Roy's Keen

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"Roy's Keen"

Single by Morrissey
from the album Maladjusted
Released	6th October 1997 (UK)
Format	7", 12", CD, cassette
Genre	Rock
Length	3:36
Label	Island (UK)
Writer(s)	Morrissey, Alain Whyte
Producer(s)	Steve Lillywhite
Chart positions
#47 (UK)
Morrissey singles chronology
"Alma Matters" (1997)	"Roy's Keen" (1997)	"Satan Rejected My Soul" (1997)

"Roy's Keen"

Song by Morrissey
from the album Maladjusted
Released	August 11, 1997
Recorded	1997
Genre	Rock
Length	3:36
Label	Island (UK)
Writer(s)	Morrissey/Whyte
Producer(s)	Steve Lillywhite
Maladjusted track listing
"Maladjusted" "Alma Matters" "Ambitious Outsiders" "Trouble Loves Me" "Papa Jack" "Ammunition" "Wide To Receive" "Roy's Keen" "He Cried" "Sorrow Will Come In The End " "Satan Rejected My Soul"

"Roy's Keen" was a single by Morrissey released in October 1997. It was the second single to be taken from the Maladjusted album and was the first Morrissey single no to feature himself on the cover, instead a photograph of two boys taken by Roger Mayne on London Southam Street in the 1950s.

The single flopped, reaching only number 47 in the UK single chart. The failure to reach the top 40 meant that a recorded performance of the song of Top of the Pops didn't air until it was shown on Top of the Pops 2 many years later.

The title is an obvious pun of the name of former Nottingham Forest and Manchester United footballer Roy Keane - a fact Morrissey acknowledged during live performences of the song by changing the lyrics too "never seen a keener midfielder".