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Fact #64149

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Short story:

When The Smiths record a live session in Maida Vale studios, London, England, UK, Europe, for BBC Radio One's John Peel show, Rough Trade Records boss Geoff Travis hears the song This Charming Man and suggests it should be their next single.

Full article:

Johnny Marr (guitarist, The Smiths) : I remember waking up in a cottage, just outside of Manchester, that the manager Joe Moss’s wife owned, and getting ready to go to Rough Trade in London.

I knew we had a John Peel session a week later and we needed a couple of new songs, so I put it down, almost as a mess-about, and the whole thing just poured out.

Because I’d done it so casually I wasn’t sure if it was any good or not, then we recorded it at Maida Vale and I realised it had something special about it.

Geoff Travis : It was certainly the first time I'd heard the song and I remember saying 'That's a fantastic track. It'd make a great single.' And the band said, 'That sounds OK by us.' A sort of happy, casual but serious decision, as things were then with the group. It was a really golden time for the group, around that session, they were just getting into the first flowering of their most creative period.
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