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“IT’S a common fallacy that great writers, bands and footballers ‘go soft’ with extreme fame,” wrote Mark E Smith in a letter on August 11, 1980. “I contradict this and say the people love a decline and become very vampiric towards their heroes.” Given that he proudly stated that he burned his copy of , Dave Simpson’s book about tracking down all the ex-members of The Fall, one can only imagine what Prestwich’s favourite son – who died aged 60 in 2018 –.
