{"id":4060,"date":"2014-02-13T06:34:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T06:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/02\/13\/remastered-smiths-back-catalogue-hits-itunes\/"},"modified":"2014-02-13T06:34:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T06:34:15","slug":"remastered-smiths-back-catalogue-hits-itunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/02\/13\/remastered-smiths-back-catalogue-hits-itunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Remastered Smiths back catalogue hits iTunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/f\/ff\/SmithsPromoPhoto_TQID_1985.jpg\/250px-SmithsPromoPhoto_TQID_1985.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"220\" height=\"140\" \/><br \/>The Smiths back catalogue has been remastered for iTunes and made available globally from today (February 12) to mark the 30th anniversary of the band&#8217;s debut album. The Morrissey-fronted band released their self-titled debut in 1984 and to celebrate, Rhino have mastered all four of the Manchester act&#8217;s studio albums, &#8216;The Smiths&#8217;, &#8216;Meat Is Murder&#8217;, &#8216;The Queen Is Dead&#8217; and &#8216;Strangeways, Here We Come&#8217; , alongside releases such as the live album &#8216;Rank&#8217; and compilations &#8216;Hatful of Hollow&#8217; and &#8216;The World Won\u2019t Listen&#8217;.  <!--more-->  <br \/>Earlier this week Morrissey published an outspoken blog post in which he accused members of the Royal Family of hypocrisy for going on a hunting trip to Spain the day after launching United For Wildlife, a campaign to end the illegal hunting of animals.<\/p>\n<p>The frontman will release a new album later this year. The album is expected to be released in the second half of 2014 with Morrissey currently working on the follow-up to 2009&#8217;s &#8216;Years Of Refusal&#8217; in France with producer Joe Chiccarelli. The singer, who released his autobiography in October 2013, has signed a new, worldwide record deal with Universal Music\u2019s US-based Harvest Records. In a statement, he said he was &#8220;thrilled&#8221; to sign the contract.<\/p>\n<p>Source: NME<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smiths back catalogue has been remastered for iTunes and made available globally from today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}