Morrissey told to retire from music

With his increasingly worrying ill-health, Morrissey says he’s been told by doctors to quit music.

The former Smiths frontman told Mexico’s Reactor 105.7 that he’s been “cautioned to “ from performing, after the effects it’s had on his well-being.

He continued: “But it’s difficult for me because it’s very ingrained in me. I had a very bad time. I had internal bleeding and I was rushed into hospital and I had lost a lot of blood. They tried to patch me together over the following five weeks but it didn’t work… I was on lots of IV drips for almost five weeks, and each time it seemed as though I was back to robust health I would decline… I had lost so much blood I had become anaemic, but I’m still receiving ongoing treatment and I am very optimistic now.”

“It almost became absurd the number of things that happened to me, but everything just attacked me at once. The double pneumonia – everything was really a result of the fact I had lost so much blood, so the immune defenses were very, very low and couldn’t cope with anything, so therefore the slightest gust of wind and I would have a terrible cold.”

This month, Morrissey was hospitalised due to “double pneumonia”. He has previously been taken ill this year suffering from a bleeding ulcer and Barrett’s esophagus.