Sinister: three, six, nine minutes alight

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I was just looking at Johnny Rogan's contribution to that series of livres 
de poche about the total oeuvre of a band. Christ, it must have been the 
easiest book to write in the whole history of writing. Anyway, loads of 
second-hand info, but I found a thing or two I'd never seen before about 
'The Queen Is Dead'.

1. Marr played a 'one-take solo' which left him 'shaking'. Is the solo on 
the record? Maybe; maybe he means the instrumental journey at the end. Would 
you have been shaking after playing it? I would.

2. He was 'fantastic', playing 'blindingly... he went on for 8 or 9 
minutes', says Stephen Street. 'There was loads more on the 24-track but it 
seemed a bit long so we cut it down'. 8 or 9 minutes as against the 6:23 (?) 
of the record; or 8 or 9 minutes extra, unused material? Should it have been 
cut? Should an uncut or recut version be released? I think so. I mean, the 
master tapes of all these old records all still out there somewhere: witness 
'Classic Albums'. Someone has got to make a programme on this and play *the 
entire 9-minute guitar track*.

Agreed?

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