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The members of the Smiths in the 2000s. Clockwise from left: Morrissey, Johnny Marr, Mike Joyce, and Andy Rourke. The English rock band the Smiths recorded 74 songs during their five-year career, which included 70 originals and 4 covers.
England Is Mine is a 2017 British biographical drama film, based on the early years of singer Morrissey, before he formed the Smiths in 1982 with Johnny Marr.Originally titled Steven (Morrissey's first name), the title of the film comes from a lyric in the Smiths' song "Still Ill": "England is mine, and it owes me a living."
The next song that they worked on was "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle", which again was based on lyrics produced by Morrissey. Marr based the tempo on the Patti Smith song "Kimberly", and they recorded it on Marr's TEAC four-track cassette recorder. The third track that the duo worked on was "Suffer Little Children". [13]
The song was also covered by Seattle-based alternative rock band The Crying Spell on their debut album Through Hell to Heaven. [75] A new cover version by AG feat. Dresage (The Smiths) popped up in the season 4 trailer for the Netflix-series The Crown, bringing this song back to the spotlight after the success of t.A.T.u.'s version. [76] [77]
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]
The song appears on the soundtrack to 500 Days of Summer (2009); in the film (at first in a scene when Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) met Summer (Zooey Deschanel) in an elevator), it is used to bring the main characters together. [30] It is also played at the end of David Fincher's film The Killer (2023), which features many songs from The Smiths.
The English alternative rock band the Smiths released four studio albums, one live album, 11 compilation albums, three extended plays (EPs), 24 singles, one video album and 13 music videos on the Rough Trade, Sire and WEA record labels.
Rolling Stone ranked the song as the 34th best Smiths song, [9] while NME named it the band's 20th best. [13] Guitar named the song as the band's 17th greatest guitar moment, concluding, "Despite the higher watermarks elsewhere on Strangeways, it's still 'Girlfriend in a Coma' ' s hooky little acoustic earworm that sticks in our grey matter the ...