The Queen is dead On Tour
Label: None print on the poster
Details: 1986 poster “The Queen is Dead on Tour” (23,6″” x 35,4″)
The Smiths-The Queen is dead
Strangeways here we come
Label: Rough trade
Details: 1987 original promo poster out of UK (23,6″” x 35,4″)
Strangeways here come
Ask
Uk Chart: 14
Cover star: Yootha Joyce, english actor. The picture is a still from Catch us if you can, a 1965 movie directed by John Boorman.
Etchings on the single’s matrix: A- ARE YOU LOATHESOME TONIGHT? / B- TOMB IT MAY CONCERN
Listen to the song here
Poster Available Here
Ask - The Smiths - 1986, Oct
Ask
Shyness is nice and
Shyness can stop you
From doing all the things in life
You’d like to
Shyness is nice and
Shyness can stop you
From doing all the things in life
You’d like to
So, if there’s something you’d like to try
If there’s something you’d like to try
Ask me I wont say no, how could I?
Coyness is nice, and
Coyness can stop you
From saying all the things in
Life you’d like to
So, if there’s something you’d like to try
If there’s something you’d like to try
Ask me I wont say no, how could I?
Spending warm Summer days indoors
Writing frightening verse
To a buxom girl in Luxembourg
Ask me, ask me, ask me
Ask me, ask me, ask me
Because if it’s not Love
Then it’s the bomb, the bomb, the bomb,
the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb
That will bring us together
Nature is a language – can’t you read ?
Nature is a language – can’t you read ?
So, ask me, ask me, ask me,
Ask me, ask me, ask me
Because if it’s not Love
Then it’s the bomb, the bomb, the bomb,
the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb
That will bring us together
If it’s not Love
Then it’s the bomb
Then it’s the bomb
That will bring us together
So, ask me, ask me, ask me,
Ask me, ask me, ask me
Oh, la…
How soon is now?
Release date: 1985, February
UK Chart: 2
Cover Star: British actor Sean Barrett. The picture is a still from Dunkirk, a British movie directed by Leslie Norman in 1958. Barrett’s character is praying on the beach.
Etchings on the single’s matrix: A- THE TATTY TRUTH
Listen to the song here
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How soon is now? - The Smiths,1985, Feb
How Soon Is Now?
I am the son
and the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular
You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am Human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular
You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am Human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
Meat is murder
Release date: 1985, February
UK chart: 1
Cover star: Picture taken from the American documentary In the Year of the Pig, film about the origins of the Vietnam War, directed by Emile de Antonio in 1968. It was nominated for an Academy award for best documentary.
The words “Meat Is Murder” on the soldier’s helmet were originally “Make war not Love”
Etchings on the single’s matrix: 1- ILLNESS AS ART / 2- DOING THE WHYTENSHAWE WALTZ
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Meat is murder LP- The Smiths,1985, February
Meat is murder
1. The Headmaster Ritual
2. Rusholme Ruffians
3. I Want the One I Can’t Have
4. What She Said
5. That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
6. Nowhere Fast
7. Well I Wonder
8. Barbarism Begins at Home
9. Meat Is Murder
Shakespeare’s Sister
Release Date: 1985, March
UK chart: 26
Cover Star: Patricia Phoenix in her role of Elsie Tanner from the British TV soap opera Coronation Street, played by her from 1960 to 1973 and from 1976 until 1984.
Etchings on the single’s matrix: A- HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS
Listen to the song here
Poster Available Here
Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Sister
Young bones groan
And the rocks below say :
“Throw your skinny body down, son !”
But I’m going to meet the one I love
So please don’t stand in my way
Because I’m going to meet the one I love
No, Mamma, let me go !
Young bones groan
And the rocks below say :
“Throw your white body down !”
But I’m going to meet the one I love
At last ! At last ! At last !
I’m going to meet the one I love
La-de-da, la-de-da
No, Mamma, let me go !
No …
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That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
Release date: 1985, July
UK chart: 49
Cover Star: Same cover than Meat is murder LP but in different colour. Picture taken from the American documentary In the Year of the Pig, film about the origins of the Vietnam War, directed by Emile de Antonio in 1968. It was nominated for an Academy award for best documentary.
The words “Meat Is Murder” on the soldier’s helmet were originally “Make war not love”
Etchings on the single’s matrix: A- OURSOULS OURSOULS OURSOULS
Listen to the song here
Poster Available Here
That joke isn
That Joke Isn’ t Funny Anymore
Park the car at the side of the road
You should know
Time’s tide will smother you
And I will too
When you laugh about people who feel so
Very lonely
Their only desire is to die
Well, I’m afraid
It doesn’t make me smile
I wish I could laugh
But that joke isn’t funny anymore
It’s too close to home
And it’s too near the bone
It’s too close to home
And it’s too near the bone
More than you’ll ever know …
Kick them when they fall down
Kick them when they fall down
You kick them when they fall down
Kick them when they fall down
You kick them when they fall down
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The Boy with the thorn in his side
Release date: 1985, september
UK chart: 23
Cover Star: Truman Capote, american author . The photograph was taken by Cecil Beaton in 1949.
Etchings on the single’s matrix: A- “IS THAT CLEVER”… J.M. / B- ARTY BLOODY FARTY
Listen to the song here
Poster Available Here
The boy with the thorn in his side - The Smiths, 1985, September
The boy with the thorn in his side
The boy with the thorn in his side
Behind the hatred there lies
A murderous desire for love
How can they look into my eyes
And still they don’t believe me ?
How can they hear me say those words
Still they don’t believe me ?
And if they don’t believe me now
Will they ever believe me ?
And if they don’t believe me now
Will they ever, they ever, believe me ?
Oh …
The boy with the thorn in his side
Behind the hatred there lies
A plundering desire for love
How can they see the Love in our eyes
And still they don’t believe us ?
And after all this time
They don’t want to believe us
And if they don’t believe us now
Will they ever believe us ?
And when you want to Live
How do you start ?
Where do you go ?
Who do you need to know ?
Oh …
Oh no …
Oh …
Laa …
What difference does it make?
Release date: 1984, January
UK Chart: 12
Cover: British actor Terence Stamp. The still was taken from the film The Collector, 1965 directed by William Wyler. Terence Stamp did not give consent to use his image, so the Smiths withdrew the current singles and distributed them again with a recreation of the picture in that case characterised by Morrissey. The Smiths would obtain Terence Stamp’s permission and published the single back on the original cover.
Etchings on the single’s matrix: none
Listen to the song here
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What difference does it make – The Smiths, 1984, January
What difference does it make?
All men have secrets and here is mine
So let it be known
For we have been through hell and high tide
I can surely rely on you …
And yet you start to recoil
Heavy words are so lightly thrown
But still I’d leap in front of a flying bullet for you
So, what difference does it make ?
So, what difference does it make ?
It makes none
But now you have gone
And you must be looking very old tonight
The devil will find work for idle hands to do
I stole and I lied, and why ?
Because you asked me to !
But now you make me feel so ashamed
Because I’ve only got two hands
Well, I’m still fond of you, oh-ho-oh
The Smiths LP
Release date: 1984, February
UK Chart: 2
Cover Star: Joe Dalessandro, American actor and sex symbol, the picture is a still from Flesh, a movie directed by Paul Morrissey in 1968.
Etchings on the single’s matrix: none
Poster Available at Shop
The Smiths LP -1984, February
The Smiths LP
1. Reel Around The Fountain
2. You’ve Got Everything Now
3. Miserable Lie
4. Pretty Girls Make Graves
5. The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
6. Still Ill
7. Hand In Glove
8. What Difference Does It Make
9. I Don’t Owe You Anything
10. Suffer Little Children