List of Morrissey personnel

Summary

Since the break-up of The Smiths, Morrissey has worked with several musicians throughout his career as a solo artist. The following is a list of musicians and personnel for each of his solo albums.

Current members edit

Images Name Years active Instrument(s) Release contributions
Morrissey 1988–present
  • lead vocals
  • bagpipes
All Morrissey releases
Jesse Tobias 2005–present guitar All Morrissey releases from Live at Earls Court (2005) to Without Music The World Dies
Brendan Buckley 2021–present drums Without Music The World Dies (unreleased)
Juan Galeano 2022–present bass
Camila Grey 2023–present keyboards
Carmen Vandenberg guitar

Former members edit

Images Name Year(s) active Instrument(s) Release contributions
Stephen Street 1988–1990
  • bass
  • guitar
  • keyboards
  • Viva Hate (1988)
  • "The Last of the Famous International Playboys" & "Interesting Drug" (1989)

He also composed the single "Ouija Board, Ouija Board" but isn't credited for performing on it.

Andy Rourke bass
  • "The Last of the Famous International Playboys" & "Interesting Drug" (1989)
  • "November Spawned a Monster" & "Piccadilly Palare" (1990)
Andrew Paresi drums
  • Viva Hate (1988)
  • "Ouija Board, Ouija Board" (1989)
  • "November Spawned a Monster" & "Piccadilly Palare" (1990)
  • Kill Uncle (1991)
Vini Reilly 1988
  • guitar
  • keyboards
Viva Hate (1988)
Craig Gannon 1988–1989 guitar
Mike Joyce 1989–1990 drums
  • "The Last of the Famous International Playboys" & "Interesting Drug" (1989)
Neil Taylor 1989 guitar
Matthew Seligman bass "Ouija Board, Ouija Board"
Kevin Armstong 1989–1990 guitar
Mark E. Nevin 1990–1991 Kill Uncle & "Sing Your Life" (1991)
Mark Bedford bass Kill Uncle (1991)
Boz Boorer 1991–2020 guitar
Alain Whyte
  • 1991–2009
  • 2021–2023
  • guitar
  • backing vocals
All Morrissey releases from Your Arsenal to Ringleader of the Tormentors.

He co-wrote a plurality of tracks on Years of Refusal but did not perform on that album.

Spencer Cobrin
  • 1991–1993
  • 1995–1997
drums
  • Your Arsenal (1992)
  • Beethoven Was Deaf (1993)
  • Southpaw Grammar (1995)
  • Maladjusted (1997)
Jonny Bridgwood
  • 1991
  • 1993–1997
Gary Day
  • 1991–1993
  • 1999–2006
Woodie Taylor 1993–1994
Spike T. Smith 1999–2002 Oye Esterban Tour/ Your are the Quarry pre records
Dean Butterworth 2003–2005 All Morrissey releases from You Are the Quarry to Live at Earls Court.
Matt Chamberlain 2005–2007 Ringleader of the Tormentors (2006)
Matt Walker 2007–2020
Solomon Walker
  • 2007–2014
  • 2021
bass
  • Years of Refusal (2009)
  • World Peace Is None of Your Business (2014)

Recording timeline edit

Role Album
Viva Hate
(1988)
Kill Uncle
(1991)
Your Arsenal
(1992)
Vauxhall and I
(1994)
Southpaw Grammar
(1995)
Mal-
adjusted

(1997)
You Are the Quarry
(2004)
Ringleader of the Tormentors
(2006)
Years of Refusal
(2009)
World Peace
(2014)
Low in High School
(2017)
I Am Not a Dog on a Chain
(2020)
Guitars Vini Reilly,

Stephen Street

Mark E. Nevin Alain Whyte, Boz Boorer Alain Whyte,

Boz Boorer, Jesse Tobias

Boz Boorer, Jesse Tobias
Bass Stephen Street Mark Bedford Gary Day Jonny Bridgwood Gary Day Solomon Walker Mando Lopez
Drums Andrew Paresi Spencer Cobrin Woodie Taylor Spencer Cobrin Dean Butterworth Matt Chamberlain Matt Walker
Key-
boards
Vini Reilly Seamus Beaghen, Steven Heart None Roger Manning Michael Farrell Roger Manning, Michael Farrell Gustavo Manzur

Timeline edit

  • Note: Morrissey was inactive from 1998 until 2003.

Other musicians edit

Studio personnel edit

Solo Writing Credits edit

with Alain Whyte:-

  • "Glamorous Glue", "We'll Let You Know", "The National Front Disco", "Certain People I Know", "We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful", "You're the One for Me, Fatty", "Seasick, Yet Still Docked" and "Tomorrow" from Your Arsenal
  • "Billy Budd", "Hold On to Your Friends", "Why Don't You Find Out for Yourself?", "I Am Hated for Loving", "Used to Be a Sweet Boy" and "The Lazy Sunbathers" from Vauxhall and I
  • "The Boy Racer", "The Operation", "Dagenham Dave", "Do Your Best and Don't Worry", "Best Friend on the Payroll" and "Southpaw" from Southpaw Grammar – "Fantastic Bird" and "Nobody Loves Us" (only on remastered version).
  • "Alma Matters", "Ambitious Outsiders", "Trouble Loves Me", "Papa Jack", "Roy's Keen" and "He Cried" from Maladjusted - "Heir Apparent", "The Edges Are No Longer Parallel", "This Is Not Your Country" and "Sorrow Will Come in the End" (only on 2009 re-release).
  • "America Is Not the World", "Irish Blood, English Heart", "I Have Forgiven Jesus", "How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel?", "First of the Gang to Die", "Let Me Kiss You", "All the Lazy Dykes" and "You Know I Couldn't Last" from You Are the Quarry
  • "I Will See You in Far-Off Places", "Dear God Please Help Me", "The Father Who Must Be Killed", "Life Is a Pigsty", "I'll Never Be Anybody's Hero Now" and "To Me You Are a Work of Art" from Ringleader of the Tormentors
  • "Something Is Squeezing My Skull", "Mama Lay Softly on the Riverbed", "When Last I Spoke to Carol", "It's Not Your Birthday Anymore" and "You Were Good in Your Time" from Years of Refusal
  • "Boulevard", "Notre-Dame", "Happy New Tears" and "The Monsters of Pig Alley" from Without Music the World Dies
  • "Good Looking Man About Town", "Don't Make Fun of Daddy's Voice", "Ganglord", "My Dearest Love", "The Never-Played Symphonies", "Shame Is the Name", "Munich Air Disaster 1958", "It's Hard to Walk Tall When You're Small", "Teenage Dad on His Estate", "Friday Mourning", "My Life Is a Succession of People Saying Goodbye" and "Because of My Poor Education" from Swords
  • "Let the Right One Slip In", "There Speaks a True Friend", "Pashernate Love", "Black-Eyed Susan", "A Swallow on My Neck", "Whatever Happens, I Love You", "Have-a-Go Merchant, "You Must Please Remember" and "I Am Two People" are tracks that appeared on B-sides of Morrissey singles.
  • "Boxers" and "Sunny" are non-album singles.
  • "Action Man", "Teresa, Teresa", "When I Was Young", "I Was Bully, Do Not Forget Me", "I'm Looking Forward to Going Back" and "Home Is a Question Mark" are unreleased tracks.

with Boz Boorer:-

with Jesse Tobias:-

with Stephen Street:-

  • "Alsatian Cousin", "Little Man, What Now?", "Everyday Is Like Sunday", "Bengali In Platforms", "Angel, Angel Down We Go Together", "Late Night, Maudlin Street", "Suedehead", "Break Up The Family", "The Ordinary Boys", "I Don't Mind If You Forget Me", "Dial-a-Cliché" and "Margaret On The Guillotine" from Viva Hate – "Treat Me Like a Human Being" (only on remastered version).
  • "Interesting Drug", "Will Never Marry", "Such a Little Thing Makes Such a Big Difference", "The Last of the Famous International Playboys", "Ouija Board, Ouija Board", "Hairdresser on Fire", "Lucky Lisp" and "Disappointed" from Bona Drag – "Happy Lovers At Last United", "Lifeguard On Duty", "Please Help the Cause Against Loneliness" and "The Bed Took Fire" (only on 2010 re-release).
  • "I Know Very Well How I Got My Name", "Oh Well, I'll Never Learn", "Sister, I'm A Poet", "Michael's Bones", "Journalists Who Lie" and "Safe, Warm Lancashire Home" are tracks that appeared on B-sides of Morrissey singles.
  • "I Don't Want Us To Finish" is an unreleased track.

with Mark E. Nevin:-

  • "Our Frank", "Asian Rut", "Sing Your Life", "King Leer", "Driving Your Girlfriend Home", "The Harsh Truth of the Camera Eye", "(I'm) The End of the Family Line" and "There's a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends" from Kill Uncle
  • "You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side" and "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday" from Your Arsenal
  • "Tony The Pony", "The Loop" and "I've Changed My Plea To Guilty" are tracks that appeared on B-sides of Morrissey singles.
  • "Pregnant for the Last Time" and "My Love Life" are non-album singles.
  • "Kill Uncle" and "Born to Hang" are unreleased tracks.

with Gustavo Manzur:-

with Mando Lopez:-

with Gary Day:-

  • "You Know I Couldn't Last" from You Are the Quarry
  • "Pashernate Love", "Mexico", "Let the Right One Slip In", "The Slum Mums", and "Noise is the Best Revenge" are tracks that appeared on B-sides of Morrissey singles.

with Clive Langer:-

with Spencer Cobrin:-

  • "Wide To Receive" from Maladjusted - "Lost" and "Now I Am A Was" (only on 2009 re-release).
  • "It's Hard to Walk Tall When You're Small" is an unreleased track.

with Andy Rourke:-

  • "Yes, I Am Blind" from Bona Drag
  • "Girl Least Likely To" and "Get Off The Stage" are tracks that appeared on B-sides of Morrissey singles.

with Kevin Armstrong:-

with Andrew Watt:-

"I Am Veronica", "My Funeral" and "Saint In A Stained Glass Window" from Bonfire of Teenagers

with Michael Farrell:-

Not Credited To Morrissey (ie Cover Versions):-

  • "Morning Starship", "Don't Interrupt The Sorrow", "Only A Pawn In Their Game", "Suffer The Little Children", "Days Of Decision", It's Over, Wedding Bell Blues, "Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets", "Lady Willpower", "When You Close Your Eyes", "Lenny's tune" and "Some Say I Got Devil" from California Son
  • "A Song From Under The Floorboards", "Human Being", "It Happens Every Time", "Moon River", "No One Can Hold A Candle To You", "East West", "Skin Storm", "Drive-In Saturday" (live), "That's Entertainment", "Trash" (live), "You Say You Don't Love Me" (live), "To Give (The Reason I Live)" (live), "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?" (live), "I Didn't Know What To Do" (live), "Judy Is A Punk" (live), "Rose Garden" (live) and "You'll Be Gone" (live) are tracks that appeared on B-sides of Morrissey singles.
  • "Rainbow Valley" is an unreleased track.