Daniel Merriweather Songs - Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before, Red, Cash in My Pocket, Change, Impossible (Paperback)

Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: Stop Me if You Think You've Heard This One Before, Red, Cash in My Pocket, Change, Impossible. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before" is a 1987 song by The Smiths. The Smiths' song, written by the usual combination of Morrissey and Johnny Marr, came out on the group's 1987 album Strangeways, Here We Come. The song was originally supposed to be released as a single and a music video was filmed, featuring scenes of the group-iconic Salford Lads Club and surrounding areas being bicycled through by the lads and friends. Because of a reference to "plan a mass murder" in one lyric it was banned from airplay by the BBC because of the then recent Hungerford massacre, so the band decided not to release it in the UK, however it was released in various other regions including North America, Europe, Australasia and Japan . "Stop Me ..." was subsequently included on the compilation album Stop Me and on The Very Best of The Smiths. The cover of the album portrayed British actor and singer Murray Head. In 2007, the song was re-composed with additional lyrics from the song "You Keep Me Hangin' On" by The Supremes by British-born New York DJ, Mark Ronson using the voice of Daniel Merriweather as the lead. Merriweather admitted in an interview with The Guardian that he was not very familiar with "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One" before he recorded Mark Ronson's revised version. He explained: "Mark said, 'I want you to sing on this - it's my favourite Smiths song, ' so I listened to it. I'd heard it once before, but I was never a Smiths fan. But I thought it was beautiful." The song itself stems from five interpretations of pre-existing remixes known as Chicke...http: //booksllc.net/?id=1093221