"Hand In Glove" (Morrissey / Marr) The debut single of The Smiths, released in May 1983. Chart positions # 126. Home: GEORGE O'Mara. A remix version of the single then appear on the debut album (1984) A promise of selfless devotion to an idealized love, overshadowed only by the pessimistic belief that the union be brief, "Hand In Glove" was the soundtrack of the burgeoning partnership with Marr. Written in January 1983, approximately six months after they had begun working together, it was a mission statement, but romantic in the beginning of The Smiths, as well as a prophecy of his final, bound to happen within the next 5. Of the dozens of letters written by Morrissey who is believed to have been inspired by Marr, "Hand In Glove" is as obvious as any. "Even I assumed it was on both of us when we wrote" admits Marr "simply because we were the only ones that we were always together in that time."
And worthy of a song of this magnitude, "Hand In Glove "is a Greek myth in itself. A wet Sunday afternoon drizzle, Marr and his girlfriend Angie visited his parents in Whythenshawe. "I had gone to visit my little brother" Marr recalls "there was an old, old acoustic guitar that I had left and started playing those chords. I was playing it very tight, almost funky, "there really is something" I thought, then Angie said "Sounds pretty good." So I looked for something to record, but I found nothing "
The only radio cassette recorder that I knew I could get Marr certainly was six miles (10 Km), at 384 Kings Road, Stretford, to be precise. "I had to get a radio cassette," says Marr, "so I had to go to Morrissey, but did not know if he was going to be home or not."
Luckily for Marr, Angie had borrowed the parent Volkswagen Beetle . "We used to drive without a destination when we had to go. And more often than ever, used to practice with my harmonica while she was driving, so think about it now, must have been really irritating "While Angie drove to Stretford, Marr continued to play his new song. "I tried not to change it or forget it, when Angie suddenly told me, "" make it sound more like Iggy. "" So due to travel by car, and yelling, I started to play it closer to the album Raw Power (Iggy Pop's third album and the Stooges.) Finally we where Morrissey. He said: "Oh ... Hello?" I did not expect was something like ... you know ... a Sunday night and without warning! "Still, we recorded a cassette with the riff. So the genesis of "Hand In Glove" surcedió somewhere on the M56 highway. "
Morrissey says he wrote the letter that same night in two hours. Describing the theme of the song as "complete isolation" he explained, "it was important to me that there was something poetically sear it in a lyrical sense, but still joyful at the same time. I always thought to be poetically faded and joyful at the same time was very difficult, because there are two extreme emotions, but I always wanted them together in some way. "
alone in his room Stretford" surrounded by many words ", within the puzzle that is "Hand In Glove" recognized parts bookshelf and Morrissey's record collection. The last line "I'll Probably never see you again" (probably not see you again) appears in two books published of his mentor Shelagh Delaney, "A TASTE OF HONEY" AND "THE LION IN LOVE" (FLAVORED HONEY AND THE LION IN LOVE) is also likely that the song "Bells" album 1971 of Buffy Saint-Marie and written by Leonard Cohen, has provided another source with the line "Everything depends upon how near you sleep to me" (It depends on how close it sleep with me.) Taking into account its obsession with Sandie Shaw, and the 1967 hit "You've Not changed", it is unlikely that the line that mentions the rags (Rags) also comes from the song "If You Wore rags, you'd still look good to me "(if you were wearing rags, even'd look good to me)
Morrissey spoke after his line" hidden by rags "(rags) as one of his favorite lines, explaining:" This is how I felt when it was not enough to buy clothes and dressed almost in rags, but mentally I was not poor. The inspiration? Just the idea of \u200b\u200bpeople giving extreme importance to what they had and how they dressed, and all that sense of worth very materialistic, which is completely redundant. And back to the old cliché that says what you are inside, is what one really is "
Five days after the sudden visit Sunday night Marr, Morrissey unveiled the song in one of the band rehearsals. As Marr recalls, "when we hear the vocal melody, we said Wow! And since then we always thought it would be the first single, even after his debut at La Hacienda in Manchester in early February, as the views of "Hand In Glove" was the most solid song to date was unanimous within the band. "It was as if these four people had to play that song Morrissey later reflected," It was so important. These words should be sung "
Funded by the time manager, Joe Moss, and cost 250 pounds (200,000 dollars approx) HAND IN GLOVE was recorded last weekend in February 1983 in Strawberry Studio in Stockport, which had already been previously visited by the legend of music in Manchester, the Buzzcocks, Joy Division as well and the owners of the study, 10cc.
style "Iggy" the composition of Marr, made with James Williamson riff on "Gimme Danger" from the album "Raw Power" was never very clear in its implementation, consistent with its sad, but always aggressive, and accompanied by solid bass and Rourke violent beating of cymbals Joyce. After the hard tone of the baritone voice of Morrissey in the early demos of the band, was "Hand In Glove" where he found his true voice, passionately raw, precise diction, a flicker of hope emerged from a pile of ashes despair. Another offered the ghostly atmosphere melancholy harmonica Marr, offering a parallel in texture, whether intentional or not, with the 1962 debut of The Beatles, Love Me Do.
That same recording made in Strawbery studies was used to woo Rough Trade, which launched as a single debut in the same month of May. "It must be heard around the world "said Morrissey" must be translated into all languages. I feel so much for this song. Seems to be the soundtrack of my life. It seems that everything I did before "Hand In Glove" was ready to get there. I think the issue is absolutely perfect in every way, and if it is wasted I think I will become ill, perhaps forever. "
As the first single of new film released on an independent label, which have not entered a Top 40 single, "Hand In Glove" failed in his attempt to immerse the Smiths in the mainstream of pop that had to wait for its predecessor, THIS CHARMING MAN. Morrissey never fully recovered from the commercial disappointment, mourning for the fate that cataloged as "the only tragedy of the band."
The re-recorded with producer Troy Tate for inclusion in the abandoned first album, then recorded JOHN PORTER again, with a jovial arrangements altered, thus advancing the future cover by Sandie Shaw. Not happy with the result, decided to return to the original recording made in the Strawberry Studios, which was remixed by John Porter and included in the debut album from 1984, replacing the fade-in and fade out the track by an abrupt onset and final. As a more remix clear and crisp as the original, lost a bit that hardness northern version of the single, as Morrissey commented afterwards.
In a conversation in 1984, the singer nominated for "Hand In Glove" and "the special song that he and Marr had written until then, a matter of" great value romantic and personal "that he hoped that" become something of a hymn. " Although the issue was denied the status of hit that the singer desperately wanted, with the passage of time certainly reached anthem status, and still remains one of the most treasured and essential Morrissey and Marr. With an irony that is scary, this debut single also be the last song the band play live in the past ignored farewell concert at the Brixton Academy in London on December 12, 1986.
Source: Mozipedia / Translation: Alejandro Martin
Stallion
(Morrissey / Marr)
Stallion
the sun shines upon us
No, this is not like any other love
This is different because we are.
glove We can go where
we please And everything depends on how close my
're
And if people look
Then they look really
Oh
not know and do not really care
Claw
meat and good laughs People
Yes, we may be hidden in rags
But we have something they never have.
Stallion
the sun shines upon us
Yes, we may be hidden in rags
But we have something they never have.
And if people look
Then they look really
Oh
not know and do not really care
So hand in glove claim my rights and fight to
last breath
If they dare touch a hair
fight until the last breath
The good life is out there somewhere
So stay in my arms, my little charm
But I know my fate as well
Yes, I know my luck
well probably never see you again
probably never see you again.
probably not see you again
Amartino * Lyrics *
1, Hand In Glove: A term referring to a person who has a close association. Can be translated as glove, fingernail dirt, half, and pants etc. poto.
2 ° The sun shine out of someone's behind: Literally, "the sunlight shines on the back of someone." Yet it is a colloquial way of referring to a person that you think best and which also is better than everyone else in the eyes of one, usually for the love or obsession. So it should not be translated literally because it has no meaning in English.
Hand In Glove
(Morrissey / Marr)
Hand in glove 1 °
the sun shines out of Our behinds 2 °
No, it's Not Like Any Other Love
this one is Different
Because it's us!
Hand in glove
We Can Go Wherever we please
and Everything depends upon how near
you stand to me
And if the people stare
then, the people stare
I really don't know
and I really don't care
Kiss my shades...
Hand in glove
the Good People laugh
Yes, we may be hidden by "rags"
but we have something they'll never have
Hand in glove
the sun shines out of our behinds
Yes, we may be hidden by "rags"
but we have something they'll never have
And if the people stare
then, the people stare
I really don't know
and I really don't care
So hand in glove I stake my claim
I'll fight to the last breath
If they dare touch a hair on your head
I'll fight to the last breath
For The Good Life is out there, somewhere
So stay on my arm, you little charmer
But I know my luck too well
yes, I know my luck too well
and I'll probably never see you again
I'll probably never see you again
I'll probably never see you again
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