{"id":2444506,"date":"2019-05-22T20:27:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T02:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=838984"},"modified":"2019-05-22T20:27:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T02:27:17","slug":"record-store-bans-morrissey-albums-citing-his-far-right-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/record-store-bans-morrissey-albums-citing-his-far-right-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Record Store Bans Morrissey Albums Citing His Far-Right Support"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Morrissey<\/a>\u2019s controversial endorsement of British far-right political party For Britain has led at least one record store to ban his music. Spillers, which bills itself as \u201cthe oldest record shop in the world,\u201d in Cardiff, Wales has announced it can no longer support the former Smiths\u2019 frontman, Wales Online<\/em><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m saddened but ultimately not surprised that Spillers is unable to stock Morrissey\u2019s releases any longer,\u201d Spillers owner Ashli Todd told Wales Online.<\/em> \u201cI only wished I\u2019d done it sooner.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Morrissey wore a For Britain pin during his appearance on The Tonight Show<\/em><\/a>, where he performed his version of Jobriath\u2019s \u201cMorning Starship<\/a>.\u201d Anti-Islam activist Anne Marie Waters founded the far-right UK political party For Britain. Following Morrissey\u2019s Tonight Show<\/em> stint, Waters thanked Morrissey<\/a> for his support via a YouTube video.<\/p>\n

Morrissey has always been one to share his often-caustic and divisive views<\/a>, from demeaning fellow artists to spouting bigotry and racist remarks. In 2010, while discussing animal cruelty in China he told The Guardian<\/em><\/a>, \u201cYou can\u2019t help but feel the Chinese people are a subspecies. Following the Norway massacre in 2011 where 77 people died, he reportedly told a Warsaw audience, \u201cThat is nothing compared to what happens in McDonald\u2019s and Kentucky Fried shit every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morrissey\u2019s covers album, California Son,<\/em> will be released on Friday and features his renditions of songs by Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Roy Orbison, Dionne Warwick and Carly Simon, and guest collaborators include Billie Joe Armstrong and Grizzly Bear\u2019s Ed Droste.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morrissey\u2019s controversial endorsement of British far-right political party For Britain has led at least one record store to ban his music. Spillers, which bills itself as \u201cthe oldest record shop in the world,\u201d in Cardiff, Wales has announced it can no longer support the former Smiths\u2019 frontman, Wales Online reports. \u201cI\u2019m saddened but ultimately not […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 15:23:39","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}