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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.
"Asleep" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths. It was released as a B-side to the single " The Boy with the Thorn in His Side " in September 1985, reaching No. 23 in the UK Singles Chart . It appears on the compilation albums The World Won't Listen and Louder Than Bombs , and on the deluxe edition of The Queen Is Dead in 2017.
English singer-songwriter Emma Blackery covered the song for her second studio album, Girl in a Box. The lyrics to the song stayed the same; speaking on X, Emma said she first heard the cover by t.A.T.u in 2002 and she loves the line “I am human and I need to be loved just like everybody else does” and spoke about how it takes on another ...
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". [9]
Morrissey provided the lyrics for "Don't Blow Your Own Horn", the first song that they worked on; however, they decided against retaining the song, with Marr commenting that "neither of us liked it very much". [11] The next song that they worked on was "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle", which again was based on lyrics produced by Morrissey.
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The song was first released on the group's 1987 album Strangeways, Here We Come. Marr's music features a larger sound, courtesy of a 12-string Gibson ES-335, and one of his few guitar solos with the Smiths. Morrissey's lyrics allude to alcohol and deception.
Complete is a box set compilation by English rock band the Smiths, released by Rhino Records on 26 September 2011. The standard CD and LP versions contain the band's four studio albums The Smiths (with "This Charming Man" added as per the original US release), Meat Is Murder, The Queen Is Dead and Strangeways, Here We Come, their only live album Rank and the three compilation albums released ...