How we made: Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce on the Smiths' first gig

'Morrissey was yodelling with his legs in the air. There was shock in the front row'Andy Rourke, bassJohnny [Marr] and Morrissey had done a gig at the Ritz with Dale Hibbert on bass, and then Johnny asked me to join. I'd known him since I was 11, and we'd always been in bands together. The year before we'd been in a band called Freak Party with Si Wolstencroft, the drummer who later played with the Fall; I think we got too funky for Johnny, who wanted to go somewhere else. Then suddenly I got a ...

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