At 66, Morrissey Finally Names The 6 Bands He HATED Most

At 66, Morrissey Finally Names The 6 Bands He HATED Most Morrissey has spent forty years turning insults into a kind of performance art, going after other musicians in print with the same theatrical relish he brings to a chorus, treating the weekly British music press as his own personal stage for decades before social media ever existed to do the job for him. Long before Twitter feuds and Instagram subtweets, Morrissey had already perfected the art of the devastating one-liner delivered straight to a journalist's notepad, understanding instinctively that a well-placed insult could generate as many headlines as a new single. Some of what gets attributed to him online is exaggerated or invented outright, the kind of thing that sounds like Morrissey without ever actually being said by him, passed around in compilation videos and comment sections until the fabrication starts to feel more real than the actual record. But strip away the myths and there's still plenty of real, documented venom left over, feuds that went to court, feuds that ended in genuine apologies decades later, and one relationship so bitter and unresolved that it's still making headlines in 2026. So today we're separating fact from fiction and counting down six real conflicts between Morrissey and the people who used to share a stage, a studio, or a bandmate's dressing room with him.