The Fall: Hey! Luciani – The Times, Life & Codex Of Albino Luciani, London Riverside Studios
Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 13 December 1986
TWO WEEKS after David Byrne's True Stories opened in Britain, Mark E Smith weighs in with his own medium expansion, Hey! Luciani, a play based on the life – or more importantly on the death – of Albino Luciani, who wasn't king for a day but Pope for 28, before dying in suspicious circumstances.
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