On a spring afternoon in 1982, a young musician named Johnny Marr turned up unannounced outside a council house in Kings Road, Stretford.
The 18-year-old had made the journey from his home in Wythenshawe in the hope of convincing a young man by the name of Steven Morrissey to form a band with him.
Morrissey, a shy, unemployed writer living with his mum, duly agreed. The band, which the pair later named The Smiths, would go on to become one of the influential of all time.
