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Editors in Control

Robin Eggar, The Sunday Times, 24 June 2007

THE TITLE OF the new Editors single, 'Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors', sums up the band's view of life. "The irony of someone having treatment for lung cancer coming outside for a cigarette stuck with me from visiting hospitals as a kid," says Tom Smith, the band's singer and songwriter. "It is my job as a lyricist to spark images in people's heads."

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