It's Monday, which means The Smiths have unveiled another previously unreleased live song in celebration of the forthcoming expanded reissues for The Queen Is Dead. This week's selection from the archives is a live version of "Cemetry Gates" recorded live at Manchester's Free Trade Hall on October 30th, 1986. Like the previous four installments in the series, it will not be included on the newly expanded editions of The Queen Is Dead. Stream below or on Spotify.
Fans are encouraged to post memories of The Queen Is Dead and/or The Smiths on social media with a fitting hashtag (for example, #TQID2017) for inclusion on The Queen Is Dead official tribute site. View the page here.
The Queen Is Dead will be reissued as a 2CD, 5LP, and 3CD/1DVD box on October 20th with previously unreleased material. The material (original, demos, and previously unreleased material) included on these expanded editions was remastered by engineering guru Bill Inglot who worked with the Smiths previously on The Very Best Of The Smiths (Dan Hersch also contributed to that 2001 compilation).
All three editions of The Queen Is Dead are available to pre-order through Amazon. 2CD, 3CD/1DVD, 5LP
Published August 28th, 2017