posted by davidt on Thursday December 02 2010, @09:00AM
MD writes:
Johnny Marr sent an angry tweet:

David Cameron, stop saying that you like The Smiths, no you don't. I forbid you to like it.

Johnny Marr: 'I forbid David Cameron from liking the Smiths' - The Guardian
The guitarist takes to Twitter to tell the PM he is not welcome as a fan
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  • Will you then be giving him his ten quid back for his copy of 'The Queen is Dead?'
    Anonymous -- Thursday December 02 2010, @09:14AM (#359598)
    • Re:Refund by Anonymous (Score:0) Monday December 06 2010, @04:17AM
  • Socialism (Score:1, Insightful)

    I've seem Johnny Marr on tv, read about him touring with Red Wedge and Billy Bragg back in the 80's when we had Margaret Thatcher as Tory Prime Minster.Johnny being a compassionate person, with Socialist views ,he's totally the opposite to David Cameron.
    Anonymous -- Thursday December 02 2010, @09:24AM (#359599)
  • Brilliant (Score:2, Insightful)

    When in saw this earlier on twitter it made me feel pleased. Well done Johnny!

    Of course, Cameron has every right to like the Smiths, but equally everyone else has the right to point out how incongruous his political opinions are with the whole ethos of the group.
    Anonymous -- Thursday December 02 2010, @09:25AM (#359600)
    • Re:Brilliant by Anonymous (Score:0) Friday December 03 2010, @12:11PM
      • Re:Brilliant by Anonymous (Score:0) Friday December 03 2010, @10:10PM
  • I can understand the horror of having a chinless twat who is destroying our country and trying to kill off the poor saying he is a "fan" he obviously did not listen to the Smiths lyrics ?
    He claims to be a fan to be cool to the youth who are appreciating the band
    I applaud Mr Marr ,Cameron is a Hypocrite and worse
    good on Johnny fans like that you do not need !
    COLLNUIN -- Thursday December 02 2010, @09:35AM (#359602)
    (User #18040 Info)
    if you can not help dont hinder !
    • Re:Tory Boy (Score:2, Insightful)

      If he was trying to be cool to the youth he wouldn't be talking about The Smiths but more like N Dubz and Tinchy Stryder. The Smiths mean very little to todays youth, sad but true.
      Anonymous -- Thursday December 02 2010, @01:43PM (#359617)
      • Re:Tory Boy by goinghome (Score:1) Thursday December 02 2010, @04:32PM
        • Re:Tory Boy by Anonymous (Score:0) Friday December 03 2010, @09:07AM
      • Re:Tory Boy by Anonymous (Score:0) Thursday December 02 2010, @06:21PM
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  • chidlish (Score:2, Insightful)

    I can understand that Johnny's not with PM Cameron programme and what he stands for

    but than again David had a past too, been to coolage, uni maybe
    I think at that time, he liked the Smiths

    I'm 45, if I became an farmer, wouldn't I stop
    liking the Smiths, who guided me through a young adult

    maybe Cameron must stop and do his job, but Marr
    also should not let this out in the media,it's not worth, just make some songs Cameron might gonna dislike The Smiths
    Celibate Cry <[email protected]> -- Thursday December 02 2010, @09:42AM (#359603)
    (User #220 Info)
    and the hills are alive with celibate cries
    • Re:chidlish by Anonymous (Score:0) Thursday December 02 2010, @03:50PM
    • Re:chidlish by Anonymous (Score:0) Friday December 03 2010, @08:10AM
  • Ugh (Score:2, Insightful)

    What a load of complete bollocks. What arrogance does Marr show knowing that someone who, most likely, has different political opinions to him is a fan of his art. I very much wonder how Marr would feel had all Conservative voters past and present never purchased his work and helped cement his place in pop history, as well as his rather bulging wallet.

    Get over it, and get over yourself, Johnny.
    Ben Budd -- Thursday December 02 2010, @10:22AM (#359604)
    (User #9454 Info)
    • Re:Ugh by Anonymous (Score:0) Thursday December 02 2010, @06:09PM
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  • Politics (Score:0, Insightful)

    My guess is all those commenting on here who oppose this will be Tories themselves so can understand DC's point of view. All those for it will be Labour. Regardless of what their arguments are.
    Anonymous -- Thursday December 02 2010, @10:49AM (#359607)
    • Re:Politics by Anonymous (Score:0) Thursday December 02 2010, @10:58AM
      • Re:Politics by Anonymous (Score:1) Thursday December 02 2010, @11:30AM
  • Erm.... (Score:1, Insightful)

    24 years ago millions of people would have forbid Johnny Marr to leave The Smiths! Would it have stopped him?
    Anonymous -- Thursday December 02 2010, @10:55AM (#359608)
  • is utter SHITE, Johnny boy!

    Arrogant jerk, Moz is the man tho.
    Anonymous -- Thursday December 02 2010, @12:00PM (#359614)
  • no harm done.
    Anonymous -- Thursday December 02 2010, @01:59PM (#359618)
  • In the World Cup 2018 vote.

    Apart from detesting Cameron, Johnny Marr is a good mate of Sepp Blatter and regularly performs for the FIFA executive commitee.

    Indeed prior to the first round of voting today he serenaded the committee with "Please, Please, Please Give The World Cup To Russia."

    Lord Knows It Would Be The First Time

    Rumours Johnny Marr is an ex-KGB agent are, as yet, unsubstatiated but he enjoys a strong and fruitful relationship with Vladimir Putin
    Anonymous -- Thursday December 02 2010, @02:12PM (#359619)
  • Moz had a smile on his face when he heard of this.
    ThinkOfMeKindlyLV -- Thursday December 02 2010, @02:46PM (#359620)
    (User #18284 Info | http://twitter.com/thinkofmekindly)
  • Marr's Comments (Score:2, Interesting)

    Lame, Johnny. I lost some respect for you. Keep politics out of your art. Mr. Cameron can like what he wants. Who are you to say? Give me a break.
    klions99 -- Thursday December 02 2010, @02:48PM (#359621)
    (User #3814 Info)
  • Headline News (Score:2, Informative)

    This is one of the main stories on Yahoo right now (with a lovely photo of M&M):

    http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/stopthepresses/332313/the-boy-with-the-thorn-in-his-side-smiths-guitarist-blasts-uk-prime-minister-on-twitter/
    Anaesthesine -- Thursday December 02 2010, @05:23PM (#359629)
    (User #14203 Info)
    If Moz did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
  • it's hard to trust (or even like) a man with no lips.
    Anonymous -- Thursday December 02 2010, @06:24PM (#359635)
  • Angry tweets are twee.
    Anonymous -- Thursday December 02 2010, @09:25PM (#359640)
  • Who the heck is Johnny Marr???? Was that that guy from like 30 years ago or something??? BTW- where's Morrissey?
    bbgfe1 -- Friday December 03 2010, @01:10AM (#359643)
    (User #20028 Info)
  • Good man Johnny!
    Cameron is probably just looking for votes anyway, and I'm sure he only knows a handful of Smiths tunes. Anyone who keeps using the line 'Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now' when asked about The Smiths must live a blinkered life.
    A.C.T.O.N.
    Anonymous -- Friday December 03 2010, @03:45AM (#359646)
  • Why is it that everyone comes across as a complete idiot on Twitter?
    Anonymous -- Friday December 03 2010, @05:01AM (#359650)
  • There's also this Guardian editorial praising Marr.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/03/in-praise-of-johnny-marr

    You wouldn't think this is the same paper that went all Daily Mail about a certain "Subspecies" comment recently.
    Anonymous -- Friday December 03 2010, @05:25AM (#359651)
  • Er, maybe he was being ironic...
    Anonymous -- Friday December 03 2010, @09:04AM (#359656)
  • Funny how this one comment has almost doubled the amount of peeps following him on Twitter...
    Anonymous -- Friday December 03 2010, @10:33AM (#359661)
  • Last I heard GB was a free country. Mr. Cameron is free to like or dislike anyone he wishes. I understand that Mr. Marr and Mr. Morrissey are socialists at heart, but in the meantime GB is still a free country.

    Personally I live and breath the Smiths and Morrissey, but I almost never agree with their silly socialistic political views.

    By the way, I've been a strict vegetarian for the last 17 years, but I don't push my views on meat consumption on anyone else, neither should these tow goofballs.
    jaketrout33 <reversethis-{ten.tsacmoc} {ta} {omoucfj}> -- Friday December 03 2010, @11:07AM (#359663)
    (User #22093 Info)
  • ..because I've heard a vicious rumour that Marr is in fact teaming up with Cameroon for a celebrity 'Stars In Their Eyes' special...yep, you've guessed it, they're doing 'Frankly Mr Shankly'...
    Anonymous -- Friday December 03 2010, @11:14AM (#359664)
  • Funny how free speech only applies to liberals. When conservatives wish to express who they like, they are told, YOU CANT! I FORBID YOU!

    I lost some respect for Johnny Marr instructing people who can like the Smiths. The Smiths are bigger than he, I am sorry.
    klions99 -- Friday December 03 2010, @01:40PM (#359676)
    (User #3814 Info)
  • David Cameron is aware of The Smiths lyrics,
    on The One Show when Morrissey was on it he said that if he finds out a member of the conserative party is a fan im sure he will be think Heaven Knows im Miserable Now,
    obviously there is a reason he said that,
    i don't think it should be a huge problem he likes listening to the music, if you like a song you like a song.
    PinkFloyd -- Friday December 03 2010, @03:46PM (#359680)
    (User #23749 Info)
  • Cameron, Bush, Blair, Obama. The scum of the earth :)
    Anonymous -- Friday December 03 2010, @04:54PM (#359682)
    • You Forgot... by Anonymous (Score:0) Saturday December 04 2010, @08:19AM
  • this is ridiculous and childish and more to the point impossible to enforce. Not everyone who likes the Smiths is a genuinely wonderful person. You just have to read some of the posts here to know that, mine included :)
    marred -- Friday December 03 2010, @06:09PM (#359683)
    (User #16308 Info)
  • I laughed when I read JM's tweet because I HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR. Some users of this site take themselves and every fucking thing around them too damn seriously! One simple facetious comment and it turns into a huge controversy over freedom of speech, liberal vs. conservative, blah blah blah. Don't get me started on the usual vegetarian vs. carnivore bullshit. (I can just imagine some replies to this post... "Some of us are *vegan* NOT *vegetarian*! WAAAAH!" You're all damn dirty hippies to me. Go to hell -that is, if you believe in it.)
    Anonymous -- Friday December 03 2010, @06:09PM (#359684)
  • uncleskinny -- Saturday December 04 2010, @01:33AM (#359688)
    (User #7815 Info)
    And so I drank one, it became four, and when I fell on the floor, I drank more
  • ... on true-to-you.net, "I would like to, if I may, offer support to Johnny Marr", with splendid side-swipes at Bryan Ferry - "I apologize very deeply for my support over the years for the group Roxy Music", William & Kate - "so dull as people that it is actually impossible to discuss them", and our own dear Queen - who "annually signs-off on the terrorizing slaughter of adult Canadian brown bears in order that her Guards are supplied with fancy hats". And as for Cameron, "with fitting grimness I must report that David Cameron hunts and shoots and kills stags – apparently for pleasure. It was not for such people that either "Meat is Murder" or "The Queen is Dead" were recorded; in fact, they were made as a reaction against such violence".

    And much more excellent stuff!
    Anonymous -- Saturday December 04 2010, @11:00AM (#359705)


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