"Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty", a sound bite from the 1962 British film, The L Shaped Room, starts off the title track from this classic, and arguably best album by the Smiths, The Queen Is Dead .

Yesterday the Smiths teased something to do with 1986’s The Queen Is Dead on Facebook, posting a black and white photo of several young men carrying a coffin with the caption “TQID 16.06.17.” ...

The Smiths have released two vinyl reissues of seminal track The Queen Is Dead to mark the 31st anniversary of the album of the same name. The single is available as a picture disk in both 7 inch ...

Echo and the Bunnymen’s Ocean Rain – but the bellwether may have been the Smiths‘ The Queen is Dead, now marking its 30th anniversary. The Smiths, known for singer Morrissey‘s flights of ...

“I like to feel that whatever assessments people make of the Smiths, the Smiths speak absolutely ... recently decided to give The Queen Is Dead the deluxe reissue treatment it so richly deserves.

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the Smiths’ The Queen Is Dead, we’ve republished this piece here. How about those Smiths, huh? Their last album, Meat Is Murder, debuted at Numero Uno on ...

Happy twenty-fifth anniversary to The Queen Is Dead, released on June 16, 1986. Everybody agrees this is the Smiths‘ best album, except, bizarrely, the Smiths, all four of whom seem to prefer ...

There are two ways to look at The Queen Is Dead, which turns 30 years old today. On one hand, it's an exceptional record from the Smiths with a few clunkers — making those who regard it as the ...

“It’s an absolute political slice of fascism to gag the Smiths.” A month after the release of The Queen Is Dead, the quartet threw down the gauntlet with non-album single “Panic,” whose ...