The discography of the Smiths

Title

Hand in glove (1983)

Type of release

Single

Album

Single

Compilation album

Single

Album

Single

Album

Single

Compilation album

Single

Album

Single

Live album

Compilation album

See above

Single

Compilation album

Single

Compilation album

Person/character depicted on the cover

George O'Mara

Title role (Jean Marais)

Freddie Clegg (Terence Stamp)

Joe (Joe Dallesandro)

Josephine (Rita Tushingham)

Viv Nicholson (3.4.1936-)

Unknown

Fabrice Colette

See Hand in glove

Frankie (Sean Barrett)

Marine Cpl. Michael Wynn

Pat Phoenix (26.11.1923-17.9.1986)

Viv Nicholson

Gus Morton (Robert Duncan)

Unknown

Truman Capote (30.9.1924-25.8.1984)

James Dean

Thomas Vlassenroot (Alain Delon)

Richard Bradford (10.11.1937)

An unnamed character (Yootha Joyce)

See above

Elvis Presley (8.1.1935-16.8.1977)

Sandie Shaw

Unknown

Shelagh Delaney (25.11.1938-20.11.2011)

Candy (Candy Darling)

Shelagh Delaney

Aron Trask (Richard Davalos)

Liz Piper (Avril Angers)

Geoffrey Fitton (Murray Head)

Billy Fury (17.4.1940-28.1.1983)

Alexandra Bastedo (9.3.1946-12.1.2014)

List of musicians who recorded with John Peel (30.8.1939-25.10.2004)

Unknown

See above

Unknown

Mary Price Hilton (Diane Dors)

Cornelius Carr (9.4.1969-)

Charles Hawtrey (30.11.1914-27.10.1988)

The band

Stewart Sullivan (Joel Fabiani)

Unknown

Source of photograph

A photograph that was taken by Jim French (14.7.1932-) for Margaret Walters' book Nude Male, The (1978)

Orpheus (1949)

Collector, The (1965)

Flesh (1968)

A taste of honey (1961)

Her autobiography Spend spend spend (1977)

An advertisment for ADS speakers

A photograph that was taken by Gilles Decroix for a July 1983 issue of Liberation

See Hand in glove

Dunkirk (1958)

In the year of the pig (1968)

Unknown

Spend spend spend

Uncle, The (1965)

Enchanted Desna (1964)

A photograph that was taken by Cecil Beaton (14.1.1904-18.1.1980)

A photograph that was taken by Nelva Jean Thomas

Unvanquished, The (1964)

Unknown

Catch us if you can (1965)

See above

A photograph that was taken by James R. Reid

Unknown

Rock 'N' Roll Times (1983) by Jurgen Vollmer

An issue of the Saturday Evening Post dated 21.10.1961

Women in revolt (1972)

A 1961 programme of A taste of honey

East Of Eden (1955)

Family Way, The (1966)

See above

Unknown

Birds Of Britain by John D. Green

Unknown

A photograph that was taken by Dennis Hopper

See above

Unknown

Yield to the night (1956)

The music video to Morrissey's Boxers

Unknown

Photographs that were taken by Tom Sheehan

Department S (9.3.1969-4.3.1970)

Rock 'N' Roll Times by Jurgen Vollmer

Etching

KISS MY SHADES/KISS MY SHADES TOO

SLAP ME ON THE PATIO (7")

WILL NATURE MAKE A MAN OF ME YET (12")

KISS MY SHADES/JM

SMITHS INDEED/ILL FOREVER (7")

SMITHS PRESUMABLY/FOREVER ILL (12")

THE IMPOTENCE OF ERNEST

ROMANTIC AND SQUARE IS HIP AND AWARE (some editions)

WE HATES BAD GRAMMER (some editions)

THE IMPOTENCE OF ERNEST/IAN

I WILL TAKE IT NOW

THE TATTY TRUTH/TIM TOM

ILLNESS AS ART/DOING THE WYTHENSHAWE WALTZ (UK)

HOLLAND CUTTING (Holland)

HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS (UK)

HOLLAND CUTTING (Holland)

THESE ARE THE GOOD TIMES

OUR SOULS OUR SOULS OUR SOULS (UK)

HELEN WHEELS (Canada)

ARTY BLOODY FARTY/"IS THAT CLEVER"...JM

BEWARE THE WRATH TO COME/TALENT BORROWS GENIUS STEALS

FEAR OF MANCHESTER/THEM WAS ROTTEN DAYS

I DREAMT ABOUT STEW LAST NIGHT (UK)

HANG THEM HIGH MONIKA (Germany)

ARE YOU LOATHSOME TONIGHT?/TOMB IT MAY CONCERN (UK)

NATUR FEEDS THE ZENSOR GROUP (Germany)

ROCK AND ROLLING TO THE TOP/A PRECISE DIAMOND CUT (7")

NO GIRL LIKE JAGUAR ROSE/BUSY TRAIN TO THE LOKOMOTION (12")

ALF RAMSEY'S REVENGE

COOK BERNARD MATTHEWS

AND NEVER MORE SHALL BE SO/SO FAR SO BAD (7")

EVERYBODY IS A FLASHER AT HEART/AND NEVER MORE SHALL BE SO (12")

GUY FAWKES WAS A GENIUS

"MURDER AT THE WOOL HALL"(X)STARRING SHERIDAN WHITESIDE/YOU ARE BELIEVING. YOU DO NOT WANT TO SLEEP.

"THE RETURN OF THE SUBMISSIVE SOCIETY"(X)STARRING SHERIDAN WHITESIDE/"THE BIZARRE ORIENTAL VIBRATING PALM DEATH"(X)STARRING SHERIDAN WHITESIDE

PEEPHOLISM

Notes

The etchings are just lyrics from the song.

The etching on the 7" is a lyric from the unreleased Reel around the mountain whereas the etching on the 12" is a lyric from this song.

When Terence Stamp (22.7.1938-) refused the offer to use the photograph, said photograph was replicated with Morrissey (22.5.1959-) replacing Terence (holding a glass of milk rather than a chloroform pad). Afterwords, Sandie Shaw (26.2.1947-) persuaded Terence to give the band the still and Morrissey went on record as saying "I did not want to be on the cover. It was the ugliest picture I had ever set an eye upon."

As well as being a reference to Importance of being earnest, The, that etching is an allusion to the impotence that Ernest Hemingway suffered in his final years. The "romantic" line was said by John Lennon to Hunter Davies (7.1.1936-). "We hates bad grammer" could be a reference to how Gollum speaks. The 1987 re-release had Lottie Bubbles (Billie Whitelaw) from Charlie Bubbles (1967) on the cover whereas the 1988 re-release had Reggie (Colin Campbell) from Leather Boys, The (1964) on the cover

"Ian" is the name of a brother of Johnny Marr.

When Americans thought Sean Barrett (4.5.1940-) was masturbating, a photo of the band that was taken backstage at Glastonbury 1984 was used. The 1992 re-release had Jane (Vanessa Redgrave) and Thomas (David Hemmings) from Blowup (1966) on the cover.

The graffiti on the helmet originally said "Make war not love". Wythenshawe is the area of Manchester where Johnny Marr grew up.

The 1988 re-release had Viv on the cover.

For the 7", the "our souls" chant was etched on both sides. Taken from a 1965 issue of a specalist movie magazine, the photograph originally featured the child's on-screen mother. Morrissey said that "the eyes were encrusted with hurt and premature wisdom." The original cover had a picture of a dead chicken.

The etching on the B side is a lyric from the song on the B side, Rubber Ring.

The etching on the a side was taken from a banner in the movie Hobson's Choice (1954) whereas the etching on the b side is a quote from Oscar Wilde (16.10.1854-30.11.1900).

The etching on the B side is a quote from Saturday night and Sunday morning (1960)

The British etching is a pun on a lyric from Reel around the mountain ("I dreamt about you last night").

The cover depicts Nan (Yootha Joyce) from Catch us if you can (1965). As this image was used for the German exclusive single, Some girls are bigger than others, the image of Reggie from Leather Boys, The that was used for the 1988 re-release of William, it was really nothing was chosen. The Australian cover was obviously not designed by Morrissey as it would not have featured him otherwise. The photograph on the Australian cover is credited to Pat Bellis. The etching on the British a side is a pun on Elvis Presley's Are you lonesome tonight?

Alf Ramsey (22.1.1920-28.4.1999) was a football manager.

Bernard Matthews (24.1.1930-25.11.2010) was a poultry chef. This etching stems from Morrissey's passion for animal rights.

Cal Trask (James Dean) was cropped from the image. Originally, an image of JR (Harvey Keitel) from Who is that knocking at my door (1967) was going to be used but Harvey refused to give the band the rights. 4 years later, Harvery changed his mind and the image was used for T-shirts and stage backdrops for the solo tour Morrissey took that year.

The Wool Hall is a recording studio in Bath that was not only used to record Strangeways here we come but Morrissey's then-new solo album Viva hate as well. One of Morrissey's pseudonyms, Sheridan Whiteside is the title role in Man who came to dinner, The. The etching on the b side is a pun on a lyric from Rubber ring ("You are sleeping. You do not want to believe.")

The American and Canadian covers featured Aron Trask.

This was properly the 1st cover that Morrissey was not involved with (even though he wrote an obituary to Charles in NME when he died). Mojo said it was "an adman's approximation of a Smiths cover".