"I travelled to a mystical time zone,
But I missed my bed,
And I soon came home."
Is the Summer
over? Can I come out of hibernation now? What did I miss?
So… we were
talking about The Smiths. "Oh no, Michael. Let’s move on to something else." Ah, but we can’t. We need
to wallow in the 25th anniversary of "Strangeways…" and The Smiths splitting. The
news that Johnny Marr had left the group had broken in the NME a month back. It
almost ruined my week on holiday in Swanage with my grandparents and cousins. Above the Mary Chain on the cover was a big ‘Why I Quit’
headline. Oh, here it is…
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| My copy of this is in the loft somewhere, so thank you vinylonthe.net. |
Come on, you
know you’ve missed these stupidly detailed musings. Heartbroken by the seaside,
there was at least one final studio album on the way. Though the cloying absurdity
of their current single ‘Girlfriend In A Coma’ didn’t bode well.
Morrissey has
often claimed ‘Strangeways…’ is his favourite album. Marr too. I can’t agree as
‘The Queen Is Dead’ remains their glistening pinnacle for me. But they bowed
out in their own inimitable style with some wonderfully intuitive paeans to the
loveless, witless and, er, spleenless. And no-one rolls an ‘r’ quite like
Morrissey.
Let’s hope
they never reunite.
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