“I AM GRATEFUL TO THE RIFF GODS!”
“THE HEADMASTER RITUAL”
THE SMITHS
(MEAT IS MURDER, 1985)
Classic Smiths, built around Marr’s cascading guitar lines
“I’d had the intro around for a few years, but I’d been playing it slower. I thought it sounded like Joni Mitchell! When we started Meat Is Murder, I reached back into my store of riffs, sped it up and the rest of it poured out.”
