Morrissey sustituye el nombre de The Smiths en su merchandising

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Morrissey replaces The Smiths name on his merchandising

Morrissey stands up again. Now it is launching a merchandising collection with iconic images from the career of The Smithsbut replacing the band’s name with their own.

This is a series of t-shirts that reproduce covers of singles or albums that are true classics such as “Meat Is Murder” either “The Queen Is Dead”. But the surprising move is that, following his war with Johnny Marr, he has decided to delete the name of the band they both shared and replace it with the name “Morrissey.”

Morrissey had announced a few months ago that he was going to get rid of all his commercial interests linked to The Smiths, and it seems that things could get even more complicated in the relationship between both musicians as a result of moves like this.

In any case, You can find that merchandising on the artist’s sales website and possibly in their imminent Spanish shows

The British pop icon will perform on July 25 at the Poble Espanyol within the Barts Festival, and July 29 at the Movistar Arena. Both concerts are co-organized by Primavera Sound and the promoter SFMusic.

Meanwhile, Johnny Brown He will put up to eighty guitars from his career, both with The Smiths and alone, up for charity auction. Historical models that will also have amplifiers and pedals under the name of “Marr’s Guitars: The Johnny Marr Collection”a sale organized by Christie’s that will take place September 17 in London.

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