Hold On to Your Friends

"Hold On to Your Friends"
Single by Morrissey
from the album Vauxhall and I
B-side"Moon River"
Released30 May 1994
RecordedJune–August 1993
GenreAlternative rock
Length4:02
LabelParlophone (UK)
Songwriter(s)Morrissey, Alain Whyte
Producer(s)Steve Lillywhite
Morrissey singles chronology
"The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get"
(1994)
"Hold On to Your Friends"
(1994)
"Interlude"
(1994)

"Hold On to Your Friends" is a song by Morrissey, released as a single in May 1994. It was the second single taken from the number 1 album Vauxhall and I. Morrissey claimed, "It was written about somebody I know, in relation of their treatment towards me."[1]

Reaching number 48 in the UK Singles Chart, the single became Morrissey's lowest charting single until "Glamorous Glue" in 2011, which reached number 69.[2]

  1. ^ Bret, David (2004). Morrissey: Scandal and Passion. Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 978-1-86105-787-7.
  2. ^ "Official UK Singles Top 100 - 25th February 2012 | The UK Charts | Top 40 | Official Charts Company". Theofficialcharts.com. Archived from the original on 15 March 2011. Retrieved 21 February 2012.