There’s a bit of armchair psychology which often gets trotted out on the subject of great musicians. They’re not good with words, it says. Instead they learn to communicate through their chosen instrument, and...
Read MoreOf The Smiths’ many fine attributes, there’s one which sometimes tends to get overlooked: their strong sense of place. While their contemporaries were singing hymns to the exotic likes of Club Tropicana, Vienna and...
Read MoreThe Smiths formed in 1982. I was six, and only started listening to them in 1992 when my mate Liam did me a mix tape. Blew. My. Mind. Here, at the Manchester Apollo, Johnny Marr dedicates a third of his set to Smiths’...
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