Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8. WEA decided to promote the album in the UK by re-releasing the "Ask" single with its two original B-sides, "Cemetry Gates" and "Golden Lights". The single charted at #62. In the United States, Sire decided to release " Sweet and Tender Hooligan", a single of rarities, to promote the album, with a newly designed sleeve by Morrissey. It failed to chart. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. " The Smiths – The Smiths". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 22 December 2018 . Retrieved 19 January 2019.

Y aunque imagino que casi todo el mundo sabe la historia de "Mozz" con "The Smiths", sabrá también que la banda se formó en 1982 y se desintegró, al parecer de forma definitiva, en 1987 cuando "Jhonny Marr" debido a ciertos desacuerdos con el resto del grupo, decide dejarlos. Brazilian album certifications – The Smiths – Queen Is Dad" (in Portuguese). Pro-Música Brasil . Retrieved 4 May 2019. Complete(Box Set, Compilation, Limited Edition, LP, Album, Remastered, Reissue, LP, Album, Remastered, Reissue, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 2×LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, LP, Compilation, Reissue, Remastered, 2×LP, Compilation, Reissue, Remastered, 2×LP, Compilation, Reissue, Remastered) Christgau, Robert (29 May 1984). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice . Retrieved 25 September 2015.King, John (6 August 2014). "Meat Means Murder". Rebellion Festivals Programme - 2014. Rebellion Festivals Ltd. pp.34–35 . Retrieved 26 March 2019. Frankly Mr. Shankly"/"The Draize Train" (liner notes). The Smiths. Germany: Zensor. 1986. 6.20628 AE. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link)

Two other loose categories could be formed out of the songs on The Queen Is Dead: Beside the meta, there’s the merry and the melancholy. Despite the morbid (and misspelled) title, “Cemetry Gates” is sprightly and carefree. Even though they’re strolling among the gravestones quoting poetry at each other to show how intensely they feel the sorrow of mortality, the life-force is strong in these precocious youngsters. As so often with Morrissey, the frissons come with the tiny quirks of unusual word-choice or phrasing—the little jolt of the way he pronounces “plagiarize” with an incorrect hard “g,” for instance. Featuring the album’s second instance of cross-dressing, “Vicar in a Tutu” is a slight delight with just a casual twist of subversiveness in a passing reference to the priest’s kinky antics being “as natural as rain”: This freak is just as God made him. Almost cosmic in its insubstantiality, “Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others” seemed at the time an anticlimactic ending to such an Important Album. Now I think the understatement is just right, rather than the obvious curtain-closer, “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”—the glide and glisten of Marr’s playing on “Some Girls” is that never-fading light.European Hot 100 Albums Chart" (PDF). Music & Media. 13 August 1984. p.12 . Retrieved 14 October 2019.