Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me

"Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" is a song by the English rock band the Smiths. Released in December 1987, it reached No. 30 in the UK Singles Chart. It was the last of three UK singles from the band's fourth and final studio album, Strangeways, Here We Come. The album version contains a one-minute and 55-second introduction, consisting of piano playing against a backdrop of crowd noises from the miners' strike of 1984–85.[2] The 7" single release does not include the introduction, while the 12" single does.

"Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me"
Single by The Smiths
from the album Strangeways, Here We Come
Released7 December 1987
RecordedSpring 1987
StudioThe Wool Hall, Beckington, Somerset
GenreAlternative rock
Length5:02 (album version)
3:12 (single edit)
LabelRough Trade
Songwriter(s)Johnny Marr, Morrissey
Producer(s)Morrissey, Johnny Marr, 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)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Morrissey and Johnny Marr.

7" RT200
No.TitleLength
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.TitleLength
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.TitleLength
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

Artwork and matrix message

The cover of the single featured a photograph of the 1950s and 1960s-era British singer Billy Fury.[3]

The British 7" and 12" vinyls contained the matrix message: "THE RETURN OF THE SUBMISSIVE SOCIETY" (X) STARRING SHERIDAN WHITESIDE/ "THE BIZARRE ORIENTAL VIBRATING PALM DEATH" (X) STARRING SHERIDAN WHITESIDE. Sheridan Whiteside was one of Morrissey's pseudonyms, taken from the protagonist of the play The Man Who Came to Dinner; that character was in turn based on dramatic critic and raconteur Alexander Woollcott and had been referenced in the etchings of the single "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish".

Charts
Chart Peak
position
Ireland (IRMA) 17
UK Singles (The Official Charts Company) 30

Covers

Grant-Lee Phillips covered this song for his 1980s 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 reissue of their 1989 album We Too Are One. A bootleg copy of the band performing the song live during their Peace tour appeared in the early 2000s, although the studio version was recorded in 2004.

Jann Arden also covered the song on her album, Uncover Me 2.

References
  1. "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me rating". Allmusic. Retrieved on 29 October 2012.
  2. https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/11/ranking-every-song-by-the-smiths-from-worst-to-best/full-post/
  3. https://www.nme.com/photos/the-smiths-the-stories-behind-all-27-of-their-provocative-album-and-single-sleeves/384620


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