The World of The Smiths and Morrissey by Angie J Cooke nee Lewis

PRECIOUS THINGS How My Smiths and Moz Collection Began The list of dates from my notebook detailing when I bought my Smiths albums for the first time It all began on 16 th September 1988, which is a date that is forever etched in my mind.  I’d already been mesmerised by the beautiful Everyday Is Like Sunday back in May/June of Nineteen Eighty Hate as a 15 year old teen fresh out of high school, but hadn’t yet been brave enough to purchase the single or any other Moz records available at that point.  Then, on 5 th September of the same year, by which time I’d turned 16, Rank by The Smiths was released.  My Youth Training Scheme was well under way by now and I was on placement at my local council’s Education Department, so I had a miniscule disposable income burning the smallest of holes in my pocket.  I deliberated for a few days, and then on the 16 th took the plunge and bought the album that would alter the course of my entire life (the br...

FAME, FAME, FATAL FAME MY SECRET LIFE AS A VIDEO AND TV "STAR"! The following "historical" celluloid appearances can all be found on my YouTube Channel, Ms Adidas Angie 1972: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9m6IWFdqWMNMnLhDhghmBA , links are below: Love Bites - Morrissey Documentary 1995 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcejOFtN3D0&t=1132s The People's History of Pop - BBC North West 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqqBSq0yghU The People's History of Pop - BBC Four 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94DirT6M4CM&t=9s

PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF POP THE BAND THAT CHANGED (AND SAVED!!) MY LIFE Dates I bought all my Smiths cassettes in 1988 from my original notebook I was 15 going on 16, it was just after I’d left secondary education in 1988 and I was waiting for my Youth Training Scheme (remember those?!) to kick in.  I’d heard of The Smiths whilst I was at school obviously as they were very successful in terms of hits and presence, but I didn’t think much to them as I had completely the wrong idea.  I didn’t mind  Ask  and  Girlfriend in a Coma , though.  I also recall approving of Morrissey’s stance on the monarchy when I realised they were just glorified benefit scroungers and fit for precisely nothing! What changed everything forever was when I first heard  Everyday is Like Sunday .   Suedehead  had intrigued me I must admit, but I was completely floored when  EILS  floated so beautifully out of the airwaves and TV scre...