The first band Morrissey was a singer in. The band was formed in the early 70s as Wild Ram, but they later changed the name to Ed Banger and the Nosebleeds. At that time they had Eddie Garrity on vocals and Vini Reilly on guitar. Later Vini Reilly became a member of Durutti Column, and he played guitars and keyboard on Morrissey's first solo album Viva Hate. Vini also played guitar on one of the rarest Morrissey recordings: I Know Very Well How I Got My Note Wrong (RealAudio file), a single that came with the first 1000 copies of Durutti Column's album titled Vini Reilly.
    In late 1977, after that Eddie and Vini had left the group, Pete Crooks on bass, and Toby on drums, shortened the name to The Nosebleeds, and Billy Duffy, later in The Cult, joined in on guitar and Morrissey took over the microphone. On Saturday 15 April 1978 Morrissey did his first public performance at the Manchester Polytechnic. Their second and last gig took place in May 1978 at the Ritz (supporting Magazine), including Morrissey / Duffy songs, like I Get Nervous, Peppermint Heaven, I Think I'm Ready For The Electric Chair, The Living Juke-Box and a cover of The Shangri-Las' Give Him A Great Big Kiss. Soon after the band dissolved. There are no known recordings of The Nosebleeds with Morrissey on vocals.

After that The Smiths split up Johnny Marr joined Pretenders for a about a year. He was on tour with them (six dates), co-wrote several songs with Hynde and played on the album Windows Of The World (1989).
Chrissie Hynde later sang background vocals on Morrissey's song My Love Life, and you can also spot her dancing in the video for Sing Your Life. On the soundtrack for the movie Boys On The Side Pretenders did a version of Morrissey's song Everyday Is Like Sunday.
Pretenders Archives is fan site, with lots of information about Pretenders
by LB & Taunia .
E-mail: PretendersArchives(at)usa.net

K. MacColl, 1959-2000 (RIP) was a background singer on The Smiths songs Ask and Golden Lights and on Morrissey's song Interesting Drug. Her version of the Smiths song You Just Haven´t Earned It Yet Baby can be found on her albums Kite (CD-version) and Galore, and on the She´s having a baby soundtrack. Johnny Marr has co-written and played guitar on some of her songs. Boz Boorer produced 3 of her songs, Perfect Day on the Galore album, Irish Cousin and The Butcher Boy on the Caroline CD single.
Freeworld is a fan site, with lots of information about Kirsty MacColl.
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E-mail: freeworld(at)kirstymaccoll.com

A popstar in the sixties with Morrissey as a big fan. In 1984 she recorded three Smiths songs- Hand In Glove, Jeane, I Don't Owe You Anything with Johnny Marr, Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce as musicians and Morrissey as a background singer.
Morrissey / Stephen Street wrote the song Please Help The Cause Against Loneliness for Morrissey's album Viva Hate, but it was never included. Instead it was given to Sandie and can be found, together with a remixed version of Hand in glove, on her albums Hello Angel and Nothing Less Than Brilliant (the later also includes I Don't Owe You Anything).

Morrissey did a duet with Siouxsie on the song Interlude in 1994. The song was written by George De La Rue / Hal Shaper and recorded by Timi Yuro in the 60s.
Siouxsie And The Banshees Home Page is a fan site, with lots of information about Siouxsie.
by Ryan Watkins.
E-mail: vamp(at)vamp.org

Andy Rourke has recorded with 'Soak the Sin' from Sweden on 2 tracks for their debut album 'The Work is Done'. The tracks are called 'I said no' and 'Seven is Seven'. There is a video for 'I said no' in which Andy appears in a cameo role. This can be seen at in the AUDIO section.
'Soak the Sin' also played at Manchester v Cancer which was arranged by Andy.

A site dedicated to Morrissey's co-writer and guitar player Alain Whyte. Pictures.
by Jane Birkin. eugene, or, usa.
E-mail: alainwhyteis(at)hotmail.com

Ex Stone Roses guitarist Aziz Ibrahim is currently working on his debut solo album with former The Smiths members Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce.
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Morrissey's guitarist and co-writer "Boz" Boorer's webpage.
Info about his recording studio: "House of Boz Studio", and you can buy records released by his record label "N.V. Records". Boz also got some Rare Rockabilly Recordings for sale!
by Boz Boorer.
E-mail: boz(at)dircon.co.uk

An English group who recorded the Maxi-single 'Pisni iz the Smiths' with Smiths covers in a Ukrainian folksong style, with Ukrainian lyrics.

Morrissey has done a cover of their song 'Skin Storm'
by Trouserpress.

Pictures and experiences from touring with Morrissey's 1999 Oye Esteban Tour.
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