It was released on the B-side of the single "William, It Was Really Nothing" in 1984[3] and later featured on the compilation albums Hatful of Hollow and Louder Than Bombs.
[5] Marr has also noted that the music was an attempt to "capture the ... spookiness and sense of yearning" in Del Shannon's "The Answer to Everything", a song his parents played for him as a child.
[6] The band's label, Rough Trade, initially was concerned about the song's short length.
[9] An instrumental version of this cover was used in the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off in 1986, during a scene in an art museum where Cameron is viewing the pointilist painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte".
[8] Though Morrissey originally indicated his dislike for this version, he later used it as intermission music during late period Smiths concerts.