
Very few music fans who were around during the mid-eighties were indifferent to The Smiths – you might love them or hate them, like Marmite really, but you were unlikely not to have much of an opinion. This is what drove their success of course - the fans were the kind of fans who would queue for hours, days even, to get tickets for gigs or the latest release. With that kind of adoration, the fact that there was also a bunch of people going around saying how much they hated them (not simply didn't think [...]