The Smiths didn’t break up immediately after the Brixton gig. A few months later, they began work on Strangeways, Here We Come, their final album.The group split before it even came out.

Here's a list of the top 20 best The Smiths songs. By Joe Lynch Executive Digital Director There aren’t many casual fans of The Smiths. The ostentatiously literate, willfully morose British ...

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The Smiths fans are confused by a trailer for new film Shoplifters of the World, based around the music of the band.

In an act of typically Smiths-ian perversity though, the band sequenced “Never Had No One Ever” immediately after another “sad bastard” ballad, “I Know It’s Over,” one of Morrissey ...

"The Smiths are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to reunite – ever," Morrissey's publicist has told Rolling Stone , effectively squashing the dreams of sad kids who grew up ...

On seminal Smiths recordings in the 1980s, guitarist Johnny Marr said, "Andy reinvented what it is to be a bass guitar player." Rourke had been ill with pancreatic cancer. He was 59.

Andy Rourke, the bassist and founding member of the iconic British rock band, The Smiths, has died of cancer. He was 59. Former band member and guitarist Johnny Marr broke the heartbreaking news ...

This box of remastered editions of Smiths albums-- four studio records, three compilations of the singles and one-offs, one live obligation-- would cement their reputation for brilliance and ...

The Smiths were together for a little over five years, and their career moved at such incredible speed, even they sometimes struggled to keep up. This is very much the story of their debut album.

Andy Rourke, bass guitarist of The Smiths, one of the most influential British bands of the 1980s, has died after a lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer, his former bandmate Johnny Marr said Friday.

Andy Rourke, the bass player who provided the muscle and drive behind the darkly poetic musings of the Smiths, one of the most influential bands of the 1980s, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 59.