Morrissey wins the NME Readers Vote for the 2015 Godlike Genius Award

[conchrisoulis]

Just one year after NME awarded Johnny Marr with the Godlike Genius Award,
Morrissey topped the NME Readers Vote for 2015!

Will the magazine save face after so many years of dissing him and give the award next year?

Read more about the poll at the NME website

 

[Anonymous]

Just one year after NME awarded Johnny Marr with the Godlike Genius Award,
Morrissey topped the NME Readers Vote for 2015!

Will the magazine save face after so many years of dissing him and give the award next year?

Read more about the poll at the NME website

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The situation isn't quite that simple. They offered to give him the title back in around 2006/2007 but he turned it down.
NME's relationship with SPM varies from era to era, and from editor to editor. However,
I think they've realised by now that he is a fundamental element of the NME's readership, and always will be.