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Johnny Marr Rips Donald Trump For Playing Smiths Songs at Rallies

“I never in a million years would’ve thought this could come to pass,” Marr writes on social media.

Marr and frontman Morrisey co-wrote the melancholy number, which originally appeared as the b-side of the 1984 single “William, It Was Really Nothing,” and was later included in compilations Hatful of Hollow and Louder Than Bombs. Others posters on X (formerly Twitter) claim that the Smiths’ music has been used to warm-up crowds at multiple Trump rallies recently, including at his event in Laconia, New Hampshire on Monday (Jan. 22). The Rolling Stones, Phil Collins, Linkin Park, John Fogerty, Neil Young, R.E.M., Rihanna, Pharrell, Guns N’ Roses, Steven Tyler and the estates of Leonard Cohen and Tom Petty are among the many artists who’ve issued cease and desist letters to Trump and the former president’s team for using their works at rallies and for campaigns without consent.

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