A record store in Wales has banned music from The Smiths’ frontman Morrissey, with his support of far-right politicians cited as their reason.
As Wales Online reports, Cardiff’s Spillers Records has announced they’ll be taking the iconic Manchester musician’s music off the shelves due to his views.
“I’m saddened but ultimately not surprised that Spillers is unable to stock Morrissey’s releases any longer,” explained Ashli Todd the owner of the 125-year-old record store explained. “I only wished I’d done it sooner.”
Early in 2018, the political enigma that is Morrissey published a bizarre interview on his website which saw him identifying with far-right politics.
Noting how he associates himself with the For Britain political party – a far-right party created by Anne Marie Waters. Morrissey also went on to criticise the “loony left”, mentioning how they seem to forget “Hitler was left wing.”
However, the singer’s political leanings were largely forgotten until last week when Morrissey appeared on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon wearing a pin that supports the party, having been seen wearing the same pin during his New York residency.
Earlier this week though, Waters in fact thanked Morrissey for his support and the publicity he had given the party.
“I can tell you that the traffic to our website exploded with the story breaking of you wearing the For Britain button badge, which you have been wearing everywhere from what I can see, so thank you very much for that,” Waters explained in a video uploaded to YouTube.
While Morrissey’s views on politics, animal rights, and numerous other topics have been quite divisive over the years, it was revealed last year that even former Smiths bandmate Johnny Marr no longer sides with his old friend.
“No we’re not mates,” Marr explained to The Independent. “We’re just very different. But we always were very different people. But everyone knows that! Everyone knows everything there is to know.”
“All anyone needs to know is that I oppose those views from Morrissey or anybody else.”
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