Poster of last Smiths gig - Anti-Apartheid Movement benefit 1986

I wrote a little something on my blog about this poster and the gig here: http://hatfulofhistory.wordpress.co...heid-movement-you-have-incredibly-good-taste/

Rolling Stone just had an article online about this gig: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/flashback-the-smiths-play-their-last-ever-gig-20140313

The new online archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement has a bunch of posters relating to the AAM, including this poster from the last Smiths gig in 1986. The poster is no. 83 on this page: http://www.aamarchives.org/browse-the-archive/posters.html?start=80

Not sure whether this poster has been viewable online before.

...I wrote a little something on my blog about this poster and the gig here.

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Also posted by kissmyshadestoo:

Rolling Stone just had an article online about this gig:

Flashback: The Smiths Play Their Last-Ever Gig - Rolling Stone
Watch the group's complete set at London's Brixton Academy in 1986

Confused.

How is this a poster of the final gig if their final gig was December 12th 1986 and this is November 14th 1986?

The gig was rescheduled after Johnny Marr broke his arm.

hatfulofhistory said:

The gig was rescheduled after Johnny Marr broke his arm.

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Wasn't it rather that he (Johnny Marr) was in a neck brace following a car crash?

I went to the Royal Albert Hall with a new-found friend of mine to try to buy tickets, only to find that the gig had been cancelled. This must be the best gig I never went to, and that never happened. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride.

Southport Grandma said:

Wasn't it rather that he (Johnny Marr) was in a neck brace following a car crash?

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Yes, how selfish can you get?????!!! What was he diving in those days? It was BMW I understand. I'm guessing it was a 635 CSi coupe - just a wild guess. I was shocked when I heard he was driving a BMW. I had visions of The Smiths driving Vauxhall Crestas or Triumph Heralds. I believe Goddard reports Jonny was driving a 528i.

He drives a BMW, blue to be exact. I know because I have ridden in it!

He drives a BMW, blue to be exact. I know because I have been in the front seat! Crazy days!!

terrancestamp said:

He drives a BMW, blue to be exact. I know because I have been in the front seat! Crazy days!!

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My mother had a date with Terence Stamp.....before he was famous.

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terrancestamp said:

He drives a BMW, blue to be exact. I know because I have been in the front seat! Crazy days!!

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Am jealous, except that knowing Johnny's history of car crashes I'd be very nervous.

http://foreverill.com/interviews/post87/marrview.htm

JR: In 1986, you had the car crash. Was that a pivotal point in telling you to take stock?
JM: Yes, it was really. I'd been out with Mike and his girlfriend and I went to take Mike home. He didn't live too far way, so I dropped him off. Then I got literally to 150 yards from my house. There are some lights stopping you and the road forks off one way. There was a cassette in the machine and it had gone round the other side; and just as I was at the lights, the other side had started up. So I thought I'd put my foot down and take a two-minute diversion around the block.
It was pouring with rain, and the car went completely out of control, then bounced off a couple of walls and ended up in the middle of the road. I jumped out and saw that the car was completely squashed. I couldn't believe that I was still alive. I did more damage running from the car to the house, falling over and stuff, than I did in the crash. It was the next day that I started getting stiff.
There was something I remember about the car crash which was a little sad. I don't want to make too much of this, but we were supposed to be playing an Artists Against Apartheid gig at the Royal Albert Hall. There was a letter from one of our fans saying the whole thing was a cover-up. I thought, "What kind of people are calling themselves our fans?" The top half of me was bandaged up and braced, and I had splints and all this kind of crap. The Smiths would have done anything to get to concerts under terrible circumstances. That was the first time I can remember feeling a separation between what the fans were believing and the truth. It taught me a lesson.