Fun Recycled Andy Rourke Interview

The Daily Beast is generally awful, but this piece of filler is pretty fun.  Rourke sounds like he has his shit together at last, and Morrissey was clearly an insufferable ass since day one.  Stiffing the other guys on the money is especially ugly.  The only way to run a band is equal shares for everyone: share royalties and performance and tour earnings and expenses equally.  The post-Smiths years have proven that Morrissey and Marr were never as good without Rourke and Joyce; it was kinda a major fuck-up to kill that cash cow so quickly.  This is an interesting comparison with the way John Lydon treats the people he works with; Lydon cultivated this character of a snotty, insufferable asshole but was honest and fair, while Morrissey really was a snotty, insufferable asshole.