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[[Category:Influences on Morrissey - Music]] [[File:A-Certain-Ratio 2.jpg | 200px | right | thumb |A Certain Ratio]] == Relevance == Morrissey took money for the band once and knew Simon Topping prior to the group forming.<br> Marr's first appearence after leaving The Smiths was with A Certain Ratio.<br> Morrissey stated: <blockquote> "Of his band A Certain Ratio, Simon Topping tells me: ‘We’re doing a cover of Frankenstein by the New York Dolls.’ I ask Jesus exactly how I am expected to take such news. Having spent so long outside the palace gates, I somehow cannot believe it. I had served as a thematic thread for Simon as he pieced his band together, and I had placed the ad for a drummer for Simon that had produced Donald Johnson, who would become A Certain Ratio’s savior. My affection for Simon remained solid, but Major Domo I wasn’t. I collected the cash for A Certain Ratio’s first-ever gig at the Band On the Wall, but couldn’t for the life of me understand why. Heart on backwards, I began to suffer daily panic attacks. My mother is alarmed as my heart seems to be stuck in my throat. I endure the common slipway of prescribed antidepressants when I am really only reacting quite naturally to my humiliating surroundings – plus lack of air. I travel in the van with A Certain Ratio to Liverpool for their debut at Eric’s, and although the band look terrific, nothing that isn’t my own seems to work for me." </blockquote> And mentions thereafter: <blockquote> "When my old friend Simon Topping appeared on the cover of the NME, I died a thousand deaths of sorrow and lay down in the woods to die." </blockquote> Marr's sighting via N.M.E 05/09/1987: <gallery> File:HiRes-1 (1).jpg | [https://www.mdmarchive.co.uk/artefact/22946/A_CERTAIN_RATIO_SMITHS_MORRISSEY_JOHNNY_MARR_PRESS_1987 source] </gallery>
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