Read This: The stories behind all The Smiths’ album covers
The Smiths became known not only for Morrissey’s proto-emo lyrics and timeless melodies, but also the band’s refusal to use its members’ own images on the covers of nearly 30 albums and singles. When those albums and singles were released in the U.K. in the ’80s, many of those faces were probably already known to Smiths fans, but today’s young angsty teenagers can’t reasonably be expected to recognize the actress who played Elsie Tanner on Coronation Street for 25 years (her name is Pat Phoenix, and she’s on the cover of Shakespeare’s Sister).