With the Oasis reunion confirmed and sold out already, there are cries for other bands to reform and bring back the noise and nostalgia. Even just a year ago it would have seemed unimaginable that the Gallagher brothers would stand together on stage again, but after some reconciliation, and the promise of £50 million quid, they finally decided to put their differences aside.

So if they can do it…who next?

The Smiths would be a fantastic reunion, although they would be missing one original member due to the sad passing of their bassist, Andy Rourke, in 2023. But fans would surely love to see the remaining three band members on stage and maybe even former part-time “Smith” Craig Gannon, or even Kevin Kennedy aka Curly Watts off of Coronation Street (google it- I’m not even joking).

Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr have been bickering with each other in the press for decades. You wonder if the first thing they do when they’re asked for an opinion on something, they check to see what the other one has said first and say the opposite.

So what better time to revisit some of Steven Patrick Morrissey’s wit and charm Here are some of his best quotes, and surprise, surprise, he’s even got an opinion about Oasis. Oh, and just for a bit of fun, one of these is totally fake. 

Russell Brand’s ears might be burning as we speak:

"I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong. Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death”

William I was really a notepad:

“Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 percent papier mache.”

Asking for a little head from Elton:

“All I said was "bring me the head of Elton John", which would be one instance when meat would not be murder, if it was on a plate.”

Girlfriend in a chicken korma:

“Meat is murder, and as far as my reputation is concerned, I can't take the risk of being on a show alongside people who, in effect, amount to animal serial killers.”

The worst years of his life:

“There are indeed worse groups than Modern Romance. But can anybody seriously think of one?

Stop crying your heart out:

“Oasis are very tame to me. At a time when they have the spotlight of the world on them, they should have made the most revolutionary, creative record and instead it's practically awful. For a song that is trying so hard to create hooks, it doesn't really have any. God bless Noel; I'm sure he'll always have a spot on Bob's Full House, but I search for something with more bite and rage.”

Feed the world, but no meat please:

“I think Band Aid was diabolical. I think Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Many people find that very unsettling, but I'll say it as loud as anyone wants me to. In the first instance, the record itself was absolutely tuneless. One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England. It was an awful record considering the mass of talent involved. And it wasn't done shyly – it was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.”

Celebate good times, come on:

“That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.”

Frankly Mr Madeley:

“Thank you to the British television person (I'm not exactly sure what it is he does) Richard Madeley who, at least, made me laugh recently by referring to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This comment may or may not be true, but I think it's a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother.”

Margaret on the guillotine:

“Margaret Thatcher has ensured that a female Prime Minister would never again be risked.”

Getting Ziggy with it:

“Bowie is not the person he was. Now he gives people what he thinks will make them happy and they're yawning their heads off. And by doing that, he is not relevant. He was only relevant by accident.”

Elton gets it again:

“I hope Victoria Beckham outlives me; the prospect of a tearful Elton [Elton John] trotting out Candle in the Wind for a third time is unbearable.”

Heaven knows:

“My life is unrelenting grey, relieved only by passing moments of absolute blackness.

The only time I'm truly alive is when I'm on a stage singing – mostly about death, it has to be said.”

This is a low:

“Sometimes I like to just lie in the bathtub and cover myself in peanut butter, while listening to the shipping forecast. It’s the only time I ever really feel alive.”

There is a light:

“I was happy being sad until I visited an analyst, and now I'm bored with being sad. Progress.”

Lessons in love:

“Having never been sufficiently drunk to enjoy a Level 42 record, I prescribe the Burmese neck ring to these chumps for being so icy.”

Can you feel the love tonight? FFS, Elton’s on the chopping board again:

“Elton John is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested, he's incredibly rich and he's just hoisting his problems on to everybody and working them out publicly. He should just go away.”

I know it’s over:

“I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also. There has to reach a point where you've said enough, I think.”

I’m a weirdo:

“I could sing like a constipated rodent with clothes peg on its nose and bleat witlessly over breakbeats but what would Thom Yorke do then?”

Bigmouth strikes again:

“The Brits are ghastly and there has never been a time when they haven't got it wrong. For me to ever accept a Brit, well, I never would. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times award.”

So did you spot the fake? Yes, it was the peanut butter one, but only because he hasn’t said it YET. You know it’s on the tip of his tongue.

There’s no denying it would be a pretty boring world without characters like Morrissey, but the chances of him working out his differences with Johnny Marr are as likely as Andrew Tate reading a Cbeebies bedtime story.  But the classic Morrissey quotes will go on, and if you missed the latest one, don’t worry- there’ll be another one along in just a minute.