Australian R&B artist Daniel Merriweather released a couple of singles in the mid-2000s that garnered him a reputation in his homeland but didn’t exactly make him a household name. However, in 2007 he joined forces with superproducer Mark Ronson (Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, etc.) to record a cover of the Smiths song “Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before,” and his name was made, at least in the U.K. As “Stop Me,” the track became one of the highlights of Ronson’s hit album VERSION. It didn’t take long after that for a full-album project to begin, with 2009’s LOVE AND WAR.