But she never quite closed the door completely on her past and there have been brief renaissances. In the 1980s, the Smiths rekindled her pop career – Morrissey declaring himself an "incurable Sandie Shaw fan" – when she recorded their "Hand in Glove" and they appeared as her backing band on Top of the Pops with their shoes off. Later, though, when on their 1988 album, Viva Hate, the Smiths sang apropos of a fading celebrity, "Did that swift eclipse torture you?", some wondered out loud whether it was a reference to Shaw.