While Bernard Sumner was busy being in multiple great acts from Manchester, he had plenty of time to appreciate the greatness ...

The Smiths were a once-in-a-generation band, and guitarist Johnny Marr still thinks that nobody has matched the quality of their track 'Unhappy Birthday'.

Likewise, you’ve said you wanted your Smiths acoustic parts to have attitude… “I was determined that this aspect of the band was going to get noticed. I was so proud for us to be an all-out ...

The Smiths are so important. They embodied the independent spirit, as well as patenting that classic ‘indie’ sound. They’re a band’s band, too – there’s so much to learn from them.

So one of the band’s least appealing and ostensibly least successful songs actually stands as arguably their single most powerful moment. Less difficult to explain, perhaps, is how come it was a ...

Let’s just say that The Martin Smith Band is not what some people would consider to be a “typical” blues band. Their music is inspired by a deep love of the blues – but also borrows deeply ...

here's a very special piece on The Smiths - from the March 2007 issue of Uncut (Take 118). Famous fans including Noel Gallagher and Ian Brown, as well as the band themselves, select the very ...