‘Ohhh ... I absolutely HATE the Smiths!’ I hear Slade singer Noddy Holder say in a daytime radio interview, as in the same week Cockney Rebel singer Steve Harley tells the Daily Mail, ‘I cannot STAND the Smiths.’ In Manchester, the famous Manchester Evening News desperately attempts to portray the Smiths as ‘fans’ of Hindley and Brady, and finally relent with the almost-invisible BAD BOYS ARE TOPS when Meat is Murder hits number 1. How delightful to be thought ‘bad’, I muse, as I sit by a reading-light, pawing George Eliot’s Scenes of Clerical Life. Life is clearly so much better when you can
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