The Smiths story came to a close shortly after completion of 1987 album Strangeways, Here We Come, and a tense exchange of ...

Being a Smiths fan during the band’s actual lifetime felt like an aesthetic protest vote signaling your alienation from both the ’80s pop mainstream and the political culture it reflected.

allegedly left the Smiths partially because he took issue with the band’s “gay” aesthetic (a charge he denies in his own book Boy Interrupted: Memoir Of A Former Smith). Now that original ...

Armed with the rifle, six Smiths cassette tapes and one Morrissey ... the notably more dour aesthetic of the band, particularly from a lyrics standpoint, would have been as foreign a prospect ...

one of whom allegedly complained about the “gay” aesthetic of their first performance (though he denied he ever said that), before Andy Rourke joined. At the Smiths’ second show, John ...

Like all Smiths songs, all Anderson films are in part about the decay of old-world beauty and tradition and the loss of youth (sic transit gloria!) but Anderson didn’t even bother with metaphor ...