The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead (Vinyl LP)

Description

*This is a Vinyl LP*

Release Date:  2012

Label:  Warner Music UK

180 gram gatefold sleeve and original inner sleeve.

 

Track List

Side A

1. The Queen Is Dead (Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty)
2. Frankly, Mr. Shankly
3. I Know It’s Over
4. Never Had No One Ever
5. Cemetry Gates

Side B

1. Bigmouth Strikes Again
2. The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
3. Vicar In A Tutu
4. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
5. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others

 

Notes

Vinyl LP pressing. 1986 album from the legendary British quartet. The Queen Is Dead is The Smiths’ great leap forward, taking the band to new musical and lyrical heights. Opening with the storming track, the album is harder rocking record than anything the band had attempted before. Johnny Marr has created here a wide range of guitar styles that provide a musical bed for Morrissey’s best set of lyrics. From which is crafted some of their finest, most affective songs, particularly “The Boy with the Thorn in His Side” and the epic “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out,” two masterpieces that provide the foundation for a remarkable album.

Bass Guitar – Andy Rourke
Drums – Mike Joyce
Engineer – Stephen Street
Guitar, Music By, – Johnny Marr
Cover Star – Alain Delon
Producer – Marr, Morrissey
Sleeve – Morrissey
Voice, Words By – Morrissey

Recorded in England, Winter 1985

“take me back to dear old blighty”