{"id":400937,"date":"2025-09-05T21:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400937\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T21:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:06:09","slug":"morrissey-abruptly-shuts-down-email-address-shared-to-sell-stake-in-smiths-morrissey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400937\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrissey abruptly shuts down email address shared to sell stake in Smiths | Morrissey"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a sullen episode befitting some of his more gloomy lyrics, Morrissey, lead singer of the Smiths, has abruptly shut down an email address he was promoting to sell his business interests<\/a> in the band.<\/p>\n

The notoriously saturnine frontman blamed \u201cdisagreeable and vexatious characters\u201d involved with the band for his sudden decision, and claimed he had endured decades of misery, in a post on Friday<\/a> on his website morrisseycentral.com.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Morrissey<\/a>, 66, who dropped his first names Steven Patrick when he became a performer, said he was selling his stake in the band \u201cto any interested party\/investor\u201d, and invited inquiries to the email address eaves7760@gmail.com.<\/p>\n

The singer, who wrote the lyrics to the Smiths\u2019 biggest hits, including 1984\u2019s Heaven Knows I\u2019m Miserable Now, said he was \u201cburnt out by any and all connections to [bandmates Johnny] Marr, [Andy] Rourke, and [Mike] Joyce\u201d.<\/p>\n

His post on Friday, which announced that the email address was closing down due to the \u201ccolossal response\u201d to his offer, continued the assault on his erstwhile colleagues.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter thirty-eight years of insults and abuse, Morrissey has had enough,\u201d he wrote in the third person.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough Morrissey\u2019s love for the songs of the Smiths era will never waver, he is tired of the disagreeable and vexatious characters involved in \u2018The Smiths\u2019 business.\u201d<\/p>\n

He pledged that \u201call, or most\u201d messages to the email address \u201cwill be answered in time\u201d.<\/p>\n

Representatives for Marr and Joyce declined to comment when contacted by the Guardian this week.<\/p>\n

The chapter is in keeping with previous puzzling episodes involving the enigmatic singer, who wore an explicit \u201cFuck the Guardian<\/a>\u201d vest at a 2019 concert in Los Angeles after the newspaper reported his far-right leanings, including support for the extremist For Britain nationalist party.<\/p>\n

He stated in a separate post<\/a> on Friday that he \u201cis apolitical and has not ever joined a political party \u2013 or voted \u2013 in his entire life\u201d, and said he had turned down an invitation to perform at the Reform UK party\u2019s national conference, which ends in Birmingham, England, on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a sullen episode befitting some of his more gloomy lyrics, Morrissey, lead singer of the Smiths, has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-400937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115153730821813141","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}