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The Smiths are photographed outside Salford Lads Club, Coronation Street, Manchester, England, UK, Europe, by Steven Wright. The shot will appear on the inside cover of the album The Queen Is Dead.Full article:
Steven Wright (photographer) : I was very new to being a professional photographer. I usually just did live stuff. I’d done some shots of them at The Free Trade Hall in Manchester and sent them to Rough Trade who then asked me to do the shot for the inside cover of the album. I was using my first real Nikon, I had half a dozen cans of film in my pocket and a friend was carrying my plastic bags of stuff for me. I didn’t even have a tripod or a light meter.
If you'd picked the worst day, technically, to do outside photographs, that was it. It was a bloody dark day. It wasn't Coronation Street as in the Granada set. It's a short street of decaying terraced houses.
Morrissey (singer, The Smiths) : We took our lives in our hands getting that photo. While we were setting up a gang of ten-year-old girls came and terrorised us. Everyone in the street had a club-foot and a vicious dog!
Steven Wright : We did some shots outside Salford Lads Club. I think it was actually shut at the time. There was a bit of a fuss afterwards, because everyone started going down there to take pictures of themselves, like Japanese tourists. People were writing 'I luv Morrissey,' 'Mozz woz here,' sort of aerosoling the brickwork. And the club actually had a go at Rough Trade. They felt that the image of the club had been let down because none of them (The Smiths) had been members of the club. I think they were probably after a new ping-pong table or something.
Mike Joyce (drummer, The Smiths) : It was a gang. A gang of lads who weren't denying our roots. There was none of that fuckin' cock rock, on the edge of the cliff in the video with the helicopter swooping down - that had all been done before and it was boring. So the imagery was important.
Andy Rourke (bassist, The Smiths) : We did some shots outside Albert Finney's shop as well. It was a bit of nostalgia, a bit of Mancunian history and a bit of laddism.
Mike Joyce : In a way it was The Smiths' Lads Club. Because it always was. And that's why, whatever happens in the future, I could never detach myself from that. Whatever happens in the court case and all that kind of shit, I can never separate myself from the fact that what we had there... was a bit majestic. All that stuff about, ‘Oh, The Smiths, you either love 'em or loathe 'em,’ is a load of bollocks. I think that what we did, and the mark that we made on music is more than what The Beatles did. I think it's more than what The Stones did.
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If you'd picked the worst day, technically, to do outside photographs, that was it. It was a bloody dark day. It wasn't Coronation Street as in the Granada set. It's a short street of decaying terraced houses.
Morrissey (singer, The Smiths) : We took our lives in our hands getting that photo. While we were setting up a gang of ten-year-old girls came and terrorised us. Everyone in the street had a club-foot and a vicious dog!
Steven Wright : We did some shots outside Salford Lads Club. I think it was actually shut at the time. There was a bit of a fuss afterwards, because everyone started going down there to take pictures of themselves, like Japanese tourists. People were writing 'I luv Morrissey,' 'Mozz woz here,' sort of aerosoling the brickwork. And the club actually had a go at Rough Trade. They felt that the image of the club had been let down because none of them (The Smiths) had been members of the club. I think they were probably after a new ping-pong table or something.
Mike Joyce (drummer, The Smiths) : It was a gang. A gang of lads who weren't denying our roots. There was none of that fuckin' cock rock, on the edge of the cliff in the video with the helicopter swooping down - that had all been done before and it was boring. So the imagery was important.
Andy Rourke (bassist, The Smiths) : We did some shots outside Albert Finney's shop as well. It was a bit of nostalgia, a bit of Mancunian history and a bit of laddism.
Mike Joyce : In a way it was The Smiths' Lads Club. Because it always was. And that's why, whatever happens in the future, I could never detach myself from that. Whatever happens in the court case and all that kind of shit, I can never separate myself from the fact that what we had there... was a bit majestic. All that stuff about, ‘Oh, The Smiths, you either love 'em or loathe 'em,’ is a load of bollocks. I think that what we did, and the mark that we made on music is more than what The Beatles did. I think it's more than what The Stones did.
(Source : not known)