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There was this little piece of news in The Boston Globe while I was home:

"Morrissey's March 29 show in Boston was supposed to be a big deal for Eli "Paperboy" Reed and his band, the True Loves. Word was Moz had chosen the Brookline-based combo to open several of his US dates, including his gig at the new and improved House of Blues. (The misanthrope's hitting the road in support of his new disc, "Years of Refusal," which drops Feb. 17.) But it's apparently not to be. Without so much as an explanation, the fickle former Smiths frontman summarily dumped Reed after seeing the soul man's show in London a few weeks back. Reed didn't respond to our call or e-mail yesterday, but he did dish to the message board Lemmingtrail. "It's alright, now at least we can do all the other stuff we couldn't do because of how long the tour was," Reed wrote. "We just played for 1,300 people headlining in Madrid so at least I have that going for me. I really just wanted to play Carnegie Hall." [Boston Globe]

My opinion is the Morrissey decided that Eli has too big of an ego for him and would not be reverential enough as an opening act. However, I must say that I hardly know anything about Morrissey other than the fact that he was in The Smiths, so I could be way off base.