Rick Astley would sing The Smiths' songs 'every weekend' - but Blossoms do not need him - video Dailymotion

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Rick Astley has admitted he would love to do a another Songs of The Smiths tour with Blossoms but concedes the indie band don't need him at the moment as they're career goes from strength-to-strength.

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00:00I think blossoms don't need me for anything to be honest they do. I talk to the guys all the time

00:29and stuff and and we have a real bond over that music because I think even though we're generationally

00:34in different you know time space literally we both absolutely love those songs and those records

00:40and as fun as it was to do and I'd do it every every weekend they've got the whole career going

00:46on you know I mean so we'll see who knows but but I think we've always got that memory do you know

00:51what I mean and I think it was just such a mad wonderful thing to do I I've always had this

00:56fantasy of singing those songs at some point and I was just going to do it in a local pub and get

01:00a band together and do it and I chatted to them about that on their podcast and before we know

01:05what you're doing we got in a room and just played some of those songs and we all I was practically

01:10crying and we all just said we've got to do this we've got to do this and we were just going to do

01:13it in a pub in Stockport but we've got friends in high places so we got to do it somewhere else

01:32I've seen I've seen Johnny Marr sing them songs in the last year or two and it's amazing it's you know

01:39it's just they're just amazing songs I think did you get a chance to speak to Johnny and did he say

01:44what he thought of the gigs I've never met him to be honest so no I've no idea I'm I'm sure he's got

01:49other fish to fry I'm sure he's not worried about what anybody else is doing

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Rick Astley would sing The Smiths' songs 'every weekend' - but Blossoms do not need him

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