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3 unusual facts about Your Arsenal


Very Best of Morrissey

In promotion of the album, the single "Glamorous Glue" from Your Arsenal was re-issued on CD and 7" vinyl. It charted at #69 in the UK charts, replacing "Hold on to Your Friends" as Morrissey's lowest charting single.

Your Arsenal

It also contains an influence of glam rock, because of the involvement of ex-Bowie guitarist Mick Ronson, and songs like "Certain People I Know", "Glamorous Glue", and "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday", which are respectively influenced by T. Rex, and David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust-period songs like "The Jean Genie", and the last by "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide".

Morrissey had been rehearsing with a new band prior to the release of Your Arsenal, which was the first official album of this new line up, whose core has remained stable to date: ever since this record was released, his music has been chiefly composed by either Alain Whyte or Boz Boorer, two musicians originally coming from the rockabilly scene.


We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful

It was taken from the then-unreleased Your Arsenal album and was the first Morrissey single to be written by Alain Whyte and produced by glam rock legend Mick Ronson.

You're the One for Me, Fatty

It was taken from the then-unreleased Your Arsenal album and was the second Morrissey single to be written by Alain Whyte and produced by glam rock legend Mick Ronson.


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