What Difference Does It Make?
- What Difference Does It Make?
Infobox Single
Name = What Difference Does It Make?
Artist = The Smiths
from Album = The Smiths
Released = January 16 1984
Format =
Recorded = Late 1983
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 3:49
Label = Rough Trade
Writer = Johnny Marr Morrissey
Producer = John Porter
Video director =
Certification =
Reviews =
Last single = "This Charming Man"
(1983)
This single = "What Difference Does It Make?"
(1984)
Next single = "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" (1984)Extra album cover
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Background = khaki
Lower caption = Alternate cover featuring Morrissey
"What Difference Does It Make?" is a 1984 single by British band The Smiths. The single version can be found on the band's self-titled debut album "The Smiths". A different version recorded for the John Peel Show on BBC Radio One is featured on the compilation album "Hatful of Hollow". The single cover is a still from the film "The Collector", based on the novel by John Fowles. Originally Terrence Stamp denied permission for the still to be used, and some pressings featured lead singer Morrissey in a re-enacted scene. In the re-enactment Morrissey is holding a glass of milk, as opposed to a chloroform pad in the original, a joke referencing the fact that many fans had asked for the name of the film with the actor holding a glass of milk.Fact|date=June 2008 Eventually, however, Stamp changed his mind, and the covers featuring Morrissey are now very rare and collectible.
Morrissey has stated on more than one occasion that "What Difference Does It Make?" is among his least-favourite Smiths songs. [ [http://foreverill.com/disc/whatdif.htm Critical Discography - What Difference Does It Make? ] ] However, it became one of the band's first significant chart hits, peaking at #12 in the UK.
Track listing
7": Rough Trade / RT146 (UK)
# "What Difference Does It Make? [single edit] "
# "Back to the Old House"
* in original green sleeve
12": Rough Trade / RTT146 (UK)
# "What Difference Does It Make?"
# "Back to the Old House"
# "These Things Take Time"
* also released on CD Rough Trade RTT146CD (1988)
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