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Bret, David (2004). Morrissey: Scandal and Passion. Robson. ISBN 1-86105-787-3. covers both Smiths and Morrissey's solo career) The artwork, once more, gives a hint into Morrissey’s creative process. It’s a picture of Shelagh Delaney, the author of “A Taste of Honey.” The young soldier on the cover is Marine Corporal Michael Wynn and is pictured on 21 September 1967 in Da Nang, South Vietnam, in the middle of what was termed “Operation Ballistic Charge”. The shot was used as a publicity still for the film In The Year Of The Pig by American director Emile de Antonio, which was one of the first documentaries that was critical of the US involvement in the Vietnam war. RPM100 Albums". RPM. 40 (9). 5 May 1984. Archived from the original on 19 May 2011 . Retrieved 29 October 2008.

Still, there’s a rushed energy and manic paranoia that drives some of the album’s best songs. Look no further for proof than the title. Strangeways is the name of a notorious English prison. Morrissey brought a political stance to many of his interviews, courting further controversy. Among his targets were the Thatcher government, the British monarchy and the famine relief project Band Aid. Morrissey famously quipped of the last, "One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England" [56] ("torture" being a reference to the music that resulted from the project). The subsequent single-only release " Shakespeare's Sister" reached number 26 on the UK Singles Chart, although the only single taken from the album, " That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore", was less successful, barely making the top 50. [57] In 1985, the Smiths completed lengthy tours of the UK and the US. [58] 1986: The Queen Is Dead [ edit ] The Smiths in 1985 The Smiths’ status is such that finding underplayed songs by the band is no easy feat. With that in mind, “Strangeways, Here We Come” becomes a more pleasant listen with each passing year. Search Results: The Smiths". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 14 August 2014 . Retrieved 14 November 2020. Goddard, Simon (2009). Mozipedia: The Encyclopaedia of Morrissey and the Smiths. London: Ebury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-09-192709-7.Morrissey and designer Caryn Gough changed the slogan on the soldier's helmet to reflect the album's title and repeated the image four times, like an Andy Warhol silkscreen. You can read more about Michael Wynn and his reaction to being the star of Meat Is Murder here. Gaucho. A big leap forward into their more jazzy maturity and again, the music is great and the lyrics streets ahead of anyone else’s. Hey Nineteen and Babylon Sisters hit me at a time when I was over 30 and I was meeting younger girls, with all those attendant problems. The Smiths did not record much, but most of the songs they commissioned to tape are iconic. The fame and the reputation of Johnny Marr and Morrissey, the band’s leading contributors, cannot help but also inform how their music is judged. Peak Morrissey:“Under the iron bridge we kissed/ And although I ended up with sore lips/ It just wasn’t like/ The old days anymore” 31. “Cemetry Gates” Offiziellecharts.de – The Smiths – Rank" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 5 August 2023.

It was written in preparation for a John Peel session. I wrote it the same night as Pretty Girls Make Graves and Still Ill. I knew immediately it would be our next single.” It only reached No.25 in the UK charts. Post-split, as The Smiths still had to release one more album to fulfil their contractual obligations to their record label, Rank, a live album of a concert from The Queen Is Dead Tour was released. Two shows on the tour were filmed, including the Kilburn gig recorded for the album, and the footage was used in the Ask video, superimposed over a storyboard starring actors.

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ITV. "The Smiths - These Things Take Time (documentary)". YouTube. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021 . Retrieved 11 April 2021.