Photographer Stephen Wright's best shot

'At the time, I was using my bedroom as a darkroom – and storing all my chemicals in old lemonade bottles'This shoot really should have gone to a big-name photographer – an Anton Corbijn or a Pennie Smith – but it went to me, a fan using a cheap Nikon with the wrong lens. I'd sent Rough Trade, the Smiths' label, pictures of the band playing, and Morrissey liked them. They asked me to shoot what would become the inside sleeve to The Queen Is Dead.I barely slept the night before, but the ban...

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