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"William, It Was Really Nothing" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths. It was released as a single in August 1984, featuring the B-sides " Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want " and " How Soon Is Now? ", and reached No. 17 in the UK Singles Chart .
New York City Hudson River Park, Pier 84 [fn 29] 8 August 1986 Washington, D.C. Charles E. Smith Center [fn 29] 11 August 1986 Cleveland: Music Hall, Public Auditorium [fn 29] 12 August 1986 Pittsburgh: Fulton Theater [fn 29] 14 August 1986 Detroit: Fox Theatre [fn 29] 15 August 1986 Chicago Aragon Ballroom [fn 29] 16 August 1986 Milwaukee
The next year saw the release of their self-titled debut album, several non-album singles, and Hatful of Hollow, a collection of B-sides, live recordings, and numerous non-album singles. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The band's popularity increased with Meat Is Murder (1985), their only UK number one studio album, and The Queen Is Dead (1986), which ...
Johnny Marr wrote the music to "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" shortly after its eventual A-side, "William, It Was Really Nothing".Marr commented, "Because that was such a fast, short, upbeat song, I wanted the B-side to be different, so I wrote 'Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want' on Saturday in a different time signature—in a waltz time as a contrast". [5]
During their time together, as well as four studio albums, the Smiths also released three compilation albums (Hatful of Hollow, The World Won't Listen and Louder Than Bombs), while a live album Rank, recorded in 1986, was released in 1988 a year after the band split.
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Rank is the only official live album by English band The Smiths. It was released a year after the band’s breakup, in September 1988, through Rough Trade Records, and reached No. 2 in the British charts. In the United States, the album was released on Sire Records and made No. 77.
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