Really quite surprised to realise that it is now thirty years since the Smiths released their fir

st two singles ‘hand In Glove’ and ‘This Charming Man.’

They may only have had a recording car

eer of four years but they were astoundingly prolific in that time. It probably doesn’t

matter now, but I think ‘…Man’ is the stronger of the two singles for a debut. It did bring them into the charts, though, and thou

gh this wasn’t an official video (t

hey didn’t do those for all their singles), the filmed clip for The Tube is pretty classic.

…and I’d still like to learn how to play that riff on

the guitar.