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The Smiths

How Soon Is Now?

1984 · via The Smiths

The Smiths’ 1984 recording of “How Soon Is Now?” is the earliest release on file. Johnny Marr and Morrissey of The Smiths are credited as its writers. Also recorded by Morrissey (released 2004), Love Spit Love (released 1996) and t.A.T.u. (released 2002), among 178 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Marr and Morrissey wrote it for their own band, and t.A.T.u. picked it up in 2002. Play the two side by side and hear how far one song can travel from home.

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Credited writers: Johnny Marr and Morrissey.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1984.

Other recordings on file · first release year

178 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Johnny Marr and Morrissey wrote "How Soon Is Now?" for The Smiths. Which of these acts later cut their own recording of it?t.A.T.u.
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