THE FIRST EVER TVV CAPTION CONTEST

aka 'One Song by The Smiths....A Series for Saturdays (Part 45)'

The picture and idea has been supplied by Ctel of Acid Ted fame.  And it is he who will select the winner.  The prize??  Well, it is related to today's song...

mp3 : The Smiths - I Keep Mine Well Hidden

This was the last song that Morrissey and Marr wrote and recorded together and therefore marks the official end of the band after 5 years.  To quote Simon Goddard:-

After five years of poetry, grandeur, melodrama and sublimity, their final bow wasn't some profoundly melancholic torch song but a jaunty one minute 57 seconds music-hall knees-up - Sheila Take A Bow in miniature with added whistling.

Morrissey finished his vocal for this song on 19 May 1987 and it was the last time he spoke to his songwriting partner for many years.  Marr stayed on in the studio working with the other band members trying to salvage something from what he considered was a sub-standard session that the singer hadn't cared much about.  After flying to the USA a week later for some promotional duties, the guitarist returned to England and waited for a phone call that never came.  Within a few weeks a press statement let the world know via the NME that Marr had left The Smiths......not that Marr knew much about the press statement until he was confronted with questions about it, but nevertheless he soon confirmed that he had indeed quit (although it now is known he hadn't when the original statement had been issued).

The song was made available on the b-side of the 12" of Girlfriend In A Coma.  And going through the cupboard the other day I discovered I have two copies of this particular piece of vinyl released in August 1987.

And I'm prepared to give one away to whoever comes up with the best caption to the above photo.

All entries to thevinylvillain@hotmail.co.uk  Closing date is in three weeks time on Saturday 7 August.  We will then probably take a wee while to sort out the winner who will then be sent a mint copy of the single.  And you can enter from anywhere in the world..........Good luck.