The Smiths - Strangeways Here We ComeMorrissey and Marr laboured hard over the songs, working to expand the band's sound within their boundaries. In doing so they created the classic tracks "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish," "Girlfriend In A Coma," "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before," and "I Won't Share You".

The recording catapulted Chando Graciosa to stardom

It lends the record fluidity

played by William Hartnell

I was happy to have - for the first time in my adulthood - a place to close the door

with a beautiful sound

pianist Bengt Hallberg

Yet there’s a freshness to A La Sala’s instrumental interactivity

and this new edition remastered by Andrew Batt from the master tapes and featuring an introduction by Dana herself will likely become just as collectable as the original

which reached # 2 on the UK singles chart

and I needed to laugh and have fun and be a little less serious about the recording process in general

airy acoustic drums

material that was glued and sealed – each purchaser had to open the sleeve to discover which colour vinyl they had bought