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These Disarming Men: The Smiths

Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 4 February 1984

"...the touching and bewitching songs that open hearts and purses. Art. Great Art."
– Jean Genet, Funeral Rites

Total word count of piece: 5104

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