| "The Smiths" | February/April 1984 | |
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Reel Around The Fountain You've Got Everything Now Miserable Lie Pretty Girls Make Graves The Hand That Rocks The Cradle This Charming Man * Still Ill Hand In Glove (remixed by John Porter) What Difference Does It Make? I Don't Owe You Anything Suffer Little Children UK CD [Rough Trade ROUGHCD61]
Additional information: A bonus 1-sided 7" of "This Charming Man" (RTOS136/08-10803) was given away with some copies of the Holland LP. View left. A red flexi featuring an interview done in October 1983 at Strawberry Studios during the recording of the album was given away with the first copies of the Japanese LP on Tokuma. View left. First Japanese CDs included bonus tracks "Hand In Glove" by Sandie Shaw (otherwise unavailable mix), "These Things Take Time", "This Charming Man" and "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now". The 2006 Japanese cd reissue is slipped inside a mini-replica of the original Tokuma Japan LP sleeve. Even the inner sleeve, obi and label are replicas of the ones from the original LP pressing. The pink vinyl, blue vinyl, yellow vinyl and red vinyl LP editions on Rough Trade/Transmedia are actually bootleg reproductions made in 2006 and 2007.
Artwork information: The UK cassette has a cropped portion of the LP and CD artwork.
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Promotion: Australia: Promotion was done at the time of the original release of this album with promo copies of the LP. These had the same content and artwork, except for the labels which were of the usual black and white 'hat man' type with promo-only warnings on them. The festival reissues from 1988 were promoted via stock copies of the LP with a promo sticker on the label. Brazil: Stock copies were stamped with promo warnings on the labels and the back of the sleeve. A 5-track various artists promo EP (21.092, #74) featuring the Manchester and London versions of "This Charming Man" was distributed in 1985 for promotion of this album, or perhaps of "Hatful Of Hollow". The record came slipped in a grey sleeve with green text. Canada: Gold-stamped copies of the stock LP were sent to radio and record stores for promotion. The promo 7" mentioned on the "What Difference Does It Make?" page served to promote this album as well as that single. A various artists promo cassette titled "Internationally Yours" (WEA IYC1984) and featuring "This Charming Man" was sent to radio. Germany: Rough Trade Deutschland took special care in promoting the Smiths' debut album over their territory by printing a limited (400 to 500) and numbered LP on multicoloured vinyl (RTD25). The record was usually slipped inside a generic die cut sleeve showing the label, on which the series number sticker was applied. It must be said that some copies were distributed inside the stock sleeve. The record usually came with a one-page or a three-page press release. Some copies included 2 promo postcards. Japan: Promotion of the original release was done via copies of the LP format with a white SAMPLE sticker on the sleeve and the usual extra 3-character promo text printed on the label. Promo cds for the 1990 and 1993 reissues (and perhaps the 1987 and 1995 as well) have a promo sticker on the case and promo text on the cds' inner ring. The promo cd for the 2006 reissue in LP-replica sleeves have a white and red promo sticker on the back and 'sample loaned' etched on the cd's inner ring. USA: Gold-stamped copies of the stock LP were sent to radio and record stores for promotion. The album was also promoted with the help of a 3-track 12" sampler (Sire, PRO-A-2136; view in left frame) which was distributed at the time of the album's release. The tracks on it were "What Difference Does It Make?", "This Charming Man" and "Reel Around The Fountain". The promo 7" mentioned on the "What Difference Does It Make?" page served to promote this album as well as that single. A press kit including a bio and a photo by Paul Cox was sent to radio and the relevent media.
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