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posted by davidt
on Tuesday July 11 2000, @08:45AM
Charles Byron writes:
In the July issue of Argentine magazine Los Inrockuptibles Richard Ashcroft (ex The Verve) mentions The Smiths as his First Love.
L.I: Did rock help you to get out of your shell?
R.A.: It was when I was 15 years that rock became something essential, at the same time than drugs and some books about pop music history. My first great love was The Smiths, and after them, The Stone Roses and the Happy Mondays... In our little northwester English corner, the entire Madchester subject was very important. For the first time there were a couple of guys just like us on stage.
Also, in the same issue Stuart Murdoch from Belle & Sebastian is regarded as an "end of the century version of the most brilliant Morrissey".
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(I*m a little disturbed that he mentions the Smiths and the Happy Mondays in the same sentence but nevermind....)