Gutted. What an incredible bassist 
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Thats far too young. If I had one band to go back and see at the height it would have been them. Pre Morrisey turning etc… A ridiculous band
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Me too!
This gig is amazing, barely a dropped note the whole gig between Marr and Rourke
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That’s great, thanks.
Smiths are a band I never got into at the time but have grown on me massively in retrospect. I read Jonny Marr’s autobiography a few years ago which was really good and made me reassess.
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Touching tribute from Morrissey. Beneath all the nonsense, there’s still a heart
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Agree, just read that
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Surprisingly lovely I thought although maybe a little dig at Marr - the “manufactured” bit.
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RIP. Got into them as a moody teenager drawn to M’s lyrics, stayed for the music. I could listen to the interplay between Rourke & Marr all day long - mindblowing. This has always been a favourite - I just listen to the intro over and over…
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Great bassline on this one, probably The Smiths at their ‘funkiest’
“A crack on the head is what you get for not asking & a crack on the head is what you get for asking”
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I read somewhere that he & Johnny were just 23 when The Smiths split.
All those great records & they weren’t even 24 before it was all over.
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Money is a great book.
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I remember reading it in the 90s and one of the characters lived in the same tiny cul de sac in Shepherds Bush as we did (Keith Grove)
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Tina Turner… what a life. RIP
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with the amount of work she put into her stage shows, i figured she’d outlive us all.
RIP!
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