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THE SMITHS
Manchester, GB
*  11/1982+  19.5.19

Line-Up (1987):

SMITHS (photo)
 

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

Former Members:

Craig Gannon (g, 1986)

Albums Discography:

#TitleRelease DateLabelTypeUKUSA
1.The Smiths24.02.1984Rough Trade2 150
2.Hatful Of Hollow02.11.1984Rough Trade7
3.Meat Is Murder2/1985 Rough Trade1 110
4.Louder Than Bombs
(2LP, in the UK 5/1987, Rough Trade)
4/1986 Sire38 62
5.The Queen Is Dead16.06.1986Rough Trade2 70
6.The World Won't Listen2/1987 Rough Trade2
7.The Smiths: Interview
(interview)
5/1987 Baktabak
8.Strangeways, Here We Come28.09.1987Rough Trade2 55
9.Music & Media Interview
(interview)
2/1988 Music & Media
10.Rank05.09.1988Rough Trade2 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 117.08.1992WEA1 139
15.Best Of The Smiths Volume 209.11.1992WEA29
16.Singles20.02.1995WEA5
17.The Very Best Of The Smiths6/2001 WEA30
18.Maximum Morrissey & the Smiths
& Morrissey
14.12.2004Orchard
19.Hang the DJ: The Very Best of the Smiths
(2CD)
07.10.2008Rhino
20.The Sound Of The Smiths
(2CD)
10.11.2008Rhino21 98
21.Singles Box
(12x7" CD box set)
22.12.2008Rhino
22.The Smiths Complete -- Deluxe Collectors Box Set
(8CD box set)
03.10.2011Rhino63
23.30 Years of the Queen Is Dead12.08.2016The Collector's Forum

Johnny Marr:

#TitleRelease DateLabelTypeUKUSA
1.The Messenger
produced by: Johnny Marr
25.02.2013New Voodoo/Warner Bros10 86
2.Playland
produced by: Johnny Marr/James Doviak
06.10.2014New Voodoo/Warner Music9 153
3.Adrenalin Baby09.10.2015New Voodoo/Warner Bros96
4.Call The Comet15.06.2018New Voodoo7
5.Single Life06.12.2019
6.Fever Dreams Pts 1-4
(2CD)
25.02.2022BMG4
7.Spirit Power - The Best Of Johnny Marr11/2023 BMG7

Singles Discography:

#SP/EP TitleRelease DateLabelUKUSA
1.Hand In Glove / Handsome Devil27.05.1983Rough Trade
2.This Charming Man / Wonderful Woman
12" + Accept Yourself / Jeane
28.10.1983Rough Trade22
3.What Difference Does It Make / Back To The Old House
12" + These Things Take Time
20.01.1984Rough Trade7
4.Hand In Glove / I Don't Owe You Anything
12" + Jeane
& Sandie Shaw
16.04.1984Rough Trade21
5.Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now / Suffer Little Children
12" + Girl Afraid
5/1984 Rough Trade4
6.William, It Was Really Nothing / Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
12" + How Soon Is Now
24.08.1984Rough Trade9
7.How Soon Is Now? / Well I Wonder
12" + Oscillate Wildly
1/1985 Rough Trade20
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 Trade23
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 Trade49
11.The Boy With A Thorn In His Side / Asleep
12" + Rubber Ring
9/1985 Rough Trade19
12.Big Mouth Strikes Again / Money Changes Everything
12" + Unloveable
5/1986 Rough Trade17
13.Panic / Vicar In A Tutu
12" + The Draize Train
7/1986 Rough Trade5
14.Ask / Cemetry Gates
12" + Golden Lights
10/1986 Rough Trade8
15.Shoplifters Of The World Unite / Half A Person
12" + London
1/1987 Rough Trade4
16.Sheila Take A Bow / Is It Really So Strange?
12" + Sweet And Tender Hooligan
4/1987 Rough Trade6
17.Girlfriend In A Coma / Work Is A Four-Letter Word
12" + I Keep Mine Hidden
8/1987 Rough Trade10
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 Trade18
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 Trade30
21.Peel Sessions EP (18.5.83)
(What Difference Does It Make? / Reel Around The Fountain / Miserable Lie / Handsome Devil)
10/1988 Strange Fruit90
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 Wait11/1988 Rough Trade
24.This Charming Man / Jean
CD + Wonderful Woman / Accept Yourself
03.08.1992WEA7
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
31.08.1992WEA11
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)
12.10.1992WEA15
27.Ask / Cemetry Games06.02.1995WEA62
28.This Charming Man / Jeane17.11.2008Rhino
29.Hand in Glove / Handsome Devil (Live)
(reissue)
17.11.2008Rhino
30.What Difference Does It Make? / Back To The Old House17.11.2008Rhino
31.How Soon Is Now? / Well I Wonder24.11.2008Rhino
32.Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now / Suffer Little Children01.12.2008Rhino
33.Shakespeare's Sister / What She Said01.12.2008Rhino
34.That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore / Meat Is Murder (Live)01.12.2008Rhino
35.William, It Was Really Nothing / Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want01.12.2008Rhino
36.The Boy With The Thorn In His Side / Asleep15.12.2008Rhino
37.Bigmouth Strikes Again / Money Changes Everything15.12.2008Rhino
38.The Headmaster Ritual / Oscillate Wildly15.05.2009Sire
39.The Boy With The Thorn In His Side / Rubber Ring12/2016 Warner Bros
40.The Queen Is Dead6/2017 Rhino85

Johnny Marr:

#SP/EP TitleRelease DateLabelUKUSA
1.Club Cuts Vol 293
(I'm Every Woman (Tomcat remix) / Candymash / Toxic Rhythm)
& Mike Boerman & Whitney Houston
25.06.2007DMC
2.Upstarts / Psychic Beginners18.02.2013New Voodoo
3.New Town Velocity / The It-Switch18.07.2013Warner Music
4.The Trap9/2014
5.Easy Money / Use Me Up02.10.2014ADA
6.Dynamo / Struck09.02.2015Warner Bros
7.I Feel You / Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want18.04.2015New Voodoo
8.Candidate / Exit Connection29.06.2015New Voodoo
9.The Tracers06.04.2018
10.Hi Hello5/2018
11.If Law Is The Law / Alone On The Rope
& Noel Gallagher
17.08.2018
12.Armatopia22.02.2019
13.The Bright Parade08.08.2019
14.The Divine Chord
& The Avalanches & MGMT
12/2020 Modular
15.Spirit, Power And Soul31.08.2021BMG
16.Fever Dreams Pt 1 EP
(Spirit, Power And Soul / Receiver / All These Days / Ariel)
15.10.2021BMG
17.Fever Dreams Pt 2 EP
(Tenement Time / Sensory Street / Lightning People / Hideaway Girl)
17.12.2021BMG
18.Night And Day10.01.2022BMG
19.Fever Dreams Pt 3 EP
(Night And Day / The Speed Of Love / Counter-Clock World / Rubicon)
20.05.2022BMG

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)
Peter Perrett: The Cleansing (1.11.24)

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!
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
19931124.11.19935Big Bang
1995422.02.19955Big Bang!
Big Beng!
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
20011911.10.2001274A léta běží ...profile, discography
Melodie
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
198710 12
19882 23Melodie ze světa
19928 15
19934 29Recenzealbum review
Melody Maker
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
19832228.05.198313Singlessingle review
19833313.08.198314It's Alivegig review
19833603.09.198326interview
19833924.09.19835Fast Forward
19834215.10.19838gig review
19834429.10.198322Singlessingle review
19834505.11.198323It's Alivegig review
19834826.11.198325interview
19834903.12.19834Fast Forward - Record News
19834903.12.198320It's Alivegig review
1984107.01.198414It's Alivegig review
1984321.01.198422Singlessingle review
1984611.02.198415It's Alive!gig review
1984825.02.198424Albumsalbum review
1984903.03.198424interview
19841224.03.19845Talk Talk Talk
19841331.03.19843Fast Forward
19841514.04.198426Singlessingle review
19842309.06.198424It's Alivegig review
19842718.08.19844Fast Forward - Record News
19842825.08.198423Singlessingle review
19843115.09.19843Fast Forward
19843406.10.198420It's Alivegig review
19843620.10.19843Fast Forward
19843803.11.198424interview
19921404.04.19925News
19921909.05.19929Reader's Digest
19923101.08.19922News
19923208.08.199228Singlessingle review
19923315.08.199231Albums - Retroactivealbum review
19924110.10.19924News
19924217.10.199231Singlessingle review
19924507.11.19922News
19924507.11.199236Albums - Retroactivealbum review
1992530.01.199346Info Freako
1993713.02.19932News
19931724.04.199339Info Freako
19934613.11.19935News
19934720.11.199337Vocal Heroes - Retroactive Special
1995611.02.199532Singlessingle review
1995825.02.199539Albumsalbum review
1996902.03.199651Info Freako
19965014.12.19964News
Mute Magazine
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
19904 16profile
Rock & Pop
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
1993318.02.199329Recenzealbum review
19952010.10.199527Recenzealbum review
20062 8Rock & Top - News
20064 11Rozpal to v sobě - News
20091 70Recordalbum review
20093 6Rock & Top - News
20125 10Rock&Top