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The Smiths’ third studio album, The Queen Is Dead , was released in June 1986, following its singles ” The Boy with the Thorn in His Side ” and ” Bigmouth Strikes Again “. Marr used an E-mu Emulator synthesizer on tracks such as ” There Is a Light That Never Goes Out ” and “The Boy with the Thorn in His Side” to create the sound of a string section . The Queen Is Dead reached number two on the UK charts.