I gathered it would not be your cuppa, as you seem much too sensible and your own person. By the by, you may have also noticed that the news sections pales in comparison and is often cribbed from hither - not to mention the inferior layout with an oh-so-familiar-if-obnoxiously-darker color scheme.
Possibly. If so, there were unforeseen birth defects. Or perhaps Vegan.Cro-Magnon was merely dropped on its head. It gets mixed up rather easily, what with all the reflexive and desperate proclamations that List of the Lost is a "brilliant book," etc. etc.
Morrissey has said more than once that Johnny rescued him from a slough of despond. Even in Autobiography he implied he was going nowhere at the time. He indeed seemed "well on his way": to Obscurity. Can it really be a "false myth" if the person it concerns has more or less confirmed what has been written? Further, Johnny didn't go to Morrissey's house "asking him to please be the singer." He wanted to start a songwriting partnership a la Lieber and Stoller. Creating a band and having Morrissey be the singer was, at best, a secondary goal.