In this month’s cover story, Mike Joyce reflects on the ineffable spark behind so much great music. “On a personal level, being in The Smiths was massively intense,” he tells Rob Hughes. “That feeling between four people in a band doesn’t happen very often. With The Smiths, it was everything — the four of us, every single day. We all understood what we had, and that’s what set us apart from any other band I’d been in.”
In this month’s cover story, Mike Joyce reflects on the ineffable spark behind so much great music. “On a personal level, being in The Smiths was massively intense,” he tells Rob Hughes. “That feeling between four people in a band doesn’t happen very often. With The Smiths, it was everything — the four of us, every single day. We all understood what we had, and that’s what set us apart from any other band I’d been in.”
The band-as-gang remains one of rock’s most potent myths — from The Stones to The Clash and beyond — and in The Smiths, at their peak 40 years ago on The Queen Is Dead, it found one of its most compelling expressions.
There’s more, of course, in this issue. There’s Ringo Starr – a man who knows a thing or two about the band-as-gang – regaling us with his side-hustle in country music, a return to Talk Talk’s masterpiece Spirit Of Eden, plus more new interviews with The Lemon Twigs, Jeff Parker, Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien, The Human League, Laurie Anderson and an extended report from the opening night of Springsteen’s Land Of Hope And Dreams tour in Minneapolis. That’s before we’ve started on the reviews – and a quick flag that we’ve not written enough about SF’s Quicksilver Messenger Service before, a fault I’m happy to say we’ve rectified this month.
And don’t forget our new email address for your letters: uncut.ed@kelsey.co.uk. Write and let us know what you think of this issue.
See you again next month, when we have a very special covermount CD. I won’t tease you unduly, but the opening lines are: “Good evening, hippies. It is rumoured that there’s life out there.” Let me know if you work out who it is…
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