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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]
"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.
The song was used for a Virgin Media television commercial. "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" was released as the album's second single on 11 November 2011. It peaked at number 31 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was selected as the soundtrack to the John Lewis 2011 Christmas advertisement.
Johnny Marr – guitars, piano, harmonica, slide guitar on "Panic", [11] mandolin on "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want" and "Golden Lights", Andy Rourke – bass guitar, cello on "Shakespeare's Sister" and "Oscillate Wildly" Mike Joyce – drums, tambourine on "Hand in Glove" [12] and "Stretch Out and Wait" [13]
Former The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr has reacted with disbelief to footage of the band’s 1984 song “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want” being played at a Donald Trump rally.. On ...
Gilmour would go on to produce and/or play on two of their albums and co-write one Dream Academy song, "Twelve-Eight Angel". [9] The band's first single, "Life in a Northern Town" (1985), was a worldwide success and sizeable hit in the U.S., charting at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, from an album co-produced by Gilmour. [1]
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"Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" / "In Places on the Run" Released: 26 November 1985 ... Also of note is the song "The Edge of Forever", ...