Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
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| “Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me” | |||||
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| Single by The Smiths from the album Strangeways, Here We Come |
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| Released | December 7, 1987 | ||||
| Format | 7", 12", MC | ||||
| Recorded | Spring 1987 | ||||
| Genre | Alternative rock | ||||
| Length | 3:11 | ||||
| Label | Rough Trade Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Johnny Marr Morrissey |
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| Producer | Morrissey, Johnny Marr and Stephen Street | ||||
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"Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" is a song by The Smiths. It was released as a single in December 1987, reaching #30 in the UK Singles Chart.
It was the group's final single (barring re-issues) and was the last of three singles from the band's album Strangeways, Here We Come. The song was edited for the seven-inch single release, losing the piano introduction found on the parent album. The 12-inch single release contains the full-length version.
The cover of the single features Billy Fury.
At different times Johnny Marr, Morrissey and David Bowie have cited this as their favourite Smiths song.
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[edit] Covers
Grant-Lee Phillips covered this song for his eighties covers album Nineteeneighties.
Alternative rockers Low also covered this song on the compilation A Lifetime of Temporary Relief: 10 Years of B-Sides and Rarities. In the booklet, the band describes it as "another cover that some may sneer at. After this, nothing is sacred." The Low version is much more sparse in instrumentation but remains vivid.
A cover by Eurythmics appears on the 2005 "Deluxe Edition Reissue" of their 1989 album We Too Are One. A bootleg copy of the band performing the song live during their Peace tour was circulated on Internet filesharing networks in the early 2000s, although the studio version was recorded in 2004.
[edit] Track listing
All tracks written by Morrissey and Johnny Marr.
[edit] 7": Rough Trade / RT200 (UK)
- "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" (single edit)
- "Rusholme Ruffians" (John Peel session version)
[edit] 12": Rough Trade / RTT200 (UK)
- "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" (full-length version)
- "Rusholme Ruffians" (John Peel session version)
- "Nowhere Fast" (John Peel session version)
[edit] Etchings on vinyl
UK 7" and 12": "THE RETURN OF THE SUBMISSIVE SOCIETY" (X) STARRING SHERIDAN WHITESIDE / "THE BIZARRE ORIENTAL VIBRATING PALM DEATH"(X)STARRING SHERIDAN WHITESIDE
Sheridan Whiteside is one of Morrissey's pseudonyms.
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