“Well I Wonder” by The Smiths

"Well I Wonder" came out on February 11, 1985, as part of Meat Is Murder, the Smiths' second studio album on Rough Trade. Johnny Marr wrote the music and Morrissey the words, and the band produced it themselves, with Stephen Street, who had come into their orbit during the busy months after the debut, engineering.

Marr plays both guitar and piano on it, Andy Rourke is on bass, Mike Joyce on drums, and Morrissey sings. The album was made between the middle of 1984 and that December, at the Fallout Shelter and Jam Studios in London and Ridge Farm in Surrey, with Marr sketching much of the material at his flat in Earl's Court. Around this song, the record took aim at meat-eating and corporal punishment and brooded on alienation, and it became the Smiths' only studio album to top the UK chart.

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