Friday, July 27, 2012

THE SMITHS ON BRITISH TELLY (Part 19)


Last week's posting featured one of two songs performed on BBC2's Oxford Road Show in February 1985.  The other song that the band mimed to that night was an as yet unreleased single:-


Just as well they did perform it on ORS as its relatively poor showing in the charts prevented a Top of The Pops appearance.

Here's a highly unusual cover version from Spain-

mp3 : Maydrim - Shakespeare's Sister

Just dance.

1 comment:

MKV said...

Always amazes me how reserved British audiences were when the Smiths were at these live TV 'commercial' events. The whole concept of pre-recording a live track to lip sync didn't things for the matter, at least The Smiths gave a bang-up preformance during this audacious experience.