'A kind and beautiful soul': Morrissey, Johnny Marr, more pay tribute to Smiths' Andy Rourke
The Smiths were one of the most distinctive, tempestuous rock bands of the 1980s, and bassist Andy Rourke was an important part of holding it together while he could. In a band with a frontman and guitarist — Morrissey and Johnny Marr — often at each other's throats, Rourke's melodic, lively basslines, paired with the drumming of Mike Joyce, gave the Smiths one of rock's more distinct rhythm sections beneath all the
