It read, " Andy – you have left The Smiths.

In July 1987, Marr left the group permanently because he thought an NME article entitled " Smiths to Split " was planted by Morrissey, when in fact it was not.

" To me, The Smiths were a beautiful thing and Johnny left it, and Mike has destroyed it.

In May 2006, Dann Gallucci ( who had left the band amicably in September 2004 ) was replaced on guitar by Johnny Marr, former guitarist for The Smiths.

The picture on the left of Caleb Blood Smiths home use to have a pond.

He also worked on a new band project called Freebass with bass players Mani ( The Stone Roses ) and Andy Rourke ( ex-The Smiths ).

Others in the small crowd went on to form Joy Division, The Fall, and — in the 1980s — The Smiths.

Around the middle of his career, Edison attributed the hearing impairment to being struck on the ears by a train conductor when his chemical laboratory in a boxcar caught fire and he was thrown off the train in Smiths Creek, Michigan, along with his apparatus and chemicals.

Shelley himself appeared on the programme in 2000, where host Mark Lamarr introduced Shelley by saying that without Buzzcocks " there'd be no Smiths or Radiohead, and this show would be called Never Mind Joan Armatrading!

They decided on Wolstencroft ( who had turned down the job of drummer in The Smiths ) as drummer and Pete Garner as bassist ( despite his admission that he could not play anything but " Blockbuster ").

A partial reunion took place on 30 March 2007 at former Smiths ' bassist Andy Rourke's charity concert in aid of Manchester Versus Cancer.

The Smiths lived at their Potomac River home in Bethesda, Maryland, from 1958 until his death from pneumonia, after which Mrs. Smith relocated to a condominium on Marco Island, Florida.

" on a Smiths tribute album.

Optima was also used as the original fonts used on The Smiths original 7 " single covers and their debut album.

The trail turned north following the Bear River past the terminus of the Sublette-Greenwood Cutoff at Smiths Fork and on to the Thomas Fork Valley at the present Wyoming-Idaho border.

In February 1984, the group released their debut album The Smiths, which reached number two on the UK Albums Chart.

Johnny Marr was exhausted and on the verge of alcoholism, and took a break from the band in June 1987, which he felt was negatively perceived by the other Smiths.

The Smiths were the subject of a South Bank Show documentary produced by LWT and broadcast by ITV on 18 October 1987, four months after their break-up and three weeks after the release of Strangeways.

In March 1989, Joyce and Rourke started legal proceedings against their former bandmates, arguing that they were equal partners in The Smiths and each entitled to a 25 percent share of the band's profits on all activities other than songwriting and publishing.

But Morrissey and Marr acted throughout on the basis that they would be getting 40 percent each of the net profits from The Smiths earnings.

In November 2005, Mike Joyce told Marc Riley on BBC Radio 6 Music that financial hardship had reduced him to selling rare Smiths ' recordings on eBay.

" Erlewine elsewhere observes that, " the anti-record company ' Paint a Vulgar Picture '" – on Strangeways, Here We Come – " has grown increasingly ironic in the wake of the Smiths ' and Morrissey's love of repackaging the same material in new compilations.

In 1986, when The Smiths performed on the British music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test, Morrissey wore a fake hearing-aid to support a hearing-impaired fan who was ashamed of using one, and also frequently wore thick-rimmed National Health Service-style glasses.

As early as 1985, " the Smiths had spawned a rash of soundalike bands, including James, who opened for the group on their spring 1985 tour ".

" Blur formed as a result of seeing The Smiths on The South Bank Show in 1987.

* The Jason Shergold Music Collector Site – includes a page ( June 2010 ) on The Smiths with discography.

* " London ", a song by The Smiths on the album Louder Than Bombs

* " London ", a Smiths cover by Anthrax on the album Sound of White Noise

The first plant outside Hershey, Pennsylvania opened on June 15, 1963 in Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada and the third opened on May 22, 1965 in Oakdale, California.

* Smiths Corners – A location northeast of Madrid village on County Road 14.

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* Ep 297 ( 1999-10-17 ) Music That Mattered 6: 14 & 13-featuring: The Smiths & Sonic Youth

Released on July 25, 2006, the album featured guitarist Steve Conte, bassist Sami Yaffa ( ex-Hanoi Rocks ), drummer Brian Delaney and keyboardist Brian Koonin, formerly a member of David Johansen and the Harry Smiths.

Factory Records Festival Of The Tenth Summer took place in July 1986 celebrating the 10th anniversary of Punk and included appearances by The Smiths and New Order.

Douglas Jack Wiseman ( born July 21, 1930 in Smiths Falls, Ontario ) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada.

As critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine has pointed out, " Several months after releasing their first album, the Smiths issued the singles and rarities collection Hatful of Hollow, establishing a tradition of repackaging their material as many times and as quickly as possible.

Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.

Esther finally gets to meet John properly when he is a guest at the Smiths ' house party, although her chances of romancing him don't go to plan when, after all the guests are gone and he is helping her turn off the gas lamps throughout the house, he tells her she uses the same perfume as his grandmother and that she has " a mighty strong grip for a girl ".

* In November 2006, the Smiths Falls production plant in Ontario, Canada temporarily shut down and several products were voluntarily recalled after concerns over salmonella contamination possibly found in soy lecithin within their production line.

The oldest settlement in Greenville is Smiths Corners, named after Elijah Smith and founded at the end of the Revolutionary War.

He started learning to play guitar after hearing Marr and was able to play all Smiths songs by ear.

* The Smiths song " Half A Person " is thought to be titled after the quote, " Caliban is half a person at the best of times.

But soon after Neo leaves, hundreds of Smiths come and assimilate Seraph, Sati, and the Oracle.

He reportedly regretted this decision later-but he was responsible for getting The Smiths their first session after witnessing an early concert.

The book was named after the 1987 single " Girlfriend in a Coma " by The Smiths.

He received an offer to play with the Philadelphia Phillies after high school ( Smiths Station High ), but he was drafted into the US Army.

However, this decision was only added in after the show's hundredth premier, for it was originally for the Smiths to restart the show, in exactly the same manner as before.

Street also collaborated with Morrissey on some of his most popular work after The Smiths broke up, playing instruments and co-writing songs.

Smiths & Sons where they worked after the owner's death and renamed it Jensen Motors in 1934.

Pretty Girls Make Graves was a post-punk band, formed in Seattle in 2001, named after The Smiths song of the same name ( which itself was named after a quote from Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums ).

The Smiths ' song Shakespeare's Sister is named after a section of the essay.

The John Smiths Grange End became the most vocal area of the ground ( from the Bob bank up until the 90's ) and was a fully covered terrace, previously uncovered for many years, before its renovation in 2001 after Sam Hammam took over as chairman.

NME wrote " Sleighbells, Cuban trumpets, half-inched Smiths lyrics and chasms of lovely echo all add to an insomnia-like reverie that clings on long after its mere half-hour is up.