Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me

"Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me"
Single by The Smiths
from the album Strangeways, Here We Come
Released December 7, 1987
Format 7", 12", MC
Recorded Spring 1987
Genre Alternative rock
Length 5:02 (album version)
3:12 (single edit)
Label Rough Trade Records
Writer(s) Johnny Marr
Morrissey
Producer Morrissey, Johnny Marr and Stephen Street
The Smiths singles chronology
"I Started Something I Couldn't Finish"
(1987)		 "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me"
(1987)		 "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before"
(1987)

"Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" is a song by The Smiths. It was released as a single in December 1987, reaching #30 in the UK Singles Chart.

It was the group's final single (barring re-issues) and was the last of three singles from the band's album Strangeways, Here We Come. The song was edited for the seven-inch single release, losing the piano introduction found on the parent album. The 12-inch single release contains the full-length version.

The cover of the single features Billy Fury.

At different times Johnny Marr and Morrissey have cited this as their favourite Smiths song.

Contents

Covers

Swedish rock band Weeping Willows used to finish their concerts with this song, the musicians leaving the stage one by one during the extended outro until just the keyboardist was left on stage. As with most of their covers the song has never been recorded for release.

Grant-Lee Phillips covered this song for his eighties covers album Nineteeneighties.

Alternative band Low also covered the song, initially as a single, and later included it on their A Lifetime of Temporary Relief: 10 Years of B-Sides and Rarities. In the booklet, the band describes it as "another cover that some may sneer at. After this, nothing is sacred."

A cover by Eurythmics appears on the 2005 "Deluxe Edition Reissue" of their 1989 album We Too Are One. A bootleg copy of the band performing the song live during their Peace tour was circulated on Internet filesharing networks in the early 2000s, although the studio version was recorded in 2004.

André 3000 from OutKast once stated that he wished he had written this song.[1]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Morrissey and Johnny Marr. 

7" RT200
No. Title Length
1. "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" (single edit) 3:12
2. "Rusholme Ruffians" (John Peel session version) 4:04
12" RTT200
No. Title Length
1. "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" (full-length version) 5:04
2. "Rusholme Ruffians" (John Peel session version) 4:04
3. "Nowhere Fast" (John Peel session version) 2:39
CD RTT200CD
No. Title Length
1. "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" (full-length version) 5:04
2. "Rusholme Ruffians" (John Peel session version) 4:04
3. "Nowhere Fast" (John Peel session version) 2:39
4. "William, It Was Really Nothing" (John Peel session version) 2:04

Etchings on vinyl

UK 7" and 12": "THE RETURN OF THE SUBMISSIVE SOCIETY" (X) STARRING SHERIDAN WHITESIDE / "THE BIZARRE ORIENTAL VIBRATING PALM DEATH"(X)STARRING SHERIDAN WHITESIDE

Sheridan Whiteside is one of Morrissey's pseudonyms, taken from the protagonist of the play The Man Who Came to Dinner by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; that character was in turn based on dramatic critic and raconteur Alexander Woollcott.

References

  1. ^ http://www.mtv.com/bands/o/outkast/news_feature_031031/
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