BBC News - UK — Could The Smiths get back together? Johnny Marr tells BBC Newsnight he did discuss it with Morrissey. more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — Marr: The Smiths almost reunited in 2008 more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The New Yorker shared an excerpt from Elena Ferrante's new book Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey. Johnny Marr has set U.S. book tour dates for his autobiography Set the Boy Free. Ebooks on sale for $1.99 today: An Atlas of Impossible... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Also check out a song by Marr's pre-Smiths band Freak Party. Continue reading… more info

The Quietus — Marr had spoken with Morrissey in 2008 about the potentiality of a reunion of the band but it never materialised more info

Uncut — The pair met in a pub where they talked "about the possibility of the band re-forming" Johnny Marr The pair met in a pub where they talked "about the possibility of the band re-forming" The post Johnny Marr: The Smiths nearly reunited in 2008 ... more info

Chorus.fm — Johnny Marr talks with The Guardian about how The Smiths almost reunited in 2008: The drinks kept coming and we sat talking for hours. We chatted, as we always did, about the records we loved, and eventually we moved on to “that subject”. There h... more info

411 Mania — – Johnny Marr recently spoke with The Guardian, discussing the history of The Smiths and promoting his upcoming memoir, “Set the Boy Free.” He reveals[.........] more info

Stereogum — Johnny Marr’s autobiography Set The Boy Free is coming out in a couple of weeks, and the former Smiths guitarist just shared an excerpt from the book on The Guardian today, revealing that a Smiths reunion was “a very real prospect” in 2008. Whi... more info

Consequence of Sound — "In that moment it seemed that with the right intention it could actually be done and might even be great." more info