Salford Lads Club, a local tribute band to The Smiths and Morrissey, will croon its last tune. We caught up with Marc Solheim ...

The Smiths were my band. The sound of that guitar intro was incredible. The lyrics are fuckin’ amazing, too. “I would go out tonight but I haven’t got a stitch to wear.” Genius.

He also sometimes quotes the names of French actors in his lyrics, such as Claude Brasseur ... "Meat Is Murder", the title track of the Smiths' second album in 1985, was already an unmistakable ...

“The Smiths were out there on their own,” Paul Weller tells Uncut. “I thought they were similar to The Jam, really. It wasn’t a party line thing, and the lyrics weren’t always overly ...