Last month Morrissey announced he was going to use a unknown
photo of him and David Bowie for the reissue cover of his single "The Last
of the Famous International Playboys", well that didn't sit well with
Bowie (or his lawyers who really knows) so he told Morrissey to not use it.
Well it looks like Morrissey went digging through his drawer of famous photo
bombs and has come up with a pic of him with Rick Astley taken backstage at a 1989
TOTP appearance…to be honest it's a great picture, Morrissey actually looks
happy, so maybe it all worked out for the better.
To my friends at
Pitchfork, the song in question is not called "The Last of the
International Playboys"…for next time.
Morrissey also stated, "As far as my reputation is concerned, I can't take
the risk of being on a show alongside people who, in effect, amount to
animal serial killers. If Jimmy cannot dump Duck Dynasty then we must
step away."
**Update** Billboard
now reports that he has been diagnosed with a bleeding ulcer. He's
expected to make a full recovery, but as a result, he's canceled another
string of tour dates.
News is out that Morrissey has cancelled a string of shows due
to a "band illness", but Billboard reports that the former Smiths
frontman has been hospitalized in Royal Oak, Michigan. According
to his representative (via Billboard), "he is undergoing tests
for a suspected bladder infection."
In a move that caught me and probably most of the music
blogging community by total surprise; The Audio Perv a music news and video blog stopped posting on Dec
31st of 2012.
I was heading there to look for Morrissey's Letterman performance
from this past Tuesday and there's this last post titled GOODBYE. The Audio Perv was a great source for TV music
performance's and music news, it will be sorely missed.
One of the last
live musical performance posts was Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie performing
solo the track “Something’s Rattling” (Cowpoke) on Conan.
Rhino Records UK announced today some news that is going to make the Smiths fan in all of us very very happy, well at least the U.K. fans, on the 3rd of October they will release The Smiths Complete - Deluxe Collectors Boxset.
The collection includes all four of the band's studio albums – ‘The Smiths’ (1984), ‘Meat Is Murder’ (1985), ‘The Queen Is Dead’ (1986), ‘Strangeways, Here We Come’ (1987) and their sole live album ‘Rank’ (1988) as well as firm fan favourite compilations ‘Hatful Of Hollow’ (1984), ‘The World Won’t Listen’ (1987) and ‘Louder Than Bombs’ (1987).
Each has been taken back to original tape sources and remastered by Johnny Marr and Frank Arkwright at the world famous Metropolis Studios in London.
Here is the breakdown for the Deluxe Set
DELUXE COLLECTORS BOXSET
**INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED & STRICTLY LIMITED TO JUST 3000 COPIES WORLDWIDE**
A heavyweight trunk boxset including:
> All eight album releases taken back to original tape sources and remastered by Johnny Marr and Frank Arkwright
> All eight albums on Mini LP replica style CDs in gatefold card wallets
> All eight albums on 180g 12” vinyl LPs (5 singles, 3 doubles)
> 25x 7" Singles (the entire The Smiths Singles collection) inc. specially reproduced rarities
> A 36" x 24" Poster of all album and single cover artwork
> ‘The Complete Picture’ DVD of the band's music videos
> An 8 page 12" booklet feat. expanded liner notes
> 8x 12" art prints of each album cover artwork
> An Exclusive Code to download the whole catalogue as high quality MP3s (320k)
The Deluxe set will set you back almost $400 Canadian, and that doesn’t included the shipping costs, and because this set is very heavy those costs will be astronomical, so I think I will be waiting for it to be made available on this side of the pond, but if you have that kind of dough laying around here is the link to the Rhino UK Site.
