So the 7" single once again...
The importance of The Smiths in the history of modern music and my personal enjoyment of music cannot be underestimated. They were way ahead of everyone else when they released their first singles like Hand In Glove and This Charming Man. Pushing forward "indie" guitar music by looking back at what happened before punk and developing something very new. And that man Morrissey's lyrics were to die for.
William, It Was Really Nothing/Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want (Rough Trade - RT166)
Tracy and I were in a pub one afternoon in 1984, The Royal Oak if memory serves me right, a "towny" pub full of people who weren't really into the same sort of music we were into. Think it might have been a "works do" thing. The music from the jukebox was terrible so we went to have a look to improve matters. Flicking through the records, there was very little that stood out. Until we found this. So we put it on much to the dislike of pretty much everyone else in the place. So we put it on again. And again. And again...spent a small fortune in beer money. Probably played it around 10 times. That's both a-side and b-side. Then we left, with the world we left behind a slightly better place.
PS Damn that sticker mark.
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