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The Hand That Rocks The Cradle

Certain Songs #2282: The Smiths – “The Hand That Rocks The Cradle”

January 31, 2022 by Jim Connelly

Album: The Smiths
Year: 1984

. . .

“Ceiling shadows shimmy by”

In one of the great origin stories of any band, The Smiths formed when Johnny Marr knocked on the door of a guy he didn’t really know, Steven Morrissey, and basically said “here I am, let’s make records!”

That meeting was brokered by a mutual friend, and while Morrissey & Marr had met briefly before — at a Patti Smith concert of all things — they didn’t know how much they had in common until they started playing records for each other. In both of their autobiographies, they each describe the connection as instant and life-changing.

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