{"id":794611,"date":"2019-04-08T09:55:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T15:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=819072"},"modified":"2019-04-08T09:55:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T15:55:23","slug":"hear-morrisseys-new-song-with-billie-joe-armstrong-wedding-bell-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hear-morrisseys-new-song-with-billie-joe-armstrong-wedding-bell-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Morrissey\u2019s New Song With Billie Joe Armstrong, \u2018Wedding Bell Blues\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/morrissey-billie-joe-armstrong-wedding-bell-blues.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/morrissey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_morrissey\" data-tag=\"morrissey\">Morrissey<\/a> recruited Green Day\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/billie-joe-armstrong\/\" id=\"auto-tag_billie-joe-armstrong\" data-tag=\"billie-joe-armstrong\">Billie Joe Armstrong<\/a> and the Regrettes\u2019 Lydia Night for his soulful cover of the 5th Dimension\u2019s \u201cWedding Bell Blues,\u201d the first official single from the singer\u2019s upcoming Sixties\/Seventies covers LP, <em>California Son<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The guest duo add breezy backing vocals throughout the Laura Nyro-penned track, while Morrissey croons marital daydreams over jaunty piano, glassy electric guitar chords and the faint flutter of a theremin. \u201cI look at you and see the passion eyes of May\/Oh, but am I ever gonna see my wedding day?\u201d he sings in a soft vibrato. \u201cIn your voice I hear a choir of carousels\/Oh, but am I ever gonna hear my wedding bells?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>California Son<\/em>, which follows 2017\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-morrissey-alt-rocks-greatest-stand-up-still-has-it-on-album-number-11-122955\/\"><em>Low in High School<\/em><\/a>, also features covers of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Roy Orbison (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/morrissey-cover-roy-orbison-its-over-800257\/\">\u201cIt\u2019s Over\u201d<\/a>), Dionne Warwick and Carly Simon, among others; additional guest artists include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/morrissey-grizzly-bear-ed-droste-jobriath-morning-starship-cover-listen-811040\/\">Grizzly Bear\u2019s Ed Droste<\/a>, Petra Haden and Young the Giant\u2019s Sameer Gadhia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Prior to the record\u2019s May 24th release, Morrissey will host a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/morrissey-broadway-residency-new-york-city-802631\/\">seven-day Broadway residency<\/a> of seven career-spanning sets, including material from <em>California Son<\/em>. The shows are scheduled for New York City\u2019s Lunt-Fontanne Theater between May 2nd and 11th.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/morrissey-new-song-billie-joe-armstrong-wedding-bell-blues-819072\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morrissey recruited Green Day\u2019s Billie Joe Armstrong and the Regrettes\u2019 Lydia Night for his soulful cover of the 5th Dimension\u2019s \u201cWedding Bell Blues,\u201d the first official single from the singer\u2019s upcoming Sixties\/Seventies covers LP, California Son. The guest duo add breezy backing vocals throughout the Laura Nyro-penned track, while Morrissey croons marital daydreams over jaunty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 21:20:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}