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If two brothers who despise each other with such vitriolic passion can get back together for the good of music, asked fans, why can’t Morrissey and Marr? The Smiths, who formed in Manchester in 1982, are regarded by many as the greatest band of their generation with Morrissey the best lyricist and Marr the top guitarist. Photograph: Claudio Cruz/AFP/Getty ImagesHe has also said Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, “cannot talk properly”; that “even Tesco wouldn’t employ [the Labour MP] Diane Abbott”; that halal meat is “evil”; and “the modern loony left seem to forget that Hitler was leftwing”.
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