The medley of Rubber Ring and What She Said,recorded in 1986, features on a forthcoming deluxe version of The Queen is DeadMuscular, and honest,funny – The Queen is Dead has all the most endearing traits of the Smiths dialled up to the max, and is thought of by many as the band’s masterpiece album. With Bigmouth Strikes Again, and There is a Light That Never Goes Out and The Boy With the Thorn in His Side,it certainly contains many of their signature songs.
It’s now getting the full dad-pleasing Christmas box set treatment: a 3xCD and DVD combo with the original album, demos and B-sides, or Derek Jarman’s radiant music video trilogy,and Live in Boston, an unreleased recording of a gig during their 1986 US tour (the LA date of which produced the much-coveted bootleg album Thank Your Lucky Stars).
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Source: theguardian.com