In 2004 it was updated to include new interview material from Smiths founder and guitarist Johnny Marr.
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Originally planned to mark the 40th anniversary of David Bowie’s July 1973 “retirement” concert at the Hammersmith Odeon, the book’s release ended up coinciding with Bowie’s 2013 comeback album The Next Day and the Victoria and Albert Museum’s record-breaking David Bowie Is exhibition.
In Simon Goddard's track-by-track book Songs That Saved Your Life, Johnny Marr describes the song as "a beautiful piece of music", while the author writes, "Possessing one of his most alluring guitar melodies... if Marr's tune was heaven-sent, then it seemed very nearly blasphemous of Morrissey to christen it 'Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others' and bestow it with its notoriously frivolous lyric".
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