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THE SMITHS
Manchester, GB
* 11/1982	+ 19.5.19

Line-Up (1987):

Morrissey - voc
Johnny Marr - g
Andy Rourke - bg
Mike Joyce - ds

Former Members:

Craig Gannon (g, 1986)

Albums Discography:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	The Smiths	24.02.1984	Rough Trade		2	150
2.	Hatful Of Hollow	02.11.1984	Rough Trade		7
3.	Meat Is Murder	2/1985	Rough Trade		1	110
4.	Louder Than Bombs (2LP, in the UK 5/1987, Rough Trade)	4/1986	Sire		38	62
5.	The Queen Is Dead	16.06.1986	Rough Trade		2	70
6.	The World Won't Listen	2/1987	Rough Trade		2
7.	The Smiths: Interview (interview)	5/1987	Baktabak
8.	Strangeways, Here We Come	28.09.1987	Rough Trade		2	55
9.	Music & Media Interview (interview)	2/1988	Music & Media
10.	Rank	05.09.1988	Rough Trade		2	77
11.	Interview CD (interview)	11/1989	Baktabak
12.	Interview Collection (7" set, interview)	6/1990	Baktabak
13.	Casual (interview)	6/1990	Baktabak
14.	Best Of The Smiths Volume 1	17.08.1992	WEA		1	139
15.	Best Of The Smiths Volume 2	09.11.1992	WEA		29
16.	Singles	20.02.1995	WEA		5
17.	The Very Best Of The Smiths	6/2001	WEA		30
18.	Maximum Morrissey & the Smiths & Morrissey	14.12.2004	Orchard
19.	Hang the DJ: The Very Best of the Smiths (2CD)	07.10.2008	Rhino
20.	The Sound Of The Smiths (2CD)	10.11.2008	Rhino		21	98
21.	Singles Box (12x7" CD box set)	22.12.2008	Rhino
22.	The Smiths Complete -- Deluxe Collectors Box Set (8CD box set)	03.10.2011	Rhino		63
23.	30 Years of the Queen Is Dead	12.08.2016	The Collector's Forum

Johnny Marr:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	The Messenger produced by: Johnny Marr	25.02.2013	New Voodoo/Warner Bros		10	86
2.	Playland produced by: Johnny Marr/James Doviak	06.10.2014	New Voodoo/Warner Music		9	153
3.	Adrenalin Baby	09.10.2015	New Voodoo/Warner Bros		96
4.	Call The Comet	15.06.2018	New Voodoo		7
5.	Single Life	06.12.2019
6.	Fever Dreams Pts 1-4 (2CD)	25.02.2022	BMG		4
7.	Spirit Power - The Best Of Johnny Marr	11/2023	BMG		7

Singles Discography:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Hand In Glove / Handsome Devil	27.05.1983	Rough Trade
2.	This Charming Man / Wonderful Woman 12" + Accept Yourself / Jeane	28.10.1983	Rough Trade	22
3.	What Difference Does It Make / Back To The Old House 12" + These Things Take Time	20.01.1984	Rough Trade	7
4.	Hand In Glove / I Don't Owe You Anything 12" + Jeane & Sandie Shaw	16.04.1984	Rough Trade	21
5.	Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now / Suffer Little Children 12" + Girl Afraid	5/1984	Rough Trade	4
6.	William, It Was Really Nothing / Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want 12" + How Soon Is Now	24.08.1984	Rough Trade	9
7.	How Soon Is Now? / Well I Wonder 12" + Oscillate Wildly	1/1985	Rough Trade	20
8.	How Soon Is Now? / The Headmaster Ritual (v USA)	2/1985	Sire
9.	Shakespeare's Sister / What She Said 12" + Stretch Out And Wait	3/1985	Rough Trade	23
10.	That Joke Isn't Funny Any More / Meat Is Murder (live 12" + Nowhere Fast / Shakespeare's Sister / Stretch Out And Wait (all live)	6/1985	Rough Trade	49
11.	The Boy With A Thorn In His Side / Asleep 12" + Rubber Ring	9/1985	Rough Trade	19
12.	Big Mouth Strikes Again / Money Changes Everything 12" + Unloveable	5/1986	Rough Trade	17
13.	Panic / Vicar In A Tutu 12" + The Draize Train	7/1986	Rough Trade	5
14.	Ask / Cemetry Gates 12" + Golden Lights	10/1986	Rough Trade	8
15.	Shoplifters Of The World Unite / Half A Person 12" + London	1/1987	Rough Trade	4
16.	Sheila Take A Bow / Is It Really So Strange? 12" + Sweet And Tender Hooligan	4/1987	Rough Trade	6
17.	Girlfriend In A Coma / Work Is A Four-Letter Word 12" + I Keep Mine Hidden	8/1987	Rough Trade	10
18.	Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before / I Keep Mine Hidden (v USA)	10/1987	Sire
19.	I Started Something I Couldn't Finish / Pretty Girls Make Graves 12" + Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (live) MC + What's The World (live)	10/1987	Rough Trade	18
20.	Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me / Nowhere Fast (BBC Version) 12" + Russholme Russians (BBC Version) CD + William, It Was Really Nothing (BBC Version)	12/1987	Rough Trade	30
21.	Peel Sessions EP (18.5.83) (What Difference Does It Make? / Reel Around The Fountain / Miserable Lie / Handsome Devil)	10/1988	Strange Fruit	90
22.	The Headmaster Ritual / Nowhere Fast (live) / Meat Is Murder (live) / Stretch Out And Wait (live)	11/1988	Rough Trade
23.	Barbarism Begins At Home / Shakespeare's Sister / Stretch Out And Wait	11/1988	Rough Trade
24.	This Charming Man / Jean CD + Wonderful Woman / Accept Yourself	03.08.1992	WEA	7
25.	How Soon Is Now? / Hand In Glove CD1 + I Know It's Over / Suffer Little Children / Back To The Old House CD2 + The Queen is Dead / Handsome Devil / I Started Something I Couldn't Finish	31.08.1992	WEA	11
26.	There Is A Light That Never Goes Out / Handsome Devil (live) CD1 + Hand In Glove / I Don't Owe You Anything / Jeane CD2 + Money Changes Everything / Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others / Hand In Glove (all live)	12.10.1992	WEA	15
27.	Ask / Cemetry Games	06.02.1995	WEA	62
28.	This Charming Man / Jeane	17.11.2008	Rhino
29.	Hand in Glove / Handsome Devil (Live) (reissue)	17.11.2008	Rhino
30.	What Difference Does It Make? / Back To The Old House	17.11.2008	Rhino
31.	How Soon Is Now? / Well I Wonder	24.11.2008	Rhino
32.	Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now / Suffer Little Children	01.12.2008	Rhino
33.	Shakespeare's Sister / What She Said	01.12.2008	Rhino
34.	That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore / Meat Is Murder (Live)	01.12.2008	Rhino
35.	William, It Was Really Nothing / Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want	01.12.2008	Rhino
36.	The Boy With The Thorn In His Side / Asleep	15.12.2008	Rhino
37.	Bigmouth Strikes Again / Money Changes Everything	15.12.2008	Rhino
38.	The Headmaster Ritual / Oscillate Wildly	15.05.2009	Sire
39.	The Boy With The Thorn In His Side / Rubber Ring	12/2016	Warner Bros
40.	The Queen Is Dead	6/2017	Rhino	85

Johnny Marr:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Club Cuts Vol 293 (I'm Every Woman (Tomcat remix) / Candymash / Toxic Rhythm) & Mike Boerman & Whitney Houston	25.06.2007	DMC
2.	Upstarts / Psychic Beginners	18.02.2013	New Voodoo
3.	New Town Velocity / The It-Switch	18.07.2013	Warner Music
4.	The Trap	9/2014
5.	Easy Money / Use Me Up	02.10.2014	ADA
6.	Dynamo / Struck	09.02.2015	Warner Bros
7.	I Feel You / Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want	18.04.2015	New Voodoo
8.	Candidate / Exit Connection	29.06.2015	New Voodoo
9.	The Tracers	06.04.2018
10.	Hi Hello	5/2018
11.	If Law Is The Law / Alone On The Rope & Noel Gallagher	17.08.2018
12.	Armatopia	22.02.2019
13.	The Bright Parade	08.08.2019
14.	The Divine Chord & The Avalanches & MGMT	12/2020	Modular
15.	Spirit, Power And Soul	31.08.2021	BMG
16.	Fever Dreams Pt 1 EP (Spirit, Power And Soul / Receiver / All These Days / Ariel)	15.10.2021	BMG
17.	Fever Dreams Pt 2 EP (Tenement Time / Sensory Street / Lightning People / Hideaway Girl)	17.12.2021	BMG
18.	Night And Day	10.01.2022	BMG
19.	Fever Dreams Pt 3 EP (Night And Day / The Speed Of Love / Counter-Clock World / Rubicon)	20.05.2022	BMG

Videos:

1. The Complete Picture - 11/1992, Warner Music Vision, 50 min
2. Inside The Smiths - 28.1.2008, MVD, interview
3. The Queen Is Dead: A Classic Under Review - 26.5.2008

Movies:

1. Reel Around The Fountain (The Smiths Live In '84) (3/2001, 52. min)
2. Inside The Smiths (16.7.2007, documentary, directed by Stephen Petricco)

Bibliography:

Johnny Rogan: Morrissey & Marr - The Severed Alliance (4/1992)
Simon Goddard: Songs That Saved Your Life (11/2002)
Lawrence Watson: The Smiths (12.8.2013, photos)
Johnny Marr: Set The Boy Free (3.11.2016)

Awards:

1984 Melody Maker Album Of The Year No. 2 ("The Smiths")
1987 New Musical Express Readers' Poll

- Best Group
- Album Of The Year ("Strangeways, Here We Come")
- Best All-Time Record ("Queen Is Dead")

1987 Melody Maker Readers' Poll - Best Group
1989 New Musical Express Readers' Poll

- Most Missed Artist
- Best Band Of 80's

1993 New Musical Express Writers No. 10 Album Of All Time ("The Queen Is Dead")
2002 New Musical Express Greatest Single Of All Time #7 ("This Charming Man")
2003 New Musical Express Writers No. 8 Album Of All Time ("The Queen Is Dead")
2012 NME Awards - Best Reissue ("Complete Reissues")

WWW Links:

http://www.askmeaskmeaskme.com

Various:

first gig 4.10.1982, The Ritz, Manchester
disbanded dle New Musical Express 23.8.87

Compilation Appearances:

"London" on OST "Mayor of the Sunset Strip" (18.3.04, Shout! Factory)
"How Soon Is Now?" on compilation "John Peel - A Tribute" (17.10.05)
"There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" on compilation "John Peel - Right Time, Wrong Speed: 1977-1987" (9.10.06)

Johnny Marr:

http://www.ultim.net/~morrissey/marr.htm
http://www.jmarr.com

appeared on the SP:

Bryan Ferry: The Right Stuff
Bryan Ferry: Kiss And Tell (11/87)
Bryan Ferry: Limbo (1988)
Kirsty MacColl: You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby
The Pretenders: Windows Of The World (4/89)
Andrew Berry: Kiss Me I'm Cold (2.9.90, Fontana)
Banderas: This Is Your Life (1/91)
Billy Bragg: Walk Away Renee
Neil Finn: Hole In The Ice (10.09.01)
The The: We Can't Stop What's Coming (22.4.17)
Blitz Vega: Strong Forever (18.11.22)

appeared on the LP:

Billy Bragg: The Taxman About Poetry (1987)
Talking Heads: Naked (1987)
Pet Shop Boys: Behaviour (22.10.90, Parlophone)
Moodswings: Moodfood (25.1.93, Arista)
Beck: Midnight Vultures (16.11.99, Geffen)
Bert Jansch: Crimson Moon (26.6.00)
Neil Finn: 7 Worlds Collide - Live at the St. James (26.2.02, Nettwerk)
Beth Orton: Daybreaker (29.7.02, Heavenly)
Chris Vrenna: 2 a.m. Wakeup Call (20.4.04, Tweaker)
Crowded House: Time On Earth (2.7.07, Parlophone)
John Frusciante: The Empyrean (20.1.09, Record Collection)
Pet Shop Boys: Yes (23.3.09)
Edwyn Collins: Losing Sleep (13.9.10)
Bryan Ferry: Avonmore (17.11.14)
Noel Gallagher & The High Flying Birds: Chasing Yesterday (2.3.15)
Blondie: Pollinator (5.5.17, BMG)
The Charlatans: Different Days (26.5.17)
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds: Who Built The Moon? (24.11.17, Sour Mash)
The Avalanches; We Will Always Love You (11.12.20, Astralwerks)
Noel Gallagher & The High Flying Birds: Council Skies (2.6.23, Sour Mash)

produced by LP:

Haven: Between The Senses (4.2.02, Radiate)
Pet Shop Boys: Release (1.4.02)

Compilation Appearances:

"The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" on compilation "Ruby Tracks The NME's Roaring Forty" (11/92, Forty/NME, & Billy Duffy)

Awards:

2012 Q Awards - Q Hero

Andy Rourke:

appeared on the LP:

Sinead O'Connor: The Lion And The Cobra (6/87, Ensign)
Sinead O'Connor: I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (24.3.90, Ensign)
Daddy: Let Me Get What I Want (2016)

appeared on the SP:

Morrissey: The Last Of The International Playboys (1/89, HMV)
Morrissey: Interesting Drug (4/89, HMV)

Mike Joyce:

appeared on the SP:

Morrissey: The Last Of The International Playboys (1/89, HMV)
Morrissey: Interesting Drug (4/89, HMV)

Craig Gannon:

appeared on the SP:

Morrissey: The Last Of The International Playboys (1/89, HMV)
Morrissey: Interesting Drug (4/89, HMV)

appeared on the LP:

Terry Hall: Home (12.9.94, Anxious)

Press References:

Bang!
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1993	11	24.11.1993	5	Big Bang
1995	4	22.02.1995	5	Big Bang!
Big Beng!
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
2001	19	11.10.2001	274	A léta běží ...	profile, discography
Melodie
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1987	10		12
1988	2		23	Melodie ze světa
1992	8		15
1993	4		29	Recenze	album review
Melody Maker
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1983	22	28.05.1983	13	Singles	single review
1983	33	13.08.1983	14	It's Alive	gig review
1983	36	03.09.1983	26		interview
1983	39	24.09.1983	5	Fast Forward
1983	42	15.10.1983	8		gig review
1983	44	29.10.1983	22	Singles	single review
1983	45	05.11.1983	23	It's Alive	gig review
1983	48	26.11.1983	25		interview
1983	49	03.12.1983	4	Fast Forward - Record News
1983	49	03.12.1983	20	It's Alive	gig review
1984	1	07.01.1984	14	It's Alive	gig review
1984	3	21.01.1984	22	Singles	single review
1984	6	11.02.1984	15	It's Alive!	gig review
1984	8	25.02.1984	24	Albums	album review
1984	9	03.03.1984	24		interview
1984	12	24.03.1984	5	Talk Talk Talk
1984	13	31.03.1984	3	Fast Forward
1984	15	14.04.1984	26	Singles	single review
1984	23	09.06.1984	24	It's Alive	gig review
1984	27	18.08.1984	4	Fast Forward - Record News
1984	28	25.08.1984	23	Singles	single review
1984	31	15.09.1984	3	Fast Forward
1984	34	06.10.1984	20	It's Alive	gig review
1984	36	20.10.1984	3	Fast Forward
1984	38	03.11.1984	24		interview
1992	14	04.04.1992	5	News
1992	19	09.05.1992	9	Reader's Digest
1992	31	01.08.1992	2	News
1992	32	08.08.1992	28	Singles	single review
1992	33	15.08.1992	31	Albums - Retroactive	album review
1992	41	10.10.1992	4	News
1992	42	17.10.1992	31	Singles	single review
1992	45	07.11.1992	2	News
1992	45	07.11.1992	36	Albums - Retroactive	album review
1992	5	30.01.1993	46	Info Freako
1993	7	13.02.1993	2	News
1993	17	24.04.1993	39	Info Freako
1993	46	13.11.1993	5	News
1993	47	20.11.1993	37	Vocal Heroes - Retroactive Special
1995	6	11.02.1995	32	Singles	single review
1995	8	25.02.1995	39	Albums	album review
1996	9	02.03.1996	51	Info Freako
1996	50	14.12.1996	4	News
Mute Magazine
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1990	4		16		profile
Rock & Pop
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1993	3	18.02.1993	29	Recenze	album review
1995	20	10.10.1995	27	Recenze	album review
2006	2		8	Rock & Top - News
2006	4		11	Rozpal to v sobě - News
2009	1		70	Record	album review
2009	3		6	Rock & Top - News
2012	5		10	Rock&Top