Morning - as we know the Smiths signed to Rough Trade after Johnny went down there in person with demos and demanded that Geoff Travis listen to them (that's how the story goes anyway). But before that there's a story to the effect of:- the Smiths tried to sign with Factory/could have signed...
Hiya - really happy with this.
I know the vocals aren't technically great but they aren't supposed to be.
I wrote the words, Nick Sagar on guitars.
The fantastic Tracy Melling on BV's - thanks.
For a bit of fun I thought I'd share this - nods to John Cooper Clarke, clearly.
Based on a true story as it happens...
Mercuryin the Water
So reasons to be cheerful
I have precisely none
the final scene is tearful
unless I act smart and...get gone
Her psycho patter...
Hiya - I wonder if this is part of the problem.
I'm not going to get into an 'is he racist?' thing because on balance I don't think he is. I think Morrissey is a contrarian and supports the underdog at such things, hence he was 'left wing' in 80s Thatcher Britain and supports 'silent majority'...
Evening - glad to have started a couple of good threads on here.
I remember a quote from an old guitar tutor of mine who insisted that Morrissey HATED synths in the early days of the Smiths. Apparently he had said "when a synth appears on a Smiths record I won't be" or something like that.
If...
Evening - hope we're good.
I was musing about this period earlier, rattling through a few possibilities and wondered what some of you thought of the post-Strangeways attempts to essentially replace Johnny Marr and continue under the Smiths name.
My understanding is that it lasted a matter of a...
Hiya - hope we're good.
I've put these two albums together in the title as they seem to be regarded (in my view not altogether wrongly) as sort of 'career stopping' albums for Moz.
Many of us have great affection for both Your Arsenal (probably his most consistent and complete album IMO) and I...
Evening - I've no wish to turn this into a gossipy type thread, but wanted to make an observation and see what people thought.
There are of course 'gaps' in Moz's history in this area and I don't think we know everything, nor have we any natural right to. His private business is entirely that...
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