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The Smiths: Fox Theater, Detroit

Bill Holdship, Creem, December 1986

IT ALL BOILS down to the collapse and decay of the British Empire. You could blame it on Margaret Thatcher. Or on Joy Division. Or on dreary Manchester and Northern England.

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