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The Smiths

January 2024

  • a side-by-side image of Morrissey, Donald Trump, and Johnny Marr

    ‘Please let me get what I want’: can artists stop politicians from using their songs?

  • A Night With The Johnny Marr Orchestra At Factory International<br>MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 07: Johnny Marr performs during A Night With The Johnny Marr Orchestra at Factory International on December 07, 2023 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Matthew McNulty/Redferns)

    Johnny Marr blasts Donald Trump for playing the Smiths song at rally

November 2023

  • Part of the cover of Led Zeppelin IV, showing the man whom a historian has identified as Lot Long, a Victorian thatcher from Wiltshire.

    Musical mysteries: the unlikely album cover stars who became modern pop enigmas

    As the old man on Led Zeppelin’s fourth album artwork is identified, we take a look at albums that are as famous for the faces on their sleeves as their music

October 2023

  • Johnny Marr with his sherwood green signature Fender Jaguar in London in 2015.

    ‘They came with Smiths songs in them’: Johnny Marr on his favourite guitars – in pictures

  • Each one tells a story … Johnny Marr in his studio with a small fraction of his guitar collection.

    ‘Mind-boggling’: Johnny Marr on his 53 favourite guitars – and the one Noel Gallagher smashed

September 2023

  • Salty Brine in Bigmouth Strikes Again-The Smiths Show @ Soho Downstairs. (Opening 04-09-2023) ©Tristram Kenton 09-23 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Salty Brine: Bigmouth Strikes Again review – a self-made monster hit

    The Smiths’ songs are transplanted on to the gothic horror of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – and it works

June 2023

  • Rick Astley playing with Blossoms at Glastonbury festival.

    Blossoms and Rick Astley at Glastonbury review – Smiths hits are the very opposite of miserable now

  • The Smiths in 1987.

    A light that never goes out: why the Smiths are eternally influential

31 May 2023

  • Morrissey and Johnny Marr of the Smiths in 1984.

    ‘An astounding rush of real-time creativity’: 40 years of the Smiths’ Peel Sessions

    Not everyone finds it easy to listen to the Smiths now, but those early transmissions were utterly formative for this vital new band and their enraptured fans

19 May 2023

  • The Smiths performing live on the Channel 4 TV show The Tube in 1984: from left, Andy Rourke, Mike Joyce on drums, Morrissey and Johnny Marr.

    Andy Rourke obituary

  • Alexis Petridis

    Andy Rourke was the other melodic genius in the Smiths: spry, funky and masterful

    Alexis Petridis
  • Andy Rourke

    Andy Rourke of the Smiths: his life in pictures

  • Andy Rourke pictured in New York in 2013.

    Andy Rourke, bassist for the Smiths, dies aged 59

April 2023

  • Poet laureate Simon Armitage at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

    ‘I’m a CBE, I’m poet laureate so I’m clearly not a republican am I?’: Simon Armitage on his radical roots and rock star dreams

  • Seymour Stein, CEO and founder of Sire Records, is seen during an interview at a hotel in Hong Kong, 30 May 2007. Stein in is Hong Kong to attend the Music Matters forum here. AFP PHOTO / Antony DICKSON (Photo credit should read ANTONY DICKSON/AFP via Getty Images)

    Seymour Stein obituary

October 2022

  • Iestyn Davies in Handel’s Messiah at the Coliseum, London, staged by English National Opera.

    How low can you go? Singer Iestyn Davies’s melancholic playlist

    What connects a tea towel, a double-decker bus and a facial? The countertenor picks his 10 favourite tracks that distil the beauty of tears, pull at the heart strings and suspend time
  • L-R: Sheridan Riley, Abbey Blackwell, Molly Rankin, Alec O’Hanley, Kerri MacLellan

    Alvvays’ Molly Rankin: ‘We drive people crazy with the things that we want’

    After a five year wait, the Canadian indie-rock band have returned with Blue Rev, one of the best records of the year. Their lead singer and guitarist reflects on perfectionism, Morrissey fandom and creating a sound that’s ‘strange and familiar’
  • ‘Her first appearance takes some beating’ … Amy Winehouse.

    Ranked
    The 100 greatest BBC music performances – ranked!

    As the Beeb celebrates its centenary, we take a look at its most memorable pop moments, from the birth of grime to the first sightings of Bob Dylan and Bob Marley, plus TOTP goes Madchester and countless classic Peel sessions

June 2022

  • Hitch a ride on the jubilee … a poster for the Sex Pistols’ 1977 single God Save the Queen.

    ‘The Queen’s gone round the bend!’ – HM in pop, from Slowthai to the Smiths to Blur

    She’s been called a fascist, a parasite and a pretty nice girl who doesn’t have a lot to say. So are all pop songs about the monarch treasonous? And are they really directed at her?

February 2022

  • Johnny Marr

    You ask the questions
    Johnny Marr: ‘When I play Smiths songs I experience this huge wave of elation’

    On the eve of his new double album, the acclaimed songwriter takes questions from musicians, politicians and readers
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