“But don’t forget the songs
That made you cry
And the songs that saved your life…”
Cover photo credit: Peter Ashworth
Recently Added:
Mojo – August 2004
“All Back To My Place”, a questionnaire from the August 2004 issue of Mojo magazine.
NME – 26 March 1983
Jim Shelley’s positive review of The Smiths’ 4 February 1983 performance at the Hacienda.
Q – December 1989
“Interview done by Mat Snow “Along Again Naturally” / “The Soft Touch”. Photos by Steve Double and Kevin Cummins. Topics: shaving, the occult and religion, collaborators Langer and Winstanley, self management, court cases with ex-Smiths, pop music, Blackbox, the Wolverhampton show, raves and drugs, musical tastes, changing audiences, Bette Davis, fame and success, the future…
Smash Hits Yearbook – 1985
Smash Hits’ 1985 Yearbook. Included is a 20 question questionnaire with Morrissey (Photo credit: Peter Ashworth). and an excerpt of Johnny Marr talking about his sunglasses. (Photo credit: Paul Slattery).
Uncut – March 2007
“Stop me if you’ve heard this one before” A short article about interviewing Johnny Marr and Morrissey, with excerpts from the Johnny Marr interview at the end. Johnny talks about first meeting Morrissey and the first Smiths recordings.
Star Hits – June 1985
A list of “facts” and quotes about The Smiths, with some errors or exaggerations.
Q – November 2001
A 15 question questionnaire for Q’s 15th anniversary.
GoFundMe to cover website costs
Hello friends, Some of you reached out offering suggestions or wanted to help out with the website cost to keep the site up. For those who would like to help out, I created a GoFundMe page for donations for the website plan/hosting cost. Here is the link: https://gofund.me/4b4803ba Thank you all for supporting me and…
Goodbye, And Thank You.
Update: Thank you all for your donations! Illness As Art has been renewed, and I will set aside some time to upload some new scans in these next few weeks. I can no longer afford the yearly renewal of Illness As Art, so it will only be up until August 16, unless I can raise…
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