Dead Straight Guide to The Smiths

Dead Straight Music Guides

by Mick O'Shea

NME named the Smiths the “most influential artist ever” in a 2002 poll. In 2003, four of the band’s albums appeared on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982. The band consisted of vocalist Morrissey, guitarist Johnny Marr, bassist Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce. Critics have called them one of the most important bands to emerge from the British independent music scene of the Eighties Based on the songwriting partnership of Morrissey and Marr, the group signed to the independent record label Rough Trade Records, on which they released four studio The Smiths (1984), Meat Is Murder (1985), The Queen Is Dead (1986) and Strangeways, Here We Come (1987). They also released several compilations, and numerous non-album singles..

288 pages, Paperback

Published March 2, 2021

Reviews

[Daisy King · Rating 5 out of 5]

SO INFORMATIONAL!!! SO MUCH WRITING! Has a complete backstory on The Smiths, a complete discography of not only The Smiths, but of each of the members, the author's personal rating of their songs, dates of all the gigs, and full colour photographs, plus a little piece from the photographer himself!!! 10/10, EXTREMELY worth your money!!!

[Joel · Rating 4 out of 5]

I never was a fan of the Smith's, (and still some of the tunes just popped into ones conscious while reading) yet band biographies are always fascinating and this one is up there with them.