How Soon Is Now? (12″ version)

Name: How Soon Is Now?
Duration: 6 min 46 s

~ Recording by The Smiths

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Release artist	Release group type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
1.6	How Soon Is Now?	6:46	The Smiths	Meat Is Murder	The Smiths	Album	US1987	Sire Records	9 25269-2

engineer:	Stephen Street (famous producer, songwriter)
producer:	John Porter (producer and musician US and UK)

phonographic copyright (℗) by:	Sire Records Company (not for release label use!) (in 1984) Warner Music UK Ltd. (not for release label use!) (in 1984)

sampled by:	Hippychick by Soho (UK pop trio known for “Hippychick”) Öylesine by Ağaçkakan, hrsz & Oldeaf
mash-ups:	How Tom Is Now? (Suzanne Vega vs. The Smiths) by Max & Moritz I Am Human and I Need to Find Love by Calum Slingerland

part of:	Indie 88: Top 500 Indie Rock Songs (number: 3) (order: 3) NME: Greatest “Indie” Anthems Ever: 2007 (number: 7) (order: 7) Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: 2021 edition (number: 421) (order: 424) Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (as at 2016-06-10) (number: 486) (order: 489)

stream for free:	https://open.spotify.com/track/2HoEBr5tvWC8qyKvGBeohA [info]
other databases:	https://www.whosampled.com/The-Smiths/How-Soon-Is-Now?/ [info]

recording of:	How Soon Is Now? (in 1984-07)

lyricist:	Morrissey (English singer‐songwriter)
writer:	Johnny Marr Morrissey (English singer‐songwriter)
composer:	Johnny Marr

publisher:	Morrissey Marr Songs Ltd. Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (no slash; used 1988–1996)

later translated versions:	¿Cuándo es ahora? (How Soon Is Now?)