Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me

Infobox Single
Name = Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me


Artist = The Smiths
from Album = Strangeways, Here We Come
Released = December 7 1987
Format = 7", 12", MC
Recorded = Spring 1987
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 3:11
Label = Rough Trade Records
Writer = Johnny Marr
Morrissey
Producer = Morrissey, Johnny Marr and Stephen Street
Last single = "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish"
(1987)
This single = "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me"
(1987)
Next single = "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before"
(1987)

"Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" is a song by The Smiths. It was released as a single in December 1987, reaching #30 in the UK Singles Chart.

It was the group's final single (barring re-issues) and was the last of three singles from the band's album "Strangeways, Here We Come". The song was edited for the seven-inch single release, losing the piano introduction found on the parent album. The 12-inch single release contains the full-length version.

The cover of the single features Billy Fury.

At different times Johnny Marr and Morrissey have cited this as their favourite Smiths song.

Covers

Swedish rock band Weeping Willows used to finish their concerts with this song, the musicians leaving the stage one by one during the extended outro until just the keyboardist was left on stage. As with most of their covers the song has never been recorded for release.

Grant-Lee Phillips covered this song for his eighties covers album "Nineteeneighties".

Alternative rockers Low also covered this song on the compilation "". In the booklet, the band describes it as "another cover that some may sneer at. After this, nothing is sacred." The Low version is much more sparse in instrumentation but remains vivid.

A cover by Eurythmics appears on the 2005 "Deluxe Edition Reissue" of their 1989 album "We Too Are One". A bootleg copy of the band performing the song live during their "Peace" tour was circulated on Internet filesharing networks in the early 2000s, although the studio version was recorded in 2004.

Track listing

All tracks written by Morrissey and Johnny Marr.

7": Rough Trade / RT200 (UK)

# "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" "(single edit)"
# "Rusholme Ruffians" "(John Peel session version)"

12": Rough Trade / RTT200 (UK)

# "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" "(full-length version)"
# "Rusholme Ruffians" "(John Peel session version)"
# "Nowhere Fast" "(John Peel session version)"

Etchings on vinyl

UK 7" and 12":"THE RETURN OF THE SUBMISSIVE SOCIETY" (X) STARRING SHERIDAN WHITESIDE /"THE BIZARRE ORIENTAL VIBRATING PALM DEATH"(X)STARRING SHERIDAN WHITESIDE

Sheridan Whiteside is one of Morrissey's pseudonyms.