McCartney Times

What can you say about Mark E. Smith that he hasn’t already told you himself? The most acerbic man in Manchester (which puts him pretty high in the running for the most acerbic man worldwide) was as cutthroat as a certain Sweeney’s razor, but unlike Mr Todd, he never made a song and dance about it. Someone who most certainly did was John Lennon.

If Lennon identified as a revolutionary with any more fidelity, then his image would’ve been banned from the BBC. However, this John Lenin act waned towards the end as it did for many counterculture kids who slowly gave in to the comforts of suburban conformity and Smith was not prepared to stand by and let that legacy go unaddressed.

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Source: Mark E. Smith’s dark comments about the death of John Lennon