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Death at One's Elbow

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Oh Glenn, oh Glenn, don't come to the house tonight

Throughout this song, Morrissey keeps returning to themes of death and parting, almost as if he had seen the breakup coming, and dishes out bitter indictments. The title is taken from published diaries of Joe Orton, which, at the time, Morrissey had just finished reading. The quote is from December ‘66, when Orton returned home the night before his mother’s funeral: “As the corpse is downstairs in the main living room. It means going out or watching television with death at one’s elbow.“ Guitarist Johnny Marr defended the track: It was good sometimes to have a track that wasn’t “try… read more
Throughout this song, Morrissey keeps returning to themes of death and parting, almost as if he had seen the breakup coming, and dishes out bitter in… read more
Throughout this song, Morrissey keeps returning to themes of death and parting, almost as if he had seen the breakup coming, and dishes out bitter indictments. The title is taken from pu… read more

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The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982. They comprised the singer Morrissey, the guitarist Johnny Marr, the bassist Andy Rourke and the drummer Mike Joyce. They are regarded as one of the most important acts to emerge from the 1980s British independent music scene. The Smiths signed to the independent label Rough Trade Records in 1983 and released their first album, The Smiths, in 1984. They based their songs on the songwriting partnership of Morrissey and Marr. Their focus on a guitar, bass, and drum sound and a fusion of 1960s rock and post-punk was a re… read more
The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982. They comprised the singer Morrissey, the guitarist Johnny Marr, the bassist Andy Rourke and the drummer Mike Joyce. They a… read more
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