TheSmiths_1985
Hello, honky tonks 💋
Anyone have any high-quality/resolution images of the Tench St/Reardon St b&w photos that I could get blown up to make posters?
Anyone have any high-quality/resolution images of the Tench St/Reardon St b&w photos that I could get blown up to make posters?
Anyone have any high-quality/resolution images of the Tench St/Reardon St b&w photos that I could get blown up to make posters?
The following are scans that í took & touched up a tad, from original His Master's Voice / EMI 8x10 promotional photographs ~
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If you want the full-size scans {5K & 4K} of these images click on the link below {m-s only allows me to post a certain size} ~
https://flic.kr/s/aHsmUPyGaa
The album contains those two Wapping whoppers, plus an additional two Battersea big ones, just cos í love them so ~
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Again, sourced from original record company promo 8x10s.
And, for good measure, these tiny Teller gems, grabbed from the "Arena Homme+" 'Memphis Morrissey' edition of 2015 ~
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Just to give further illustration of the greatness of The Quiff on that sunny May day in far-off London town...
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Thank you
Amazing - thank you!The following are scans that í took & touched up a tad, from original His Master's Voice / EMI 8x10 promotional photographs ~
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If you want the full-size scans {5K & 4K} of these images click on the link below {m-s only allows me to post a certain size} ~
https://flic.kr/s/aHsmUPyGaa
The album contains those two Wapping whoppers, plus an additional two Battersea big ones, just cos í love them so ~
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Again, sourced from original record company promo 8x10s.
And, for good measure, these tiny Teller gems, grabbed from the "Arena Homme+" 'Memphis Morrissey' edition of 2015 ~
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Just to give further illustration of the greatness of The Quiff on that sunny May day in far-off London town...
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Amazing - thank you!
Mentally I'm still here...
Did you see me in a muslin shroud?
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1985 - Iain McKell
That middle one !!!!
Has the wurrrld changed or have I changed?
í find each of these interviews, alone, captivating in the extreme.
But watched together, back-to-back, they are, to purloin a phrase, mesmerising.
1987
2006
But that's me for you really...?
ps ~ í can have both
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They won’t be anything special, just something to fill a space on the wall in the spare room.Let us know how you go with your printing endeavours. í would be immoderately interested in buying one, or two, when you do
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More Catlin captures; confirming immaculate perfection of The Hair.
One of these profiles would appear to be reversed? í shall leave it for wiser eyes than í to work out which...
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It's the first one.
Some of these were originally printed in the 16 March 1985 issue of Melody Maker on occasion of a Trial by Jury aka a collective interview by a number of fanzine writers (among them one ... Dave ... Has-been...? No, sorry. It's Haslam, actually.), which had been proposed by Morrissey because after merely two years in the spotlight he was already tired of speaking to the music press or as he called it, he'd "virtually exhausted the conventional format of pop rag interviews", bless his heart.
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A couple of shots were later used/reprinted in Uncut specials, that's were the reversed image probably comes from. I have a few more colour pictures of him hiding under the stairs, but he really looks like a ailing prawn in those...
Jed Mercurio (who is notoriously rude irl) slagged off a Guardian hack, a whole bunch of Guardian hacks falsely tweeted he was being sexist but piously claimed they'd fairly review Line Of Duty anyway - then The Guardian did a hit piece on it.
The art-hack ecosystem is so petty.
I'm currently trying to work out what the drama was in this picture. Where did you last see the keys?:
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They were fighting over who had seen the Japanese first pressing of Get It On first....
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Boz had some pretty good arguments why he should be the one to keep it...
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But then Moz threatened to get his hands on Boz's mammary glands and that was the end of the matter.
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They lived happily ever after until Moz made Boz wear pretty dresses on stage
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