“Nowhere Fast” by The Smiths

"Nowhere Fast" turns up on Meat Is Murder, the Smiths' second album, which Rough Trade put out in February 1985 and which became the only studio record of theirs to top the UK Albums Chart. It came out of sessions stretched from mid-1984 to December across London's Fallout Shelter and Jam Studios and Ridge Farm in Surrey, with Johnny Marr working up many of the demos in his Earl's Court flat.

Morrissey wrote the words and Marr the music, and here Marr plays piano as well as guitar, with Andy Rourke on bass and Mike Joyce on drums. The band produced it themselves, and Stephen Street engineered, carrying on a partnership that began in the months of non-album singles and Hatful of Hollow. It belongs to the Smiths' most combative stretch, the record where their politics marched right out front.

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