I Know It’s Overrated: The Queen Is Dead Turns 40 (opens in new tab)

In the four decades since its release, The Smiths' The Queen Is Dead has repeatedly been hailed as the band's crowning achievement, and regularly features in lists of the greatest albums ever made. Lifelong Smiths fan Simon Price, however, is not so sure Let's pick up the mallet and the chisel right now, and carve this in white marble right at the very top: THE SMITHS ARE THE GREATEST ROCK & ROLL BAND WHO EVER LIVED. I've said it before, and I'll keep saying it until the day the breath leaves...