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Morrissey denounces NME over racism row
By Ed Harris, Evening Standard 04.12.07
Fight: Morrissey is hitting back
Morrissey was today expected to hit back over claims he is racist as the row over his views on immigration continues to simmer.
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."
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