The Impact of the Smiths on British Music

The music was jangly pop with its roots clearly in the fifties and sixties. Morrisy surrounded himself with fresh flowers, and he often wore a clunky fifties era hearing aid for some kind of aesthetic effect. The stuff that he sang about hand and glove was clearly about homosexuality. Another song called reel around the fountain was about child molestation. Their live gigs featured a gay gogo dancer.