Fact #159530
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Short story:
With The Smiths' UK tour on hold because vocalist Morrissey is sick, Rough Trade Records' press officer Scott Piering is appointed as the band's caretaker manager. Morrissey manages to record an appearance for the following night's Top Of The Pops.
Full article:
Geoff Travis (MD, Rough Trade): Because Joe Moss had quit just before the tour started, we were left having to deal directly with Morrissey on business matters, but we needed somebody to be their representative, so Scott Piering, one of our press officers, was appointed.
Grant Cunliffe (Smiths' sound engineer) : And that was it. We never had another manager. We had this series of people who thought they were managers. It was very much de facto. It would change almost from day to day. It would be like if someone spoke at the top of their voice and we all did what they said, he was the manager, or she was the manager. For that day, or that week. Literally.
Johnny Marr (guitarist, The Smiths) : Morrissey still wasn't well that day. I remember looking at him, about 10.30 in the morning and thinking he seemed a very strange colour, but he ploughed on and did Top Of The Pops all the same.
Scott Piering (radio plugger, the Smiths) : He's not an intellectual chess-player. He's a fencer. And he's simply one of the best. He can dodge, defer, parry, thrust, and keep people at bay to the point where they feel they've got something at the end of it, but he hasn't truly revealed anything except some of his own originality.
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Grant Cunliffe (Smiths' sound engineer) : And that was it. We never had another manager. We had this series of people who thought they were managers. It was very much de facto. It would change almost from day to day. It would be like if someone spoke at the top of their voice and we all did what they said, he was the manager, or she was the manager. For that day, or that week. Literally.
Johnny Marr (guitarist, The Smiths) : Morrissey still wasn't well that day. I remember looking at him, about 10.30 in the morning and thinking he seemed a very strange colour, but he ploughed on and did Top Of The Pops all the same.
Scott Piering (radio plugger, the Smiths) : He's not an intellectual chess-player. He's a fencer. And he's simply one of the best. He can dodge, defer, parry, thrust, and keep people at bay to the point where they feel they've got something at the end of it, but he hasn't truly revealed anything except some of his own originality.