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4 unusual facts about The Queen Is Dead


Ordsall, Greater Manchester

Ordsall is home to Salford Lads Club, which is featured on the inside cover of the album The Queen Is Dead by the pop band the Smiths.

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

The runout groove on the B-side of vinyl copies of The Smiths' 1986 album The Queen Is Dead feature the line "Them was rotten days" said by Aunt Ada (Hylda Baker) in the film.

The King Is Dead

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

The Smiths Is Dead

It was compiled by the French cultural magazine Les Inrockuptibles and released to celebrate the 10th anniversary of 1986's The Queen Is Dead.


The L-Shaped Room

The Smiths chose to open their 1986 album, The Queen Is Dead, with a sound sample from this film – taken from the scene at the house in London during the Christmas season, in which Mavis leads her fellow Brits through an off-key chorus of "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty".


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Richard Heslop

Two years later he directed his first music video The Queen is Dead by The Smiths and modelled in a Paris fashion show for Yohji Yamamoto and travelled to India to make documentary about the "Kumba Mela."