Jason Tate
06/07/06, 12:05 PM
According to a recent article (http://www.nme.com/news/smiths/23252) The Smiths (http://www.absolutepunk.net/thesmiths) asked Linda McCartney to guest star on their classic album 'The Queen Is Dead', guitarist Johnny Marr has revealed.
In a new interview with NME, Marr disclosed that frontman Morrissey (http://www.absolutepunk.net/morrissey) wrote to the wife of Sir Paul McCartney requesting she play piano on the track 'Frankly, Mr Shankly', though she politely refused.
Marr said: "Morrissey wrote a postcard to Linda McCartney asking her to play piano on the track, but she said no. She just said she couldn't do it, we would have loved for her to do it because we were big fans of hers.
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In a new interview with NME, Marr disclosed that frontman Morrissey (http://www.absolutepunk.net/morrissey) wrote to the wife of Sir Paul McCartney requesting she play piano on the track 'Frankly, Mr Shankly', though she politely refused.
Marr said: "Morrissey wrote a postcard to Linda McCartney asking her to play piano on the track, but she said no. She just said she couldn't do it, we would have loved for her to do it because we were big fans of hers.
Submitted by WarpSpeedChewy