There's a good and complimentary review of Tony Fletcher's new Smiths book in today's Sunday Times (online version behind paywall). In a related article, there's also this...
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The Independent also has a review http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...a-of-the-smiths-by-tony-fletcher-8100846.html
'By refusing to reform, they defied the capitalist logic which insists that bands such as U2 or REM persist long after their relevance has passed. (The otherwise confused "Paint a Vulgar Picture", on their patchy swan song Strangeways, Here We Come, predicted and rejected this inevitability.)'
can anyone parse/translate this?