The Queen is Dead is a song performed by the English rock band The Smiths. Lyrically, the song severely attacks Queen Elizabeth II and the entire British royal family. In a 1986 interview that Morrissey had with NME, he spoke about the song, saying that he initially didn’t want to attack the British monarchy in the aggressive way he did, but did all the same because of how sad life had become with the presence of the monarchy in England. He added that the whole idea of the Royal Family being an important institution was like a “hideous joke”. Away from the royal family, the lyrics of the song also briefly attacked pubs and churches in England, referring to the pubs as entities that wreck and sap your body and the church as an entity whose primary mission is to grab your money.
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- The Queen Is Dead was written by guitarist Johnny Marr and singer Morrissey.
- Speaking to NME, Johnny Marr said of the song as one whose sound was shaped by the works of American rock bands The Stooges and The Velvet Underground. According to Marr, he wanted to create a sound that had in it the aggression of the works of “Detroit garage bands”.
- The song title, which is also the same as the title of The Smiths’ 1986 third studio album (The Queen Is Dead)on which the song appears, was derived from the 1964 highly controversial novel titled Last Exit To Brooklyn by American writer Hubert Selby.
- The song is the first track on the album The Queen Is Dead, and has a total length of 6 minutes and 24 seconds.
- There is a brief sound bite at the beginning of the song, in which a woman can be heard singing the famous music hall song Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty – a song that was very popular during World War I. The sound bite is from the 1962 British drama film The L-Shaped Room starring Tom Bell and Leslie Caron. The woman singing Take Me To Old Blighty is the late Australian-born British actress and singer Cicely Courtneidge.
- The theme of the song makes it one of the most controversial songs ever written in the entire history of British music.