The Smiths: The Queen Is Dead (Indie Exclusive) Vinyl 12" Kranky Records The track that put Joey

The track that put Joey Beltram on the map

Here's what Lee had to say about the creation of the the first "version": "Tubby and myself was talking when Ruddy was cutting some dub but Smithy (engineer) made a mistake and forgot to put in the voice

Joe is an Afro-Pilipino

this is one of the greatest meeting of the minds of this whole SP1200-abusing

The Smiths: The Queen Is Dead (Indie Exclusive) Vinyl 12" Kranky Records The track that put Joey12 pressing of the title track from what is arguably The Smiths best album, released 31 years to the day before this release. The Queen Is Dead appears here for the first time on a single, and is a rare edit which omits the sing along intro (a sample of Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty from 1962 film The L Shaped Room). We dont have much info on the extent to which Morrissey & Marr were involved in this, but it contains all the trappings of a typical