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THE SMITHS - PANIC, 1985.
Design by Morrissey, art co-ordination Jo Slee,
layout Caryn Gough.

Original Rough Trade promo poster
24"x11.5"

The cover star is Richard Bradford, from the 1967 ATV series 'Man In A Suitcase', in which he played a dismissed CIA agent working for hire in London, living out of his suitcase.
Beautiful colour combinations


£175.00 conservation framed.



THE SMITHS - THE SMITHS, 1984.
Design by Morrissey, art co-ordination Jo Slee,
layout Caryn Gough.

Original Rough Trade promo poster
24"x11.5"

The cover star is Joe Dallesandro from the 1968 film 'Andy Warhol's FLESH', directed by Paul Morrissey. Morrissey drew again from Warhol's misfit 'superstar' crowd for 'Sheila takes A Bow'.


£200.00 conservation framed.


THE SMITHS - RANK, 1988.
Design by Morrissey, art co-ordination Jo Slee,
layout Caryn Gough.

Original Rough Trade promo poster
24"x11.5"

The cover star on this poster's gorgeous silvered finish (which delighted Morrissey) is actress Alexandra Bastedo, best from TV's 'The Champions'. The picture is taken from John D Green's best selling 1967 photo book with the excellent period-piece title 'Birds of Britain'.


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THE SMITHS - STRANGEWAYS HERE WE COME, 1987.
Design by Morrissey, art co-ordination Jo Slee,
layout Caryn Gough.

Original Rough Trade promo poster
24"x11.5"

Here the 'Cover Star' is actor Richard Davalos in 'East Of Eden', chosen after Harvey Keitel declined the honour.


£160.00 conservation framed.


THE SMITHS - ASK, 1986.
Design by Morrissey, art co-ordination Jo Slee,
layout Caryn Gough.

Original Rough Trade promo poster
24"x11.5"

Cover star is Yootha Joyce ('George And Mildred') on the set of the 1965 film 'Catch Us If You Can', John Boorman's first feature, conceived as a cash-in follow up to 'A Hard Day's Night' with the Dave Clark Five.



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THE SMITHS - SHEILA TAKE A BOW, 1987.
Design by Morrissey, art co-ordination Jo Slee,
layout Caryn Gough.

Original Rough Trade promo poster
24"x11.5"

The cover star here is Andy Warhol's transvestite Factory 'Superstar' Candy Darling, in Warhol's 1971 film 'Women In Revolt'. Born James Lawrence Slattery, Candy was memorably immortalised in Lou Reed's 'Walk On The Wild Side'.


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THE SMITHS - BIGMOUTH STRIKES AGAIN, 1986.
Design by Morrissey, art co-ordination Jo Slee,
layout Caryn Gough.

Original Rough Trade promo poster
24"x11.5"

This rare photograph of James Dean was taken in 1948 by his friend Nelva Jean Thomas in his hometown Fairmount, Indiana. Dean is riding his first motorcycle, a 1947 Czech Whizzer, bought for him by his uncle Marcus.


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THE SMITHS - LAST NIGHT I DREAMT THAT SOMEBODY LOVED ME, 1987.
Design by Morrissey, art co-ordination Jo Slee,
layout Caryn Gough.

Original Rough Trade promo poster
24"x11.5"

The cover star is 1960's British rock'n'roll great Billy Fury. The song's line "last night was meant for love" is the title of a Fury single. Morrissey stated that Fury was one of the singers he had in mind in the vituperative lyric to 'PAINT A VULGAR PICTURE' "At the record company meeting/On their hands - a dead star/And oh, the plans they weave/And oh, the sickening greed."

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THE SMITHS - SHOPLIFTERS OF THE WORLD, 1987.
Design by Morrissey, art co-ordination Jo Slee,
layout Caryn Gough.

Original Rough Trade promo poster
24"x11.5"

Morrissey's abiding love of classic American 50's style must have made this image irrestible - Elvis Presley photographed by his hairdresser James R. Reid in 1955, his first ever press shot.

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THE SMITHS - MEAT IS MURDER, 1985.
Design by Morrissey, art co-ordination Jo Slee,
layout Caryn Gough.

Original Rough Trade promo poster
24"x11.5"

Morrissey took the famous image of a determinedly non-Aquarian young Vietnam 'grunt' (from Emile de Antonio's 1969 anti-war film 'In the Year of the Pig') whose helmet bore the words "Make War Not Love" and replaced them with a heartful message of his own.

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THE SMITHS - THE WORLD WON'T LISTEN, 1987.
Design by Morrissey, art co-ordination Jo Slee,
layout Caryn Gough.

Original Rough Trade promo poster
24"x11.5"

Jurgen Volmer's photographs of Hamburg's young Rock scene in the early 60s - most famously of the Beatles - won him Lennon's and McCartney's enduring admiration, and clearly that of Morrissey too. The pictures were published in his 1981 book 'Rock'n'Roll Times: The Style and Spirit of the Early Beatles and Their First Fans'.

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