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Meat

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Morrissey's so militantly vegetarian he probably has an FBI file on him about it. His defining song in this regard is Smiths anthem "Meat is Murder," but it's far from the only time veggie politics has reared its head in his professional life.

One of his favorite threats is to cancel shows if he so much as smells a hot dog and he infamously left the Coachella stage in 2011 after catching a sniff of meat.

His quote: "I can smell burning flesh and I hope to God it's human."

Mike Joyce
A drummer and one half of the rhythm section of Morrissey's former band The Smiths (the other half, bassist Andy Rourke, claims Morrissey fired him from The Smiths via postcard), Mike Joyce sued Morrissey and fellow Smiths member Johnny Marr for an equal share of the bands' royalties in 1989 and won his case... and a one million pound settlement.

Moz had once compared Joyce and Rourke to "session musicians who could be replaced like parts of a lawnmower."