(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Morrissey "wasn't impressed" with the unglamorous setting of one of The Smiths' album recordings.

The singer-and-songwriter was part of the popular British alternative band along with Johnny Marr, Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce.

The band, which broke up in 1987 after releasing four studio albums, took to a studio in 1985 to record a demo for The Boy with the Thorn In His Side. The song featured on the band's third album The Queen Is Dead, but was released as a single a few months before the album was released.

Andy has recalled the setting of the particular studio they recording the track in, and how frontman Morrissey was not amused by the situation.

"It was in the basement of a terraced house. The [owner] kept disappearing saying he had to talk to his accountant, then he came back stinking of whiskey. I don't think Morrissey was impressed; all the walls were made out of denim," he explained in an interview with NME.

Meat Is Murder was the band's only album to reach number one in the UK charts. Johnny has recalled the group's motivation after hitting the number one spot with the acclaimed record.

"We'd built up a momentum of success, but it did feel like a chapter was about to come to an end and it was necessary to start a new one. No-one had to tell us it was time to make the third album," he explained. "I knew that the next record had to be even more of a step up. It meant battening down the hatches. We never went to the pub. That culture didn't suit us, and in my case you couldn't smoke 15 joints in the pub." (C) Cover Media