
Mark E. Smith at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, May 27, 2010.
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Wonderful and Frightening: Mark E. Smith Was the All-Time Greatest Mark E. Smith
Nasty, unlikable, salty, hilarious, a master of the language, a grandmaster of the insult—and all but impossible to understand—Mark E. Smith was like no other rock singer, and the Fall was like no other band. Which is too bad for every other band.