the single revealed that the only person with more to say against Elizabeth than snot-nosed singer and lyricist Johnny Rotten was the sleeve’s cover artist, Jamie Reid, who defaced the Queen’s ...

you should hear me play the piano'") "The Queen is Dead" by The Smiths pokes fun at Elizabeth. The 1986 track views the monarch as the figurehead of a dissolute empire. McEwan said this wave of ...

29. Well I Wonder (from Meat Is Murder, 1985) For when There Is A Light… is too life affirming, Meat Is Murder’s rain-sodden weepy is The Smiths at their most lovelorn. 28. Some Girls Are Bigger Than ...

They signed with Rough Trade Records in 1983 and their first album, “The Smiths,” was released in 1984. Hit albums include” Meat Is Murder” (1985), “The Queen Is Dead” (1986 ...

Madonna, The Beatles, Sex Pistols and more. By Joe Lynch Executive Digital Director When Queen Elizabeth II died at age 96 on Thursday (Sept. 8), she left behind a substantial legacy in terms of ...