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On February 20, 1984, The Smiths released their acclaimed debut studio album, via Rough Trade Records – featuring classic tracks like 'What Difference Does...
Morrissey, Marr and co's first LP lives in the shadow of The Queen Is Dead, but it's a strong statement of intent.
Songs he is best known for, typically with soaring harmonies, include Eight Miles High, Wooden Ships, Guinevere and Long Time Gone
The Pretenders’ take on The Kinks’ Stop Your Sobbing is far from being the only cover to be praised by the person who wrote the original. But it’s possibly the only one that led to a romantic relationship between people involved in each version. Buried towards the back of their 1964 debut album Kinks, Stop Your Sobbing swapped the feral proto-metal roar of their You Really Got Me for sunny beat-pop. But as with so many great Ray Davies songs, there was an undercurrent of melancholy to it. In his offbeat, semi-fictionalised autobiography X-Ray, Davies s...
Unlike today’s conformist pop stars, he remains utterly true to himself.