I just found some video of The Smiths performing the song live in Madrid. I’m not sure when this performance was, although Morrissey notes it’s their new single, and “Shakespeare’s Sister” reached #26 on the British charts in March 1985, so it was probably sometime around then.
I thought that if you had an acoustic guitar, it meant that you were a protest singer. I can smile about it now, but at the time it was terrible…
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