The "Smiths": All Men Have Secrets

click here for more details, find new or used items	Tom Gallagher, Mike Campbell, Murdo Gillies New from £36.93 Used from £2.13 Pages: 256 (Paperback) ISBN: 0863698743 Pub: Virgin Books Pub date: 1995-09-17 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 283071

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'All Men Have Secrets' takes a different approach to the Smiths, and instead of analysing the music or the band the book instead tells the tales of how the band impacted the lives of the listeners, with almost every Morrissey/Marr song (plus 'Work is a Four-Letter Word' for some reason) getting it's own collection of anecdotes. It's a novel idea, but sadly the result is incredibly pedestrian and dull, as we are treated to hundreds of variations on mundane tales of students discovering the Smiths in the 80's, or how song 'x' means so much to a listener as it reminds them of the time they failed to get off with someone at the student disco. There is some mild interest picking out a couple of well-known names (Boz Boorer, Julia Riley) but otherwise the repetition makes this a struggle to read from cover to cover. The Smiths are an amazing band, and their songs do mean a great deal to many people - but sadly those personal reasons don't always translate well into interesting stories. One for the Smiths completeists only.

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