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Fact #159561

When:

Short story:

The Smiths top the UK album chart for the first and last time with Meat Is Murder.

Full article:

Morrissey : Its lifespan was embarrassingly short. And the amount of media attention that the LP had was extraordinary. Yet it couldn’t really hold on. It dropped from the National 100 after 13 weeks. But Shakespeare’s Sister, regardless of what many people feel, was the song of my life. I put everything into that song and I wanted it more than anything else to be a huge success and, as it happens, it wasn’t.
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