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• Morrissey in an interview with the actress Margi Clarke: "The thorn is the music industry and all these people who never believe what I said, tried to get rid of me, never played the records, so I think we've reached the stage where if they don't believe me now, will they ever believe me."
• This was the first Smiths single to be accompanied by a promotional video.
• The man on the cover of the single release is a photo of Truman Capote taken by Cecil Beaton in 1949 when the American author was in his 20s. According to Morrissey, when he put him on the cover a bandmate said, "is that Ernie Wise?" >>>

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• Being revolutionaries, The Smiths refused to make videos, but they eventually succumbed (appeasing their label, Rough Trade) to a performance promo for this song. Johnny Marr told Q magazine, "We said, if we're going to capitalize we will, under duress, allow you to interrupt this space we're in but we refuse to move more than one foot away from where we are right now, and hurry up."
  
  "We were punk rock in lots of ways. The video is utterly crap. We were young and wilfull and unique and single-minded. Even when we were wrong."