The Smiths members Morrissey and Johnny Marr shared an appreciation for Smith's Horses, and reveal that their song " The Hand That Rocks the Cradle " is a reworking of one of the album's tracks, " Kimberly ".

Look at those tracks, I'm gonna drive my motorcycle up those saggy glad bags, get your sh * t together, sucking a good stiff will do you good " Despite all this, as well as the fact that Tesco Vee had performed a song called " Morrissey Must Die " about the Smiths ' self-identified asexual frontman and referred to him as a " fag ," they later contributed a cover of the song " How Soon Is Now?

The Smiths ' album, The Queen Is Dead is referenced in the Sleeper song, " Dress Like Your Mother ".

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

* " Ask " ( song ), a song by The Smiths

# " Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want " ( instrumental ) by The Dream Academy ( a cover of a song by The Smiths )

* In a song sung by Cilla Black and covered by The Smiths, " Work Is a Four-letter Word ," this phrase is used to describe work as obscene.

At the request of Hyrum Smith ( Joseph Smith's brother ), he twice sang the song " A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief " in Carthage Jail just before the Smiths were killed.

* The organization was mentioned in The Smiths ' song Half A Person.

* The former singer of The Smiths and solo artist Morrissey mentions each Kray brother by name in his song " The Last of the Famous International Playboys " saying, " Reggie Kray do you know my name?

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

* In 1983, British band The Smiths wrote a song " This Night Has Opened My Eyes " which contains the lyric " Wrap her up in the News Of The World / Dump her on a doorstep, girl ".

* Shakespeare's Sister ( song ), a song by The Smiths

Additionally, Coupland uses other Smiths lyrics and song titles within the book such as " Bigmouth Strikes Again ," " Hand in Glove ," and " The Queen Is Dead.

The title, a Smiths song title, was chosen because “ It's clearly descriptive of the book, but it's also a little salute to those points in my life when I was melting down to soundtracks provided by British gloom rockers .”

Doherty has expressed " Still Ill " by The Smiths as a song that means a lot to him, in an interview.

*" The Hand That Rocks the Cradle ", a song by The Smiths from The Smiths

Rusholme was mentioned in the song " Rusholme Ruffians " by The Smiths on their 1985 album Meat Is Murder.

The only thing they recorded during this time was the song " You're Gonna Need Someone On Your Side ", for the Smiths tribute album The World Still Won't Listen, with Hull on guitar and Putnam performing drums and vocals.

" Also, the Blur song " Death of a Party " from Blur is, according to some, a reply to the Smiths song " Death of a Disco Dancer ".

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.

Nicholson also appeared on the cover of Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now by The Smiths pop group.

The first, in January and February 1986, featured Bragg, Weller's band The Style Council, The Communards, Junior Giscombe, Lorna Gee and Jerry Dammers, and picked up guest appearances from Madness, Heaven 17, Bananarama, Prefab Sprout, Elvis Costello, Gary Kemp, Tom Robinson, Sade, The Beat, Lloyd Cole, The Blow Monkeys and The Smiths along the way.

Alison Moyet ( Alf ), The Art of Noise, The Assembly, The Associates, Aztec Camera, Big Country, Bon Jovi, The Boomtown Rats, Cardiacs, Cliff Richard, Cocteau Twins, The Cramps, Culture Club, Cyndi Lauper, The Damned, Dennis Brown with Sly & Robbie, Depeche Mode, Dexys Midnight Runners, Die Ärzte, Dire Straits, Divine, Stephen Duffy, Duran Duran, Echo & the Bunnymen, Vow Wow, Elvis Costello, The Fall, Fatal Charm, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Charged G. B. H., Gregory Isaacs & The Roots Radics, Gun Club, Hanoi Rocks, Heaven 17, Howard Jones, The Human League, Icicle Works, Iggy Pop, INXS, Judas Priest, Killing Joke, Level 42, Lloyd Cole & the Commotions, Madness, Madonna, Magnum, Meat Loaf, Motörhead, Ofra Haza, Paul Young, Pet Shop Boys, The Pretenders, The Proclaimers, Propaganda, The Psychedelic Furs, The Rainmakers, Robert Palmer, R. E. M., Scraping Foetus off the Wheel, Silent Running, Simple Minds, Simply Red, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Soft Cell, Spear of Destiny, SPK, Squeeze, The Style Council, Tears for Fears, Terence Trent D ' Arby, Terry & Gerry, The Smiths, The Cult, The Cure, The Dream Academy, The Jam, The Mission, The Pogues, The Pretenders, The Stranglers, The Toy Dolls, Then Jericho, Thin Lizzy, Thomas Dolby, Tina Turner, Twisted Sister, U2, Ultravox, Voice of the Beehive, Tom Waits, Wall of Voodoo, Wham !, Whitney Houston, XTC, Yazoo, ZZ Top.

A photograph of Nicholson also appeared on the cover of The Smiths ' single " Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now " and " Barbarism Begins At Home ".

" Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now " is a single by The Smiths that reached # 10 on the UK Singles Chart in June 1984 before its inclusion on the compilation album, Hatful of Hollow.

They produced several tribute records, including the influential I'm Your Fan to Leonard Cohen in 1991, The Smiths is dead in 1996 and Monsieur Gainsbourg revisited in 2006.

They also made a live appearance at the Awards ceremony itself, playing new single ' I'm a Realist ' and a cover of ' Panic ' by the Smiths, featuring their new guitarist Johnny Marr ( of the aforementioned band ), who had been guesting with them throughout the tour.

* The Smiths ' eponymous album referenced Whalley Range in the song Miserable Lie, with the lyrics " What do we get for our trouble and pain?

The Smiths ' " How Soon Is Now?

* 1985 Meat Is Murder-The Smiths (" How Soon Is Now?

( He followed that by playing his last song, " How Soon Is Now " by The Smiths.

The original members appeared together on stage for the first time in nearly 13 years, performing a five-song set that ended with their cover of The Smiths ' " How Soon Is Now ?".

The group evolved from " The Smiths " ( not to be confused with later English band " The Smiths "), which featured two of the same members, and had attempted a hit single with " Now I Taste The Tears ", produced and arranged by Ron Budnik.

The music used for the final version of the museum sequence is an instrumental cover version of The Smiths ' " Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want ", performed by The Dream Academy.

References to ' By Grand Central Station ' are littered throughout Smiths songs such as ' What She Said ', ' London ', ' Well I Wonder ', and ' Shakespeare's Sister '.

They are said to have reunited on a forthcoming album, Angels and Fools, by Gabriel's unsigned band, The Believers, on the track " Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want ", a cover version of the song by The Smiths.

What is known is that the inclusion of " The Draize Train " as the twelfth track gives the listener a sense of the rhythm and pacing of a Smiths show, as the band typically played an instrumental while Morrissey took a quick break backstage before returning to belt out the electrifying set-closers.

* While Josie and Sam are dancing, the song " Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want " from the 1984 album " Hatful Of Hollow " by The Smiths can be heard in the background.

When Andy is having a bad time at the Ivy restaurant and leaves Maggie on her own, the Smiths song " Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want " can be heard.

The Smiths, whose single " This Charming Man " is covered on this album, also feature material from the film using a production still of Terence Stamp as the cover art for their 1985 single " What Difference Does It Make?