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Press Release: The Last of the Famous International Playboys: Special Edition Single; Kill Uncle: Album Remastered | True to You". True to You. 5 February 2013. Archived from the original on 8 February 2013 . Retrieved 7 February 2013.

Dave replaces his girlfriend’s name with ‘Moz’ on his car windscreen, and later splits from ‘Karen’ when she rejects his gift of a framed record, presumably one of Morrissey’s. After the break-up the roles are reversed, with Morrissey now pursuing Dave… it doesn’t end well. The second single from You Are The Quarry, after Irish Blood, English Heart, The First Of The Gang To Die gave Morrissey his first brace of Top 10 hits since The Last Of The Famous International Playboys and Interesting Drug in 1989. The remastered and expanded 20th anniversary edition. Includes four never-before heard Morrissey songs."

ARMSTRONG: Morrissey employed a chef at great expense. I think she was billed as Princess Margaret’s chef, so I thought it’d be an opportunity to eat really good food. But it was largely cream and pastries. Morrissey was always eating toast, but then there were these heavy, hearty, rich vegetarian meals. It wasn’t the worthy diet I expected. One of the several cut-and-paste compilations that invite a wide berth. It features some until-then unheard material that would have been better left in the studio vaults. I don't agree with those critics who castigate both Morrissey and The Smiths for being depressing. Sure the lyrics are caustic and despondent but the underlying attitude is one of resolve and resignation whilst retaining a sense of humour about the absurdity of it all – and all wreathed in the jangliest of guitar sounds. LANGER: Morrissey and I used to go on really long walks in the forest. I felt like I got pretty close to him and lived in his world for a year or so. And it’s not a logical world. He lives by his own rules and you have to live those rules as well when you’re with him. In a way it’s a bit sad, because it was an intense experience, then when you finished working with him, that was the end. It feels like you’ve made a friend, then you don’t hear from them again.

For someone almost as quintessentially English as the Carry On movies, Morrissey possesses a particular Irish sensibility, perhaps most pronounced in his proclivity for sadness. Power, Tony (15 September 2004). "Morrissey: Kill Uncle". Blender. Archived from the original on 23 November 2005 . Retrieved 18 November 2015. It’s a veritable triumph, not least on the chart-bound Suedehead, Everyday Is Like Sunday, and the slow-burning Margaret On The Guillotine, with its call for the decapitation of then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, proving that there was indeed life after Johnny Marr. The cognoscenti thought so, too, with the NME, Morrissey’s frequent sparring partners, hailing it as: “a brave record and sometimes beautiful – honest, angry and vulnerable,” and Rolling Stone, less effusively applauding it as: “a tight, fairly disciplined affair”. LANGER: We weren’t interested in musical fashions at the time, like the whole Manchester thing. That’s why Kill Uncle got slated, because it didn’t fit in and didn’t sound like The Smiths. But I thought that was its strength. Each song had a different story and feel. I wanted to pull out the colour in each song, without making it sound too over the top.

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Thompson, Dave. "Our Frank – Morrissey | Listen, Appearances, Song Review | AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved 10 February 2015.