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And Finally
Merriweather and Ronson’s Smiths death threats
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 17 June 2009
Daniel Merriweather has revealed that he and Mark Ronson received death threats following the success of their cover of The Smiths’ ‘Stop Me’. It’s okay though, the death threats only came in via the net. That being “true Smiths fan style” of course. As you know, all those eighties Smiths fans only ever communicated via the internet.
Merriweather told Bebo’s pop show Beat: “I wasn’t really a big Smiths fan and I think that’s why I sort of didn’t realise how dangerous it was to cover a Smiths song. Mark was making an album, getting all his friends to sing his favourite songs, and he said ‘Do you want to sing this?’ I said yes and it did really well, [but then] we received death threats. In true Smiths fan style, it would always be via the internet, never face to face. It was like ‘I will stab you’, ‘I will hurt you’. It’s fair enough, it’s sacred ground, isn’t it? The only thing that mattered to me was if Morrissey hated it. But he said he liked it”.
