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The Smiths

Ian Birch, Smash Hits, 10 November 1983

"IT'S VERY strange the way things happen," muses Morrissey, 23-year-old singer, lyricist and general spokesman for the Smiths — a band with a growing live reputation and an excellent new single out on Rough Trade called 'This Charming Man'.

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