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2 unusual facts about Smiths


My Life with Morrissey

The film chronicles the adventures of an off-kilter career girl whose life goes completely berserk after she meets her idol, British rock star Morrissey who, as the former Smiths frontman remains a towering figure in the Britrock pantheon.

Ouija Board, Ouija Board

The music of the B-side "Yes, I Am Blind" was composed by his ex-Smiths' partner Andy Rourke.


100 000 Morrisseys

It uses a sample of the beginning of "This Charming Man" and samples other Smiths songs throughout the track.

A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief

On the afternoon that Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in prison in Carthage, Illinois, the Smiths requested Taylor sing the hymn twice.

Brewing Up with Billy Bragg

These tracks included covers of "Back to the Old House" by The Smiths (with Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr playing guitar) and "The Last Time" by The Rolling Stones.

Camp Madawaska

Soon after World War II, the Smiths sold the camp, along with the telescope, to Garfield Weston, owner of the Canadian company, George Weston Limited.

David Pagel

The Smiths (Seton Smith, Kiki Smith and Tony Smith) by Gilbert Brownstone, Eleanor Heartney and David Pagel

Differential heat treatment

In Japan, from the legendary time of the famous smith Amakuni, hamons were originally straight and parallel to the edge, but by the twelfth century AD, smiths such as Shintogo Kunimitsu began producing hamons with very irregular shapes, which provided both mechanical and decorative benefits.

Eöl

His smithwork rivalled that of the greatest of the Elven-smiths, Fëanor and Celebrimbor, in both fame and fate.

Freak Party

Its members were schoolmates, Johnny Maher (later known as Johnny Marr) on guitar, Andy Rourke on bass, and Simon Wolstencroft, later of The Fall (and briefly a drummer with the Smiths), on drums.

Georgia v. Smith

The Smiths were members of the Brentwood, Tennessee-based Remnant Fellowship Church since they joined in 2000, which grew out of church leader Gwen Shamblin's Weigh Down Workshop, a Christian diet program she created in 1986.

Harry von Zell

Von Zell headlined his own short-lived radio program, The Smiths of Hollywood, which featured Arthur Treacher and Jan Ford (who would later become Howard Hughes' paramour Terry Moore).

Haughton Castle

Significant alterations were carried out for the Smiths between 1816 and 1845, latterly by architect John Dobson to convert the ruin into a substantial mansion.

Hidrogenesse

According to them, their most significant influences are The Smiths and Morrissey, The Associates (the Mac in Eres PC eres Mac stands for their lead singer, Billy Mackenzie), Sparks, The Magnetic Fields, Saint Etienne, Pet Shop Boys and British eccentrics like Lawrence, Jarvis Cocker and Luke Haines.

Instigate Debate

:Reading Panel: Jon McClure, Steve Lamacq (BBC6 presenter), Stephen Street (Blur / Smiths producer), Paul Stokes (News Editor NME) & Nadia Khomami (NME.com competition winner, Host: John O’Sullivan.

Lucy Toulmin Smith

In 1842 the Toulmin Smiths returned to England and settled in Highgate, Middlesex.

Maria Ann Smith

The Smiths lived at Beckley, Sussex for the next nineteen years, during which time Maria bore eight children, three of whom died in infancy.

Simon Goddard

In 2004 it was updated to include new interview material from Smiths founder and guitarist Johnny Marr.

Smith, South Carolina

Smith or Smiths Turnout is an unincorporated community in southern York County, South Carolina south of Rock Hill and northwest of Edgemoor.

Smith's Wood

Derby County forward Jamie Ward is from Smiths Wood and attended Smiths Wood Sports College.

Smiths Falls

It was near Smiths Falls that German soldier Oberleutnant Franz von Werra jumped from a POW train and escaped to the United States, eventually reaching his homeland.

Smiths News

On 20 March 2009, Bertram Books, a book wholesaler, entered administration and on the same day Ernst & Young sold the business to Smiths News for £8,611,622 in a "pre-pack" deal.

Stock im Eisen

In the 18th century, a custom developed that travelling smiths and apprentices would hammer a nail into the tree trunk; in particular, from 1715 on, travelling journeyman locksmiths.

Suedehead

The artwork of the single features a photo taken by Geri Caulfield at a Smiths gig at the London Palladium.

The King Is Dead

The Queen Is Dead, the third studio album by the English alternative rock band The Smiths

The World Won't Listen

After WEA acquired the Smiths' back catalogue in 1992, all Smiths albums were re-released at mid price, including The World Won't Listen, which was expanded to include a cover of "Golden Lights" and the original Rough Trade cassette edition bonus track "Money Changes Everything" (the "Bigmouth Strikes Again" B-side, also later released on the deluxe edition of The Sound of The Smiths).


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