morrissey was alerted to the recent "El Legendario" article (translated) and here is his response:

For the record, I wasn’t interviewed by anybody at all whilst in Mexico City. And the very idea that I would conduct an interview in a disco straight after doing a concert is ..... imaginative! None of the responses in the Q&A section would be mine; I haven’t written a novel, I would not refer to African American people as ‘blacks’, Carole Lombard did not kill herself, I certainly DO have new songs, and I DON’T listen to either Oasis or Prefab Sprout! So, as I hope people will realize, this interview was either completely made up, or took place with a Mexican look-alike. However, the live review is touching, and I’m grateful for that.

Gorman writes:

FROM: THE BOOKSELLER MAGAZINE 5/7/00

Author Interviews
Morrissey's man
Willy Russell The Wrong Boy (Doubleday)

Excerpt:

Playwright Willy Russell, creator of "Shirley Valentine", "Educating Rita" and "Blood Brothers", is publishing his début novel, The Wrong Boy. In it, angst-ridden teenager Raymond Marks is made a scapegoat by his headmaster after a childish game is misinterpreted. He tells his story, by turns funny and heartbreaking, in letters written to his idol, Morrissey, the singer from The Smiths.

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Charles Byron writes:

In the July issue of Argentine magazine Los Inrockuptibles Richard Ashcroft (ex The Verve) mentions The Smiths as his First Love.

L.I: Did rock help you to get out of your shell?
R.A.: It was when I was 15 years that rock became something essential, at the same time than drugs and some books about pop music history. My first great love was The Smiths, and after them, The Stone Roses and the Happy Mondays... In our little northwester English corner, the entire Madchester subject was very important. For the first time there were a couple of guys just like us on stage.

Also, in the same issue Stuart Murdoch from Belle & Sebastian is regarded as an "end of the century version of the most brilliant Morrissey".

furn. aka 'your stalemate' writes:

I found this article ("DEFTONES - the biggest band in the world" - Metal Hammer, July 2000) in which Chino Moreno (singer of the Deftones) was being asked various questions about his influences for the new album White Pony...

Interviewer: Wasn't Chino ever influenced by people when he was growing up?
Chino: l looked up to a lot of people, but they were people who impressed me with the way they lived their lives. l was a huge Morrissey fan [The Smiths], but I'm not into the, "Oh, I'm so depressed" thing. l liked the way he works and what he says. You can look up to someone, and don't have to mock yourself and be like them.
It's the same with Robert Smith [The Cure]. It was more of a writing thing. It's a difference between being infatuated by someone you like and the things they do, or being infatuated with someone for their whole person. Morrissey's a bit more; he's a very hard individual to figure out, and that's what intrigued me. To this day, l don't know the person he is. It's interesting, he'll throw you through a loop, he'll let you into his weird perceptions, then all of a sudden he'll shock you with one blunt thing that comes out in one sentence and you think, "What the fuck, that's the introvert in me that l like"

Tommy Dee also writes:

Chino Moreno, of the heavy-metal band The Deftones, mentions Morrissey as an influence to Jim Farber, rock critic for NYC tabloid The Daily News.

madonna writes:

Slightly more positive this time!

From Record Collector:

You might think that Morrissey's solo singles pale into insignificance when compared back-to-back with anything by The Smiths. But to paraphrase Moz, you are wrong and you will not change your mind. Or at least you should, because, as this 10-CD-single box set ably demonstrates, Morrissey's solo career is littered with dozens of marvellous, witty songs that can capture the heart as easily as anything by his old band. Solo, Moz's lyrics deal with loneliness, betrayal, crime in general and the Moors murderers in particular, and his own not-quite-out-of-the-closet, but-not-really-in-it-either, sexuality. Pretty much the same as the Smiths, really.

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Also submitted by madonna:

From Q magazine:

Aggrieved of Salford

Twelve long years of feeling hard done by. Morrissey won't show you his stigmata.

In his last interview with a publication from the British Isles, The Irish Times in November 1999, 41-year-old Stephen (sic) Patrick Morrissey claimed that "there is an extreme disregard for anything I do in Britain", promptly disproving the allegation with a sold-out UK tour received with typically rabid fervour by British Morrissey fans. If only he would stop saying such silly things... but it was ever thus.

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Iain writes:

A Morrissey night will be taking place on Friday 14th July at the Star and Garter, Fairfield St, Manchester. It runs from 10pm - 2am, and admission is approx £3.