The Smiths’ final album, 1987’s Strangeways, Here We Come, came out after the band had broken up. It includes “Paint A Vulgar Picture,” the band’s disgusted song about the music industry. In his acid-tongued lyrics, Morrissey described the “sickening greed” of record execs, “sycophantic slags,” rushing to sell music that a “dead star” left behind.” On Saturday night, Morrissey performed that song live for the first time in 29 years. I wonder why.
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