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This article is about the album. For the television show episode, see The Queen Is Dead (Once Upon a Time).

The Queen Is Dead is the third studio album by English rock band the Smiths. Released on 16 June 1986 in the United Kingdom by Rough Trade Records, and on 23 June 1986 in the US by Sire Records, it spent 22 weeks on the UK Albums Chart, peaking at number two.[3] It also reached No. 70 on the US Billboard 200, and was certified Gold by the RIAA in late 1990. In 2009, Rolling Stone ranked The Queen Is Dead 218th on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[4] In 2013, British Magazine NME labeled The Queen Is Dead the greatest album of all time.[5]

The Queen Is Dead

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Studio album by The Smiths

Released

16 June 1986

Recorded

Winter 1985

Genre

Alternative rock post-punk[1] new wave[2]

Length

36:48

Label

Rough Trade

Producer

MorrisseyJohnny Marr

The Smiths chronology

Meat Is Murder

(1985)The Queen Is Dead

(1986)The World Won't Listen

(1987)

Singles from The Queen Is Dead

"The Boy with the Thorn in His Side (alternate mix)"

Released: 23 September 1985

"Bigmouth Strikes Again"

Released: 19 May 1986

"There Is a Light That Never Goes Out"

Released: 12 October 1992

Guitarist Johnny Marr wrote several songs that would later appear on The Queen Is Dead while the Smiths toured Britain in early 1985, working out song arrangements with bassist Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce during soundchecks.[6] The title of the album is from Hubert Selby Jr.'s 1964 novel Last Exit to Brooklyn.[7] . The album was produced by Morrissey and Marr, working predominantly with engineer Stephen Street, who had engineered the band's 1985 album Meat Is Murder.[8]