Ask

Release Date October 20, 1986

UK Chart Peak Position: 14

UK Cover Australia Cover 7 Catalogue Number

RT 194

Germany Cover

12 Catalogue Number
RTT 194

Tracklist
Cemetry Gates Ask

Tracklist
Cemetry Gates Golden Lights Ask

Vinyl Etchings
A Side: Are You Loathesome Tonight? B Side: Tomb It May Concern

Vinyl Etchings
A Side: Are You Loathesome Tonight? B Side: Tomb It May Concern

Artwork
Yootha Joyce on the set of the 1965 film "Catch Us If You Can," known in North America under the title "Having A Wild Weekend".

Germany for the release of the single therefore the German release of Ask film The Leather Boys.

This image was already used in

Promotional Poster

Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others; features Colin Campbell from the 1964

in front of a 1986 Queen Is Dead tour poster, which features the infamous Popsicle Boy image.

The Australian release depicts Morrissey

The Smiths on Ask

acoustics. I play the G-Am-C-D Craig Gannon and I are playing Martin

progression on a Rickenbacker 330. The

highlify part is played on a '63 Strat. I'm Urei Boom Box, an early '70s piece of guitars, as well. It's like one of those vulgar 'loudness' buttons on a hi-fi. It

also vamping on a G harmonica through a outboard gear that we also used a lot on

pushes things slightly out of phase, but a big chrome box with one knob: can write in and tell us about it.

gives them a bottomy, dense sound., It's 'intensity.' Hey, maybe one of the readers

- Johnny Marr, Guitar Player, (January, 1990)