Johnny Rotten may have mobilized a generation of snarling malcontents, but for those who were a little too weird, brainy and normally dressed to pass as punk, Mark E. Smith was the Messiah. Formed in Manchester, England, in 1976 – "To form a group is the most ridiculous idea ever", Smith once told NME – the Fall was Smith's megaphone, a band whose uncompromising mission to be
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