Bigmouth strikes again
Release date: 1986, May
UK Chart: 26
Cover star: James Dean, this photograph was taken in 1948 by his friend Nelva Jean Thomas in his hometown Fairmount, Indiana. Dean is riding his first motorcycle, a Czech Whizzer.
Etchings on the single’s matrix: A- BE AWARE THE WRATH TO COME / B- TALENT BORROWS, GENIUS STEALS
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Bigmouth strikes a. - The Smiths, 1986, May
Bigmouth strikes again
Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking
When I said I’d like to smash every tooth
In your head
Oh … sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking
When I said by rights you should be
Bludgeoned in your bed
And now I know how Joan of Arc felt
Now I know how Joan of Arc felt, oh
As the flames rose to her roman nose
And her Walkman started to melt
Oh …
Bigmouth, la … bigmouth, la …
Bigmouth strikes again
I’ve got no right to take my place
In the Human race
Oh, bigmouth, ha ha … bigmouth, la
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The Queen is dead
Release date: 1986, June
UK Chart: 2
Cover star: French actor Alain Delon. The picture is a still from the movie L’Insoumis, directed by Alain Cavalier in 1964. After The Smiths had broke up, Morrissey told that he’d thrown away all personal memorabilia connected with the group with the exception of a letter from Delon about this particular album sleeve.
Etchings on the single’s matrix: 1- FEAR OF MANCHESTER / 2- THEM WAS ROTTEN DAYS
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The queen is dead - The Smiths, 1986, June
The Queen is dead
1. The Queen Is Dead
2. Frankly, Mr. Shankly
3. I Know It’s Over
4. Never Had No One Ever
5. Cemetry Gates
6. Bigmouth Strikes Again
7. The Boy with the Thorn in His Side
8. Vicar in a Tutu
9. There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
10. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
Panic
Release date: 1986, July
UK Chart: 11
Cover star: Richard Bradford, Texas-born actor, star of the 1967 British series The Man in a Suitcase. The actor said he liked being on the cover because he was informed The Smiths were a good band but he never heard any of them. He was expecting to received a copy of the single but the record company sent hom the single without vinyl inside.
Etchings on the single’s matrix: B- I DREAMT ABOUT STEW LAST NIGHT
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Panic - The Smiths poster, 1986, July
Panic
Panic on the streets of London
Panic on the streets of Birmingham
I wonder to myself
Could life ever be sane again ?
The Leeds side-streets that you slip down
I wonder to myself
Hopes may rise on the Grasmere
But Honey Pie, you’re not safe here
So you run down
To the safety of the town
But there’s Panic on the streets of Carlisle
Dublin, Dundee, Humberside
I wonder to myself
Burn down the disco
Hang the blessed DJ
Because the music that they constantly play
IT SAYS NOTHING TO ME ABOUT MY LIFE
Hang the blessed DJ
Because the music they constantly play
Panic B- The Smiths poster, 1986, July
On the Leeds side-streets that you slip down
Provincial towns you jog ’round
Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ
Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ
HANG THE DJ
Ask
Uk Chart: 14
Cover star: Yootha Joyce, english actor. The picture is a still from Catch us if you can, a 1965 movie directed by John Boorman.
Etchings on the single’s matrix: A- ARE YOU LOATHESOME TONIGHT? / B- TOMB IT MAY CONCERN
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Ask - The Smiths - 1986, Oct
Ask
Shyness is nice and
Shyness can stop you
From doing all the things in life
You’d like to
Shyness is nice and
Shyness can stop you
From doing all the things in life
You’d like to
So, if there’s something you’d like to try
If there’s something you’d like to try
Ask me I wont say no, how could I?
Coyness is nice, and
Coyness can stop you
From saying all the things in
Life you’d like to
So, if there’s something you’d like to try
If there’s something you’d like to try
Ask me I wont say no, how could I?
Spending warm Summer days indoors
Writing frightening verse
To a buxom girl in Luxembourg
Ask me, ask me, ask me
Ask me, ask me, ask me
Because if it’s not Love
Then it’s the bomb, the bomb, the bomb,
the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb
That will bring us together
Nature is a language – can’t you read ?
Nature is a language – can’t you read ?
So, ask me, ask me, ask me,
Ask me, ask me, ask me
Because if it’s not Love
Then it’s the bomb, the bomb, the bomb,
the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb
That will bring us together
If it’s not Love
Then it’s the bomb
Then it’s the bomb
That will bring us together
So, ask me, ask me, ask me,
Ask me, ask me, ask me
Oh, la…