Posters 1984 – The Smiths

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

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Single Promo poster - The Smiths, 1984, January

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

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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

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The Smiths LP -1984, February

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

 
 

The Smiths and Sandie Shaw – Hand in glove

Release date: 1984, April

UK Chart: 27

Cover: Rita Tushingham in a still from Shelagh Delaney’s play A Taste of Honey directed by Tony Richardson in 1961.

Etchings on the single’s matrix: none

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The Smiths and Shandie Shaw - hand in glove, 1984, April

The Smiths and Shandie Shaw – hand in glove

Hand in glove

Hand in glove
The sun shines out of our behinds
No, it’s not like any other love
This one is different – because it’s us

Hand in glove
We can go wherever we please
And everything depends upon
How near you stand to me

And if the people stare
Then the people stare
Oh, I really don’t know and I really don’t care

There’s no shame, ohhh no…
Ohhh no…

Hand in glove
The Good People laugh
Yes, we may be hidden by rags
But we’ve something they’ll never have

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Heaven Knows I’m miserable now

Release date: 1984, May

UK Chart:  10

Cover star: The ‘cover star’ is 1961 152.000 Pounds Pools winner Viv Nicholson who wrote a book call Spend Spend Spend after she went bankruptcy. The picture shows Nicholson standing outside her childhood home just after her husband had died.

Etchings on the single’s matrix:
7″· A- SMITHS INDEED / B- ILL FOREVER.
12″· A- SMITHS PRESUMABLY / B- FOREVER ILL

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Single Promo poster - The Smiths, 1984, may

Heaven knows I

Heaven knows I’m miserable now

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
But heaven knows I’m miserable now

I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
And heaven knows I’m miserable now

In my life
Why do I give valuable time
To people who don’t care if I live or die ?

Two lovers entwined pass me by
And heaven knows I’m miserable now

I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
And heaven knows I’m miserable now

In my life
Oh, why do I give valuable time
To people who don’t care if I live or die ?

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William, it was really nothing

Release date: 1984, August

UK chart:  17

Cover star: Uncredited photograph of a man sitting on the edge of a bed for included in a 1982 advertisement for A.D.S. speakers (on the cover of the single a speaker can be seen on the bed). However due to legal reasons later pressings were replaced by Morrissey for a still of Billie Whitelaw from the film Charlie Bubbles, directed by Albert Finney, 1967.

Etchings on the single’s matrix: A- THE IMPOTENCE OF ERNEST / B- ROMANTIC AND SQUARE IS HIP ‘N’ AWARE

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Single Promo poster - The Smiths

William, it was really nothing – The Smiths, 1984, Aug

William, it was really nothing

The rain falls hard on a humdrum town
This town has dragged you down
Oh, the rain falls hard on a humdrum town
This town has dragged you down
Oh, no, and everybody’s got to live their life
And God knows I’ve got to live mine
God knows I’ve got to live mine
William, William it was really nothing
William, William it was really nothing
It was your life …

How can you stay with a fat girl who’ll say :
“Oh ! Would you like to marry me ?
“And if you like you can buy the ring”
She doesn’t care about anything
Would you like to marry me ?
And if you like you can buy the ring
I don’t dream about anyone – except myself !
Oh, William, William it was really nothing
William, William

Hatful of Hollow LP

Release date: 1984, November

Uk Chart: 7

Cover star:  1983 photo taken by Gilles Decroix for Liberation french magazine  of a Jean Cocteau fan named Fabrice Colette sporting a Cocteau tattoo of a drawing seen in his ‘The White Book’. The image was published originally on a   french magazine special of 1983, Liberation, about  Cocteau where appeared the image of the model idolising him.

Etchings on the single’s matrix: 1- IMPOTENCE OF ERNEST

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LP Promo poster - The Smiths, 1984, Novembre

Hatful of hollow – The Smiths, 1984, Novembre

Hatful of Hollow

1. William, It Was Really Nothing

2. What Difference Does It Make?

3. These Things Take Time

4. This Charming Man

5. How Soon Is Now?

6. Handsome Devil

7. Hand In Glove

8. Still Ill

9. Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now

10. This Night Has Opened My Eyes

11. You’ve Got Everything Now

12. Accept Yourself

13. Girl Afraid

14. Back To The Old House

15. Reel Around The Fountain

16. Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want