The 1968 song that broke up The Smiths: “The last straw”Don’t get me wrong, I love my nan, but we certainly don’t share the same music taste. But in the case of The Smiths, the proposal of such an offer became the straw that broke the camel’s back. Marr has since stated that the straw that broke the camel’s back was the contrived recording of Cilla’s corny caper, ‘Work is a Four-Letter Word’, from 1968. “Cilla Black, unbeknownst to herself, actually broke up The Smiths. But as for my grandmother and me, well, we were deprived of the one sonic bridge that may have connected our warring artistic generations: a Cilla Black song covered by The Smiths.