Take me out tonight where there's music and there's people and they're young and alive

Morrissey is playing tonight at Carnegie Hall - I have been waiting for this moment for my entire life. Tonight will be my first time seeing him perform.

Oscillate Wildly is my favorite Smiths song - there is something about the melody that instantly brings me back to a certain spring and summer. This instrumental track says so much, without any words. This lack of obvious meaning or lyrical context make it about whatever I want it to be about.

My friend Evelyn introduced me to The Smiths music. I don't have any older brothers or sisters, and my local "Alternative" radio station WDRE 92.7 rarely played The Smiths or Morrissey. The most peaceful place for me was walking , listening to my Smiths tape in my walkman. The Smiths are literally are the soundtrack to my teen years.

I for one couldnt be happier that Morrissey's music has lately been embraced by a wider demographic. My experience with the music has always been solitary, so I am elated to be in a hall full of people who all have their own personal relationship with Morrissey.

The Smiths used a still photograph of Joe Dallesandro, from the film Flesh as the cover of their eponymous debut album:

Diana Dors

Diana Dors on the cover of The Smiths 1995 compilation album, Singles:


Diana Dors in the 1956 film Yield to the Night:

Diana Dors was born on this day in 1931.

Diana Dors (October 23, 1931 – May 4, 1984) was an English actress and sex symbol. She was born Diana Mary Fluck in Swindon, England. She was considered the English equivalent of the blonde bombshells of Hollywood. She also had significant acting ability, which was destined never to be fully utilised (most of her later work is made up of sex-themed comedies that featured scenes near to soft-core pornography). Her success was such that, aged 20, she was the youngest registered owner of a Rolls Royce in the UK. Her best work as an actress may have been when she played a murderess in the 1956 film Yield to the Night.

Dors left a mark on popular culture; the "50s blonde bombshell look" popularized by Dors and, in the US, by "The Three 'Ms'" Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren and Marilyn Monroe.

A year or two before The Smiths catalogue was sold to Warner Brothers, a still of Diana Dors from the film Yield to the Night (1956) was considered by Morrissey for a Smiths 'greatest hits' compilation then being prepared by their record label at the time, Rough Trade.

That greatest-hits album never materialized because the rights to The Smiths catalogue were sold to Warner Brothers Records. Using Morrissey's concept, Warner Brothers used the Diana Dors image one year later as the cover of the final Smiths reissue.