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The Smiths: The Band With The Thorn In Its Side

Nick Kent, The Face, April 1987

The past two years have seen panic in the Smiths camp, with take-over bids and narcotic problems competing with international success. Nick Kent assesses the progress of "the only sig­nificant British rock band of the eighties". Splendid isolationists or drama queens?

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