Jack Lowden as Stephen Patrick Morrissey Mark Gill, the director of England Is Mine, an unusual biopic of the anything but usual vocal/lyrical half of those now famous Smiths’ songs, explains why for him there was only one way to tell this story. HERE’S the problem for writer/director Mark Gill in one off-camera moment before this interview even starts. It’s the morning after a heavy snow dump in England’s north west and Gill’s partner is wondering if she should attempt to ge

As I said in an earlier post, I had to pick 50 songs from 50 years to mark a landmark that we don’t need to go over again here thank you very much (cos I still feel like the 13-year-old and I sure act like him often enough). Only one song per year, one song per artist, each with some significance for me. There was a CD, so along with the songs these are excerpts from the liner notes. (Of course there were liner notes.) The first tranche takes us from 1965 to 1989. 1965: The