“That song came about when I was round my parents’ house one Sunday evening. I started playing this riff on a crappy guitar I kept there. Angie – who’s now my wife – was with me and she kept saying, ‘that’s really good!’

I was panicking because I had nothing to record it on, so we decided to drive to Morrissey’s, because he had a tape recorder. I sat in the back of the car playing the riff over and over so I wouldn’t forget it. (…) I was just hoping Morrissey would be in. (…) He let me in and I played the riff and he said ‘That’s very good’.

About five days later we were rehearsing and Morrissey wanted to play the song. When we heard the vocals to that we were all like, wow… From then on it was always going to be the first single.” — Johnny Marr