The Trump-Smiths feud is the latest episode in a story that re-emerges every four years: the war between musicians and politicians over campaign music
Somewhere in Donald Trump’s orbit, embedded among the wild conspiracy theorists, worshipful toadies and dead-eyed schemers, there’s a Smiths fan.
This fact came to the nation’s attention last week after a video showed a Trump rally blasting the 1984 B-side Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want over the PA. And Johnny Marr, the onetime Smiths guitarist, wasn’t happy – in a tweet, the songwriter told fans to “consider this shit shut right down”.
