“I Won't Share You” by The Smiths

"I Won't Share You" is on Strangeways, Here We Come, the fourth studio album by the Smiths and their last, which Rough Trade released in September 1987, a few months after the band had fallen apart. As on all their albums, Johnny Marr wrote the music and Morrissey wrote and sang the words. Here Marr plays both guitar and piano, with Andy Rourke on bass and Mike Joyce on drums, and he produced it with Morrissey and Stephen Street.

The sessions ran in early 1987 at the Wool Hall studio in Bath, Somerset, to see out the band's contract with Rough Trade, and the peace inside the band mostly held while they lasted. Marr quit soon after they wrapped. The album stretched their sound with a wider spread of instruments and a more experimental streak, and all four members have since named it their best.

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