Hand In Glove

A-Side: Hand In Glove
B-Side: Handsome Devil (live recording)

Record label: Rough Trade RT 131
Producer: The Smiths

Released: 14/05/83
Purchased: 10/12/83

Just as was ready to slip the noose around the quite limp neck of that wicked child molester Pop Muzak, The Smiths ride up, “Hand In Glove”, to knock me from my own gallows. With a paucity of effects they seem to pierce the cool of a Julian Cope/Teardrop sensibility with a certain vigour that only we young ones can adopt. Morrissey’s vocal invocations just RISE above the fuzz and treble. Truly a new Bunnyman. (NME, 11/06/83)

“Hand In Glove” recorded at Strawberry Studios, March 1983
“Handsome Devil” recorded live at The Hacienda, Manchester, 1983

Line-up:
Morrissey (voice)
Johnny Marr (guitars and harmonica)
Mike Joyce (drums)
Andy Rourke (bass)