February 23, 1985 –
The Smiths scored their first UK No.1 album with Meat Is Murder on this date. The album’s sleeve uses a 1967 photograph of Marine Cpl. Michael Wynn in the Vietnam War, though with the wording on his helmet changed from “Make War Not Love” to “Meat Is Murder“.
The Smiths produced Meat Is Murder themselves, assisted only by engineer Stephen Street, whom they had first met on the session for Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now.
The Haus of Dcaligari 