Merriweather 'got Smiths death threats'

Daniel Merriweather has claimed that he got death threats from Smiths fans after covering the band's 1987 single 'Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before'.

The track, retitled 'Stop Me', was included on Mark Ronson's Version LP, reportedly upsetting fans of the original song.

Merriweather told Bebo show Beat: "I wasn't really a big Smiths fan and I think that's why I didn't realise how dangerous it was to cover a Smiths song.

"Mark was making an album and getting all his friends to sing his favourite songs. We thought he was doing it for fun, and he said, 'Do you want to sing this?' and I said yes. It ended up doing really well and we received death threats."

He added: "In true Smiths-fan style it would always be via the internet. It would never be face to face, but it was like 'I will stab you', 'I will hurt you'. I mean, it's fair enough. It's sacred ground, isn't it?

"The only thing that mattered to me was if Morrissey hated it. That would be a different story, but he seemed to like it - he said he did."