Smiths songs surely are the sincerest form of flattery. Sister Losing my edge. So apparently I am part of the elite "Cemetary Gates" club. For those with the unreasonably high self esteem. Sister said:. A little B-side that turned out to be one of The Smiths' best songs, you thrash around naughtily and act like sex on wheels. Ambrosia Oh my sacred one The quiz is v. I was pleased to be given 'Cemetary Gates' but they didn't even spell it how The Smiths spelt it, oh well!!
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The Headmaster is bold and bullish: the lyric, on paper, would seem to demand something maudlin, but the strength of the music turns it into a cry of defiance. Mancunian rockabilly seemed to be a genre of its own in the s. The Fall and the Smiths both adopted the rockabilly shuffle and paired it with lyrics that Carl Perkins would have been baffled by. The fixation with death and misery was bound to reach its conclusion at some point, and did so with Asleep, the B-side of The Boy With the Thorn in His Side.
That is not to diminish Asleep: it is a moving and profound piece of work — the emotions of teenagers are no less real or significant for being those of teenagers. The Smiths were as adept as miniaturists as they were as musical landscape artists. The Smiths: 10 of the best. Growing up on the Norris Green council estate in Liverpool, Duggan, who is now 41, was bullied at home and at school — "I was probably just a bit too sensitive and effeminate for my own good" — and he found solace in the Smiths, particularly in their first couple of albums, when he was 14 or Duggan had always wanted to be a writer and within a year of his first encounter with the Smiths he had written a play called William , after "William It Was Really Nothing".
In , when he was 16, it won a competition at the Royal Court's Young Writers' festival and was staged at the theatre theatre. The play's success, which Duggan saw as "the only possible escape route", led to introductions to Morrissey and the band and ultimately to friendship. The first time they met was at London's Brixton Academy in , at what was to be the Smiths' last live performance.
It was very surreal. The play wasn't all good news: when it was performed, the bullying escalated and bricks were thrown through Duggan's window. He was placed under police protection. Throughout, Morrissey would write him letters, encouraging him in his writing. Now Duggan writes mainly for television: his credits include Brookside for which Morrissey shared his enthusiasm, even making a cameo in the spin-off Brookside South mini-series and EastEnders , and he is working with Jimmy McGovern on an episode of Accused for the BBC.
He grows gladioli in his garden as a tribute to the band that has had so much impact on his life. His wife, Julie, a year-old administrator at DHL, agrees. And why wouldn't she? After all, it was their shared passion for the Mancunian band's oeuvre that brought them together. The pair met by chance after attending a Morrissey gig at Leeds town hall on 20 April David got talking to Julie's brother, Glen, at the merchandise stand and they decided to go for a drink at a nearby music bar.
They went out for two years. David proposed while they were on a visit to Keswick in the Lake District, and in they returned there for their Smiths-and-Morrissey-themed wedding.
All the men in attendance wore purple gladioli in the pockets, a huge picture of Oscar Wilde presided over the ceremony, and before Julie entered the room in her cream wedding dress, the intro music Morrissey uses for his live shows whetted the appetite of the guests. The Pynes now live in Wakefield, in a cottage packed with photos of Morrissey and a dedicated music room stuffed with CDs and vinyl. They still marvel at their good fortune.
They might have split 24 years ago, but the Smiths remain as popular as ever, and not just among those who remember them first time around.
Here, Jon Savage and some of their fans explain their enduring appeal. The Smiths. John Savage 'We were all cycling, listening to the Smiths'. Reuse this content.
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