An article based on a Virgin Radio interview with Rev. Richard Coles, about his favourite 80s tracks, includes this:
“The 80s for me was about synth-pop really. And then all of a sudden, this guitar band came along, but they were doing all these exciting things with Morrissey’s extraordinary brilliance with language. Johnny's superb playing, Andy’s superb playing too.”
He added: “I just love this one. There's just something so kind of English about Morrissey, this kind of having a jolly old day wandering around the cemeteries thinking about life, thinking about death, in Manchester, there's something just so powerful.”
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The 1986 song - written by Morrissey and Johnny Marr - is lifted from The Queen Is Dead, the band’s third album. “That magical combination of Morrissey and Marr as songwriters, but also Mike [Joyce] and Andy [Rourke] too, I was very, very sad that Andy died recently. Lovely, lovely guy,” Richard said.“The 80s for me was about synth-pop really. And then all of a sudden, this guitar band came along, but they were doing all these exciting things with Morrissey’s extraordinary brilliance with language. Johnny's superb playing, Andy’s superb playing too.”
He added: “I just love this one. There's just something so kind of English about Morrissey, this kind of having a jolly old day wandering around the cemeteries thinking about life, thinking about death, in Manchester, there's something just so powerful.”
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