Donal Fallon: If Oasis could manage a reunion, what about The Smiths?

Donal Fallon: If Oasis could manage a reunion, what about The Smiths?

Noel and Liam Gallagher showed differences can be put aside, but Morrissey and Johnny Marr’s fierce battles have been on another level

The Smiths in 1985. From left: Johnny Marr, Morrissey, Mike Joyce and Andy Rourke. Photo: Getty

News this week of a forthcoming memoir from Mike Joyce, former drummer of The Smiths, could not have landed at a more perfect moment for publicity purposes.

As the Oasis Live 25 tour headed for North America, USA Today wrote of its own initial lack of belief that “the continually warring Gallagher brothers would make it through the first 17 shows”. They need not have worried. Night after night, the two men emerge hand in hand to an adoring crowd, who forget the very words “dynamic” and “p