Morrissey is encouraging Smiths fans to get the ‘Queen Is Dead‘ title-track back into the charts at the end of this month to mark the classic album’s 30th anniversary.
In a post on fansite True To You, the band’s former singer has claimed negotiations with both Warner in the UK and Sire in the US to mark the occasion with a special re-release have hit a ‘brick wall’, and therefore he’s urging followers to go straight to source during the final week of May in a bid to get the song into the charts regardless.
“Bleeding to death, I therefore have the restless gall to ask of you that, should you have 99 cents/pence, that you purchase ‘The Queen Is Dead’ track in the final week of May, thus possibly edging it into the corner of everyone’s ear in the UK Top 100 – if only to let them know that we are still here and fully aware of the fox-fur on the hall-stand,” he writes.