Morrissey denounces NME over racism row

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The singer was poised to denounce the NME, the music magazine that carried an interview with the former Smiths frontman in which it quoted him as saying: "The gates of England are flooded. The country's been thrown away."

Morrissey, 48, who lives in Rome, was reported to be posting a statement on his website today, explaining why he had issued a writ for defamation against the NME and its editor, Conor McNicholas, claiming the magazine was out to get him.

"I believe they have deliberately tried to characterise me as a racist in a recent interview which I gave them in order to boost their dwindling circulation," the son of Irish immigrants says. "Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society."