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Has Morrissey ever written or co-written his own music?

If you look at the articles about The Smiths's and Morrisey's discography, some articles (especially those regarding the early albums) explicitly state Morrissey only supplied the lyrics. For example (according to the articles) when he was the lead singer of the Smiths the music of all the songs was written by Johnny Marr. That continued with his first solo albums, albeit with different musicians. But in some of the later ones there are no separate specifications for "music" and "lyrics". That does not imply that Morrissey did start to write music. (It is noteworthy that not a single song is credited to him alone.) However that does not preclude the possibility that he did either. My question is: Are there explicit statements out there to decide the question one way or another? 178.51.2.117 (talk) 21:32, 9 August 2024 (UTC)