I am really enjoying reading peoples thoughts on these, its nice to see the "spam" type comment people seem to have been kept out
I think, for most of us, who are British/ Irish especially The Smiths are very much our story to a degree.
Thats not to say people from other countries, do not connect, its just not quite in the same way- in a way M stayed English right up until Quarry. Quarry onwards has been a more transatlantic approach.
By Queen Is Dead , as the title suggests, Smiths world was less queer, in someways. They had found their way. They were for keeps. They were now a serious concern. they were in their pomp ..They were in their imperial stage.
This song, like Heaven Kmows was Pure Smiths- Music, words , the world that was conjured. was as Smiths as you could get.
It's not my fav song but it makes me smile. and it means alot as reminds me of a time and place.
As I get older, this song makes me sad.
There was so much romance to being young and being into Smiths world.. for those of us that were poor. It was life itself. Alas, you can't live there forever or maybe you have to leave it, to return to it
Sadly. for M.. The world he created was so rich and beautiful. that he could never really escape it and he could rarely live up to it.
Sadly people didn't realise M was being dramatic and theatrical in part and they actually thought Morrissey never had sex, never had a drink and spent his life in a box bedroom , they missed the point somewhat