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"The Smiths - Songs That Saved Your Life" by Simon Goddard out Nov. 2002
posted by davidt on Monday September 30 2002, @08:00AM

 Peter Noble PR sends:

For Immediate Release

Reynolds & Hearn are set to publish two extraordinary music books in mid November, 'The Smiths: Songs That Saved Your Life', and 'The Unknown Paul McCartney'.

For full press release and downloadable pack shot: http://www.noblepr.co.uk/Press_Releases/reynolds_h/smiths.htm

Songs That Saved Your Life is the first book to chronicle the complete recordings of The Smiths. The readers of the New Musical Express recently voted the band the most influential band of all time, beating the Beatles and the Sex Pistols. The book takes a detailed look at all The Smiths' released and previously unreleased songs including the rare "Matter of Opinion".

With a revealing foreword by Smiths drummer, Mike Joyce, 'Songs That Saved Your Life' is brilliantly researched and written by renowned music journalist Simon Goddard. It is timely that Goddard's first book is being hailed as the most important Smiths document to be published since Johnny Rogan's infamous 'The Severed Alliance' biography in 1992.

Interest in The Smiths is currently at an all time high due to Morrissey's recent live concert appearances and the fact that he is currently in the midst of negotiating a new recording contract. In 2002 we need The Smiths, now, more than ever.
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KB writes:

This article was on the nme.com site. A foreward by Mike Joyce... should be interesting

Much-anticipated Smiths book out shortly - NME.com, Sept. 30, 2002
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    Who cares about Mike Joyce? (Score:1)
    It's all very fine but I can't help but think that this book has got to be sort of second rate. I mean, the foreword is by Mike Joyce! Who cares about him?! He dragged Morrissey and Johnny Marr to court and now he suddenly has something interesting to add to the whole story! Nah, I don't think so...It would be more interesting if Morrissey or Marr had written the foreword but I don't think they care about this book. Joyce, on the other hand, knows his fifteen minutes of fame are over and unfortunately he tries to make them last a couple of minutes longer...
    mozzergirl -- Monday September 30 2002, @08:50AM (#43390)
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    • Re:Who cares about Mike Joyce? by Anonymous (Score:0) Monday September 30 2002, @09:30AM
        Re:Who cares about Mike Joyce? (Score:2, Interesting)
        I don't need to read it. All I need is Morrissey's songs and his wit, something that Mike Joyce probably couldn't care less about. Why should a drummer who hasn't done anything beside being a drummer be paid the same as the guy who wrote the songs and the guy who wrote the music?
        mozzergirl -- Monday September 30 2002, @11:45AM (#43417)
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    • Re:Who cares about Mike Joyce? by Fox in the Snow (Score:1) Monday September 30 2002, @10:52PM
        Re:Who cares about Mike Joyce? (Score:2, Insightful)
        The thing you need to remember before making a comment like this is that (a) some people love the music that the Smiths and Morrissey made because it really did save their lives; (b) some people are wholly fixated on Morrissey as a person. You can be both: but if you're a bit obssessed with Morrissey personally you tend to want to defend him against every imagined threat or slight.
        David T (different) -- Tuesday October 01 2002, @12:57AM (#43507)
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    • Re:Who cares about Mike Joyce? by SWEETANDKIND (Score:1) Friday November 22 2002, @03:09PM
      reader meet author (Score:0)
      I hope this is the one. Personally I dont like Rogan's style. All Men Have Secrets was like a fanzine. David Bret's was rubbish. Mick Middles was all muddles. Kevin Cummins was just a scrapbook. I hope this is the Smiths book that we deserve. I'm sick of reading bad research and same old rubbish. I hope these promises of details of new songs are carried through?

      And will it be out in US I wonder?
      Anonymous -- Monday September 30 2002, @09:36AM (#43400)
        What a strange comment... (Score:2, Insightful)
        "Interest in The Smiths is currently at an all time high due to Morrissey's recent live concert appearances..."

        Interest in the Smiths is at an all time high? I think the PR guy who wrote this is the one who is 'high'...
        Anonymous -- Monday September 30 2002, @10:29AM (#43407)
        awesome (Score:1)
        i am looking forward to this.
        naturallyfled -- Monday September 30 2002, @02:43PM (#43449)
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         ~there's more to life than books, you know, but not much more~
          A Revealing Foreward by Mike Joyce (Score:0, Troll)
          eeeewww, how enchanting...

          So, in other words, what we've got to look forward to is a pack of lies again?

          Sorry, but I couldn't care less.

          Oh, go ahead, Troll me...nah, I'll do myself

          Troll score: 0
          hand in glove -- Monday September 30 2002, @07:10PM (#43479)
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           Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. - William Blake
            Somebody buy it (Score:0)
            Well, somebodies gotta buy. Is this a CD OR just a book? Not clear. Bjork has this family tree thing coming out that seems to sound like part book and part a million songs. So i wonder. I too am a bit annoyed that the one smith they talk too happens to be the one that shouldn't, and never did, for good reason as we'll find out.
            If it is a CD...one of us is gonna have to get it, and upload any rare stuff on it. Alternate anything, and unearthed track.
            *MozMonstar says, "me want rarity" yes that was lame but so what.
            I say we should all find those other guys...lol "the other guys in the band" and stone'em.
            Argh

            The Mozkateer
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            Mozkateer -- Monday September 30 2002, @09:14PM (#43488)
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              true statement........ (Score:1)
              how couls have it said any better? This is the worst time for music any where...we need morrissey more than ever...those who have only been exposed to mainstream pop music of today have not had the opportunity to here the gift of morrissey ..they will have the opportunity to expand their horizons.and this nightmare will all be fixed!
              snakeyes -- Sunday November 24 2002, @03:00PM (#49783)
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