My first time with Morrissey

The first time I heard The Smiths. It was mid 1986, I was at a friends house with a girl I fancied. Since he lived on the border of high school districts, he had friends that went to a neighboring high school. At the time I was listening to what was referred to as new wave and punk music. Goth and a new wave look was prevalent at the time. One of his friends was a girl from the other high school and she had a heavy goth look to her. We were sitting in chairs in the front of his house under the shade of a giant weeping willow tree. It was a wonderful afternoon with nothing to do as teenagers but hangout. We were talking and smoking cigarettes. The girl had a little portable radio and she put in a cassette to play. It was The Smiths album Meat Is Murder. The first song that plays is The Headmaster Ritual. I am enthralled with what I am hearing. I am curious and ask her who it is. So begins the adventure, the collecting, and the discovery of feelings with finding something that is intensely personal to how you feel. So many wonderful stories of those times in the eighties.