{"id":805338,"date":"2020-03-17T09:11:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T15:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=968382"},"modified":"2020-03-17T09:11:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T15:11:24","slug":"watch-morrissey-play-smiths-song-london-for-first-time-in-13-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-morrissey-play-smiths-song-london-for-first-time-in-13-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Morrissey Play Smiths Song \u2018London\u2019 for First Time in 13 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Morrissey.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/morrissey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_morrissey\" data-tag=\"morrissey\">Morrissey<\/a>\u2019s <em>I Am Not a Dog on a Chain<\/em> tour has been largely curtailed by the coronavirus, but he did manage to perform a show at London\u2019s SSE Arena on Saturday night even though most other major shows in the city were shut down. The backdrop for the early part of the concert was the cover of his 2004 LP <em>You Are the Quarry<\/em> with the title changed to <em>You Are the Quarantined<\/em> and a medical mask digitally added to Morrissey\u2019s face.<\/p>\n<p>The first song of the evening was the 1987 Smiths song \u201cLondon,\u201d which he hadn\u2019t played live since 2007. The tune was the B-side to \u201cShoplifters of the World Unite\u201d and appeared on the 1987 Smiths compilation <em>The World Won\u2019t Listen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The rest of the Wembley show was a mixture of solo tunes like \u201cSatan Rejected My Soul\u201d and \u201cIrish Blood, English Heart\u201d; covers like Melanie\u2019s \u201cSome Say (I Got Devil)\u201d and Laura Nyro\u2019s \u201cWedding Bell Blues\u201d; and selections from his new album <em>I Am Not a Dog on a Chain.<\/em> The only other Smiths song in the show was \u201cHalf a Person,\u201d which he recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-morrissey-perform-smiths-obscurity-half-a-person-first-time-20-years-965631\/\">played live for the first time in 20 years.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Morrissey was originally supposed to play at New York\u2019s Hammerstein Ballroom and Apollo Theater this week, but those plans have been put on hold due to the virus. His next show is scheduled to take place May 2nd at the Cruel World Festival in Carson, California, where he\u2019s headlining on a bill that also includes Devo, Blondie, Bauhaus, the Psychedelic Furs and many other New Wave acts. Organizers haven\u2019t announced whether or not the show will still be able to take place as planned.<\/p>\n<p>The next chance to see Morrissey in America is late June and early July when he\u2019s scheduled to play five nights at the Colosseum at Caesar\u2019s Palace in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-morrissey-play-smiths-song-london-for-first-time-in-13-years-968382\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morrissey\u2019s I Am Not a Dog on a Chain tour has been largely curtailed by the coronavirus, but he did manage to perform a show at London\u2019s SSE Arena on Saturday night even though most other major shows in the city were shut down. The backdrop for the early part of the concert was the [&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-805338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 03:03:32","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\/805338","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=805338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}