Shaun Goater
August 10, 2002, 01:23 PM
Manchester Evening News Saturday 10th August 2002.
SEARCH FOR THE BIG MOUTH RECLUSE by Nick Webster.
A team from Granada TV has started on a quest for the holy grail of music - an interview with reclusive Smiths' frontman Steven Morrissey.
Morrissey is notorious for avoiding the media but David Nolan, producing the documentry 'These Things Take Time: The story of The Smiths' hopes he will make a remarkable exception.
''Morrissey has not given an interview for 10 years and as part of the programme we are filming the process of tracking people down'' said David.
He continued ''This year is the 20th anniversary of Morrissey meeting the guitarist Johnny marr and the formation of The Smiths. They met in the spring and The Smiths had been formed by the autumn.
It is a very tortuous story but Johnny Marr played in a variety of bands including one featuring Coronation Street's Kevin Kennedy (Curly Watts). Whilst Morrissey knocked around with punk bands Slaughter and the Dogs and Ed Banger and the Nosebleeds - both Wythenshawe bands.
They literally met in a bedroom and reeled off 'Suffer Little children' there and then which is a classic Smiths song. Morrissey had all the lyrics and Marr did the music.''
The band's influence was massive and the makers of the one hour programme, due to be broadcast on 8th November 2002, are also hoping to make contact with Smiths fans with stories to tell.
David Nolan can be contacted at Granada TV on: 0161 827 2298
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SEARCH FOR THE BIG MOUTH RECLUSE by Nick Webster.
A team from Granada TV has started on a quest for the holy grail of music - an interview with reclusive Smiths' frontman Steven Morrissey.
Morrissey is notorious for avoiding the media but David Nolan, producing the documentry 'These Things Take Time: The story of The Smiths' hopes he will make a remarkable exception.
''Morrissey has not given an interview for 10 years and as part of the programme we are filming the process of tracking people down'' said David.
He continued ''This year is the 20th anniversary of Morrissey meeting the guitarist Johnny marr and the formation of The Smiths. They met in the spring and The Smiths had been formed by the autumn.
It is a very tortuous story but Johnny Marr played in a variety of bands including one featuring Coronation Street's Kevin Kennedy (Curly Watts). Whilst Morrissey knocked around with punk bands Slaughter and the Dogs and Ed Banger and the Nosebleeds - both Wythenshawe bands.
They literally met in a bedroom and reeled off 'Suffer Little children' there and then which is a classic Smiths song. Morrissey had all the lyrics and Marr did the music.''
The band's influence was massive and the makers of the one hour programme, due to be broadcast on 8th November 2002, are also hoping to make contact with Smiths fans with stories to tell.
David Nolan can be contacted at Granada TV on: 0161 827 2298
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Additional message from The Goat - The chances are this will only be shown in the North of England.