Johnny Marr's hair looked terrible on the recent interview that formed part of this segment. Oh, the dye! And the cut! Somebody stop him!

Yeah, Johnny was looking a bit chubby too. Still cool though. Best segment for me was video of Meat is Murder studio, Johnny playing guitar with fag in mouth, complete Keith Richards look, Morrissey singing with headphones on. Fantastic!

There seemed to be at least some footage I hadn't seen before or at least for a long time (for example, Morrissey interviewing some 14 year old playwright from the Tube)

Robert Elms or some other hopeless case burbled on about how the Smiths were adopted by a generation of rich middle class miserablist kids who had no idea of what a lucky bunch they were. That interview was immediately followed by a guy who talked about how listening to the Smiths while growing up on a violent council estate made him feel less alone.

The b-list celeb intervewees basically divided about 60-40 pro/anti Smiths, which is a pretty accurate demographical representation of the reactions of 30-something Brits. I remember at college, one of my friends, who came from "up north" telling me that at school people either listened to The Smiths or to Heavy Metal. But when you went into the pub, Duran Duran's "Rio" video was always playing on the video-jukebox. . .

The more pertinent observations from this programme were by Paul Morley and Johnny Marr. Morley likened Morrissey's pre-Smiths persona to the character of Roy Cropper from Coronation Street (those of you not familiar with 'Coro' will be non-plussed but lets say Roy is a geek but he's very keen). Morley did have the good grace to say that when he heard 'This Charming Man' and knowing of Morrissey's involvement he was blown away.
Marr's riposte to the accusation of miserablism was something like: '..all I can say is that when we played the fans didn't look miserable. The gigs were more like football matches' At this point they showed some live footage from Derby with much exuberance in evidence.
Those of you with an interest in trivia will be interested to know that the playwright featured - Shaun Duggan - went on to write for Brookside and contributed some suitable overwrought storylines.
Incidentally with a few exceptions, i'm against the eighties!

I read somewhere amongst the comments that this fella is a famous Mancunian ( ? ). Excuse me if I'm wrong, but isn't the short tongued one actually a Derby lad ??.