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When The Smiths' tour crew arrive at Loughborough University, Loughborough, England, UK, Europe, they discover that the gig is cancelled because vocalist Morrissey has taken to his sick bed.
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Johnny Marr (guitarist, The Smiths) : When you're young and inspired by what you're doing, food and sleep isn't a priority. We were travelling around Britain day after day in a windowless, smoke-filled van, and I could cope with it, but Morrissey took it badly.
Jill Smith (press officer, Rough Trade records) : Morrissey was always getting sick, because he would never eat properly and touring in a band can be exhausting. He was a vegetarian, and so was his friend Sandie Shaw, so she'd sometimes take food round for him, but I remember him giving me a food shopping list once and all it had on it was crisps, chocolate and croissants. That was typical.
Grant Cunliffe (sound engineer) : They weren't very good with food. I mean, if you look at Johnny and Morrissey in photographs in the early days, they're very thin. And Johnny used to throw up before every show, because he was so nervous about things.
Dave Harper (press officer, Rough Trade) : Cake was a popular thing with Morrissey. Big man for a cake. Cream, you know, creamy, tea-shoppy cake. We did stop at a tea shop once. And dumbbells. Big man with the weightlifting. He had a flat in Kensington and we helped him move. Odd flat. One of those sort of middle-aged person's flats, furnished, quite grand, in a mansion block. Gloomy place, with lots of books and Smiths posters and pictures of him. So we're helping him move, you know, and he had these dumbbells - traditional, metal pole, things at the end. I foolishly tried to pick one up, couldn't fucking get it off the ground. And he said, 'Oh, allow me.' And picked it up in one hand. He looked after himself. Despite the diet of cake.
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Jill Smith (press officer, Rough Trade records) : Morrissey was always getting sick, because he would never eat properly and touring in a band can be exhausting. He was a vegetarian, and so was his friend Sandie Shaw, so she'd sometimes take food round for him, but I remember him giving me a food shopping list once and all it had on it was crisps, chocolate and croissants. That was typical.
Grant Cunliffe (sound engineer) : They weren't very good with food. I mean, if you look at Johnny and Morrissey in photographs in the early days, they're very thin. And Johnny used to throw up before every show, because he was so nervous about things.
Dave Harper (press officer, Rough Trade) : Cake was a popular thing with Morrissey. Big man for a cake. Cream, you know, creamy, tea-shoppy cake. We did stop at a tea shop once. And dumbbells. Big man with the weightlifting. He had a flat in Kensington and we helped him move. Odd flat. One of those sort of middle-aged person's flats, furnished, quite grand, in a mansion block. Gloomy place, with lots of books and Smiths posters and pictures of him. So we're helping him move, you know, and he had these dumbbells - traditional, metal pole, things at the end. I foolishly tried to pick one up, couldn't fucking get it off the ground. And he said, 'Oh, allow me.' And picked it up in one hand. He looked after himself. Despite the diet of cake.