Strange/unexpected Moz references?

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(Translated from Italian)

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Esquire article (needs translation):
The true, incredible story of the Smiths can be read in this book
Fernando Rennis, Charming Men, The Story of the Smiths, published by Nottetempo, is a book that sounds like the Manchester group.
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il libro sulla storia degli Smiths

Fernando Rennis, Charming Men, La storia degli Smiths, edito da Nottetempo, è un libro che suona come il gruppo di Manchester.
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"Fell out of an old book"
A. J. Dunleavy via FB group.
 
Famous when dead said:
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Heaven knows Keir has made us miserable now but he'll get blame for winter deaths

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Heaven knows Keir's made us miserable now but he'll get blame for winter deaths

The anger over winter fuel payment won’t go away, so Starmer needs to stop singing the song of despair, and throw pensioners a seasonal gift this budget, says Mirror columnist Brian Reade – or he'll be blamed for any OAPs who freeze to death
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"Poor old man, he had an accident with a three-bar fire"

He won't be switching it on this winter.
 
Famous when dead said:
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Heaven knows Keir has made us miserable now but he'll get blame for winter deaths

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Heaven knows Keir's made us miserable now but he'll get blame for winter deaths

The anger over winter fuel payment won’t go away, so Starmer needs to stop singing the song of despair, and throw pensioners a seasonal gift this budget, says Mirror columnist Brian Reade – or he'll be blamed for any OAPs who freeze to death
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Should Morrissey state something? Does he want to be identified with KS, whose policies are - what exactly?
 
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I read House and Garden all the time. Anyway, this old article came up about Morrissey, and even this mag about decor has this to say about him
The Smiths frontman Morrissey cultivated a distinctly English aesthetic of romanticism and misery – a penchant which in recent years has transformed into nationalism and an anti-immigration stance.

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Morrissey's house on the Irish coast of Cork is up for sale – see inside

In our weekly column, House to buy of the week, we highlight one outstanding property on the market, this week a home in Co. Cork The Smiths frontman bought for his mother.
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A few Morrissey and Smiths mentions in their new book: "Never Understood The Jesus and Mary Chain":

Jim
The Sex Pistols were extremely important to me and William, and still are. One of the things they did really well in the TV series Pistol was show the positive impact their example had on people. Johnny’s become a bit of a dick in real life, to be honest. He’s no longer the guy that we thought he was back in the day – smart, articulate, saying everything we wanted to say about how much we despised the life that had been earmarked for us. Now he’s become more of a caricature of himself, like Morrissey – he seems to say utterly hateful things just to amuse himself – but then he was everything we wanted to be.

Meanwhile, back in Britain, the mantle of ‘band the music press thought could do no wrong’ was in the process of being handed from The Smiths to Creation’s new stars My Bloody Valentine. In one sense this was a great improvement – I’d never really liked The Smiths, but I loved the Valentines. Our fuzz pedal (and it was the exact same one) might have been part of their starter kit, but they took it somewhere completely different. Still, their coronation did leave us feeling like the guy in the middle of the relay who doesn’t get a baton.
I could see that Morrissey gave good copy in music press terms, even though I always thought he was a bit dodgy, but My Bloody Valentine’s enigmatic reputation was based on not really saying anything. It seemed like the Mary Chain couldn’t win. Yes, we’d get the occasional cover of the NME, but there would always be a lot of digs in there. It sounds kind of paranoid, but it felt like people – by which I mean music journalists – were just waiting for us to f*** up.

The next step, which was recording our second single ‘Never Understand’, took a little while to get right. Stephen Street, the producer Warners initially tried to foist on us, was a big name at the time on account of his big commercial breakthrough with The Smiths. He was also everything we were trying to avoid. It was like he was on Warner Brothers’ payroll (which was obviously true in a literal sense, but I’m talking about the spirit of the law as well as the letter).

I don’t think the music suffered, but we suffered, as after a while the relentless bad vibes with the record company ground us down, and the thought that we wouldn’t have received such unsympathetic handling from Rough Trade was one of several reasons to be slightly jealous of The Smiths. Geoff Travis was a great help to us as a point-man with Warners, but his presence in our camp was also a constant reminder of what might’ve been.

William
They were full brothers – both of them grey tabbies – and they squabbled, but it wasn’t vicious. Basically they had fights like Jim and I do where you push each other around, going ‘You f***ing idiot’ ‘No, you f***ing idiot.’ William was the Smiths fan with glasses and Jim was the lovable accident-prone little dope who got electrocuted through his whiskers. One night he was standing next to an electrical socket and his whisker got stuck in the plug so he got a massive shock – he did survive but he jumped about twelve feet in the air…


Now I look back on it with more perspective I can understand how we fell through the cracks. The fact that we said we wanted to be pop stars and did interviews with magazines like Smash Hits and Number One had put the music press’s nose out of joint at the time when that early-eighties thing where all sorts of experimental post-punk people were suddenly having number one pop albums had kind of ground to a halt. Meanwhile the new idea of what ‘indie’ was meant to be was coagulating around The Smiths, so we were left out of that as well. And then by the time baggy and shoegaze and grunge had come and gone and Britpop had taken over, it didn’t matter how good the music we made was – and I honestly think Stoned & Dethroned and the next album Munki are as good as, if not better than, anything else we ever did – we were destined to be a back number.
 
The new Blossoms album has been released today and it contains the song „Mothers“…

[Chorus]
Our mothers said they were friends back in the '80s
I've seen old photos of them, they wore the same things
There was a time before you had your babies
At the club, dance to The Smiths and Rick Astley
 
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