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“As far as I’m concerned, with Andy not being here, it’s impossible to have a reunion of The Smiths”: Mike Joyce scotches Smiths reunion rumblings

While the drummer reveals that he’s made up with Marr, rejoining The Smiths remains an unlikely prospect

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"Andy was truly SO loved :-)": A mural of The Smiths bassist Andy Rourke is ‘on’ as its Crowdfunder sails past its target

A mural of The Smiths bassist Andy Rourke is ‘on’ as its Crowdfunder sails past its target

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“The idea of a mural in the centre of Manchester feels a fitting place and way for all his many fans to come and pay tribute”: Crowdfunder launched for Andy Rourke mural

Smiths bassist Andy Rourke to be memoralised by mural in central Manchester

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“Andy’s passing left us all absolutely devastated. I’ve been wanting to celebrate his life and contribution to music”: The Smiths drummer Mike Joyce launches Crowdfunder for Andy Rourke tribute mural

The campaign will finance a mural of the band's late bass player in Manchester, UK, with some of the proceeds also set to go to charity

Guitar World

Morrissey claims Johnny Marr blocked new Smiths greatest hits album

Former Smiths frontman claims Warner Music proposed reissue programme including best-of called Smiths Rule OK!, but Marr rejected proposed artwork

The Guardian - UK

“Every time I opened a music paper it said, ‘Johnny Marr – jingle jangle’. I'd just had enough”: How The Smiths defied expectations on their final album, Strangeways, Here We Come

Johnny Marr and Morrissey’s relationship may have crumbled during its creation, but The Smiths’ final album is regarded by many as their best

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‘It was like Blade Runner meets Berlin rave’: the Manchester sink estate with the UK’s wildest nightclub

Hulme Crescents was Europe’s biggest housing estate, and soon deemed its worst. But a vibrant squatter community moved in – along with Mick Hucknall – to make a countercultural mecca

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The story of the Smiths as bassist Andy Rourke dies

How four Manchester lads went on to become one of the most influential bands of all time

Manchester Evening News

Morrissey: 'Andy Rourke will never die as long as his music is heard'

The Smiths' former frontman has paid a touching tribute to his old bandmate

Manchester Evening News

Morrissey: Andy Rourke will never die as long as his music is heard

The former frontman of The Smiths said Rourke ‘didn’t ever know his own power’ in an online tribute following his death.

The Independent UK

'A kind and beautiful soul': Morrissey, Johnny Marr, more pay tribute to Smiths' Andy Rourke

The Smiths were one of the most distinctive, tempestuous rock bands of the 1980s, and bassist Andy Rourke was an important part of holding it together while he could. In a band with a frontman and guitarist — Morrissey and Johnny Marr — often at each other's throats, Rourke's melodic,…

Los Angeles Times

Andy Rourke obituary

Bassist with the Smiths whose distinctive melodic style was central to the band’s sound

The Guardian - UK

Andy Rourke was the other melodic genius in the Smiths: spry, funky and masterful

Rourke’s propulsive basslines worked in perfect tandem with Johnny Marr’s guitar parts to create the Smiths’ singular sound

The Guardian - UK

Johnny Marr pays tribute after The Smiths’ bassist Andy Rourke dies aged 59

Marr said it was an ‘absolute privilege’ to play alongside Rourke.

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Irish Mirror

The Smiths bassist Andy Rourke dies aged 59 after pancreatic cancer battle as bandmate pays tribute

Andy Rourke’s career extended beyond The Smiths, playing alongside The Pretenders and Sinead O’Connor, as well as with the supergroup Freebass, which included Gary Mounfield from the Stone Roses and Peter Hook from New Order.

The Independent UK

The Smiths’ ‘kind and beautiful soul’ Andy Rourke dies aged 59

His death was announced by his former bandmate Johnny Marr.

Irish Mirror

Drummer Mike Joyce says The Smiths 'are Irish'

'I was born in England and I have a British passport, but I also have an Irish passport and I’m Irish and that’s just the way it is'

Chicago Sun-Times

Raymond Allen Murray Jr., one of the Montford Point Marines who broke color barrier in the service in WWII, dead at 99

Despite being treated as “less than a human being,” the members of the segregated unit “fought gallantly,” says James T. Averhart, president of the National Montford Point Marine Association. “This is not just Black history. It is not just Marine Corps history. It is American history.”

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Manchester Evening News

Salford Lads Club secures future after Covid with funding boost

The news has been welcomed by former Smiths drummer Mike Joyce

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