"Sing Your Life" was a single by Morrissey

Morrissey

Steven Patrick Morrissey , known as Morrissey, is an English singer and lyricist. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the alternative rock band The Smiths. The band was highly successful in the United Kingdom but broke up in 1987, and Morrissey began a solo career,...

 released in April 1991. It was the second single taken from the Kill Uncle

Kill Uncle

Kill Uncle is Morrissey's second solo album, released on 4 March 1991 by EMI and HMV Records...

album. On release this was Morrissey's lowest charting single in the UK charts, reaching only number 33. One of the single's b-sides was a cover version of "That's Entertainment

That's Entertainment (song)

"That's Entertainment" is a 1980 song by British punk/Mod Revivalist group The Jam off their fifth album, Sound Affects.-Song profile:...

" by The Jam

The Jam

The Jam were an English punk rock/New Wave/mod revival band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. They were formed in Woking, Surrey. While they shared the "angry young men" outlook and fast tempos of their punk rock contemporaries, The Jam wore smartly tailored suits rather than ripped...

 which had backing vocals by "Chas Smash

Chas Smash

Cathal Smyth, also known as Chas Smash is an English musician, best known as the backing singer and dancer in the ska/pop band Madness. He also plays trumpet, acoustic guitar and various percussion instruments...

", aka Carl Smyth the second singer of the band Madness

Madness (band)

In 1979, the band recorded the Lee Thompson composition "The Prince". The song, like the band's name, paid homage to their idol, Prince Buster. The song was released through 2 Tone Records, the label of The Specials founder Jerry Dammers. The song was a surprise hit, peaking in the UK music charts...

.

7" vinyl and cassette

1. "Sing Your Life"
2. "That's Entertainment
   That's Entertainment (song)
   "That's Entertainment" is a 1980 song by British punk/Mod Revivalist group The Jam off their fifth album, Sound Affects.-Song profile:...
   
   " (The Jam
   The Jam
   The Jam were an English punk rock/New Wave/mod revival band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. They were formed in Woking, Surrey. While they shared the "angry young men" outlook and fast tempos of their punk rock contemporaries, The Jam wore smartly tailored suits rather than ripped...
   
    cover)

CD

1. "Sing Your Life"
2. "That's Entertainment" (The Jam cover)
3. "The Loop"

Country	Record label	Format	Catalogue number
UK	HMV	7" vinyl	POP1626
UK	HMV	12" vinyl	12POP1626
UK	HMV	Compact disc	CDPOP1626
UK	HMV	Cassette	TCPOP1626

Reviews

Stuart Maconie in NME

NME

The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

gave the single a positive review, calling it "toe-tapping".

Musicians

• Morrissey – voice
• Mark E. Nevin – guitars
• Andrew Paresi – drums
• Boz Boorer – second guitar
• Jonny Bridgwood – bass
• Alain Whyte – harmonica
• Mark Bedford – bass on "Sing Your Life"

Live performances

The song was performed live by Morrissey on his 1991 Kill Uncle tour. The song was last performed on 6 October 1991, and was dropped from the set list for the rest of the tour. Along with all of the material from Kill Uncle, "Sing Your Life" has never been performed by Morrissey since the 1991 tour, but it is frequently requested by his audience. When Morrissey hears the request, he usually replies by saying "I'm singing it."

External links

• "Sing Your Life" at Passions Just Like Mine