This is Mike’s open-hearted story of what it was like to play the drums in The Smiths.
Throughout his honest and witty reflections, Mike answers the question ‘where did it all go right?’ - a question he and bassist Andy Rourke, with whom he had a deep and very special relationship, used to often ask each other. Rather than simply retelling the well-documented iconic moments of the history of The Smiths, in The Drums, Mike conveys ‘the feeling’ of his time in the band. His off-piste, frank perspective allows him to recontextualise the canonised stories with beautifully vulnerable, human insight.
His story will resonate with the millions of Smiths fans who will rejoice in joining Mike in his love and admiration for the band that changed lives and provided such rich inspiration to the musicians that followed them. Mike’s honest, entertaining and deeply human memoir truly conveys what it felt like to be a member of The Smiths when you are the self-confessed biggest Smiths fan in the world.
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