Another great song from the '80s. This song is really incredible. Kids, this is how music was made before everything became digitaly manipulated. Here's a quote from The Smiths' guitarist Johnny Marr about how the guitar track was produced:
"The vibrato sound is f**king incredible, and it took a long time. I put down the rhythm track on an Epiphone Casino through a Fender Twin Reverb without vibrato. Then we played the track back through four old Twins, one on each side. We had to keep all the amps vibrating in time to the track and each other, so we had to keep stopping and starting the track, recording it in 10-second bursts... I wish I could remember exactly how we did the slide part -- not writing it down is one of the banes of my life! We did it in three passes through a harmonizer, set to some weird interval, like a sixth. There was a different harmonization for each pass. For the line in harmonics, I retuned the guitar so that I could play it all at the 12th fret with natural harmonics. It's doubled several times."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUMh8GQnDW8#