Mark E. Smith's Wrath & Roll
Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 16 September 1993
MARK E. SMITH is one of Britain's great misanthropes. On the 1980 live album Totale's Turns, only the third record by his band the Fall, Smith tells the audience: "The difference between us and you is that we have brains."
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