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The majority of the Smiths' songs were written by the songwriting partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr. [1] Throughout their career, their songs differed from the predominant synth-pop British sound of the early 1980s, [2] instead fusing together 1960s rock and post-punk. [9]
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 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.
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]
The song is about the Moors murders that took place on Saddleworth Moor, which overlooks Manchester, between 1963 and 1965. [1] At the time of their deaths, many of the victims were only a few years older than Morrissey (born 1959), who wrote the lyrics of the song after reading a book about the murders, Beyond Belief: A Chronicle of Murder and its Detection by Emlyn Williams.
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Strangeways, Here We Come is the fourth and final studio album by the English rock band the Smiths. It was released on 28 September 1987 by Rough Trade Records, several months after the group disbanded. All of the songs were composed by Johnny Marr, with lyrics written and sung by Morrissey.
The World Won't Listen is a compilation album by English rock band the Smiths, released on 23 February 1987 by Rough Trade Records.The album is the second of three compilation albums—the others being Hatful of Hollow and Louder Than Bombs—released by the Smiths while they were still an active band. [6]