The Smiths: Better than the Beatles? by David Daley - Salon

No band captured the tormented teen soul like The Smiths. The author of a new 700-page bio explains why they matter.

The terrific British music writer Tony Fletcher has just published the definitive biography of the group, “A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of The Smiths,” taking almost 700 pages to tell the story of just 70 songs and this essential slice of the 1980s.

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Morrissey to play Vive Latino Festival - true-to-you.net
5 December 2012

Morrissey will play the Vive Latino Festival in Mexico City, Mexico, on Thursday 14 March 2013.

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Una productora venezolana nos acaba de confirmar Morrissey en Caracas para abril de 2013. El anuncio oficial será este mes.

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A Venezuelan producer has just confirmed Morrissey in Caracas in April 2013. The official announcement will be this month.

"A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of the Smiths" by Tony Fletcher is out Dec. 4, 201`2 in the US.

Paul and Abrahan send the press release (Word format).

Paul also sends word of two NYC reading events booked:

12/6/12 - BookCourt (Brooklyn, NY) in conversation with Rob Sheffield
12/17/12 – The Strand (NY, NY) in conversation with Matt Pinfield

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This Charming Band - Slate
An exhaustive, exhausting book about the Smiths.
By Chris Gethard

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Fifteen minutes with Tony Fletcher, author of ‘A Light That Never Goes Out: The...

Re: Johnny Marr with Dinosaur Jr playing "The boy with the thorn..." and "The Wagon"

Dinosaur Jr? Seriously? I suppose it is his own (half)legacy to piss on, so who am I to judge, other than a human with a fully functioning sense of hearing? And hey, at least J. Mascis sure ain't no crooner...

Uncleskinny said:

From the BBC Radio 2 Dermot O'Leary show, today, 1st December 2012

http://tindeck.com/listen/jahe

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Very nice!
Thank you for sharing Peter.
Any way to download this?

Cheers,

I.R.

I bought Gisela's album "So Cold" many years ago and really liked it, and for some reason I was searching her out this evening to see whether she'd ever recorded anything else. I found her site here:

http://music.eskapi.com/

Not only has she indeed recorded a bunch of albums (free to download) but there's a cover of There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (link towards bottom or go straight here:

http://www.eskapi.com/musik/elektrocovers/Gisela - There is a light that never goes out.mp3