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Adulation, flowers and spittle: remembering the Smiths' Eighties gigs in Scotland

Adulation, flowers and spittle: remembering the Smiths' Eighties gigs in Scotland

SIFTING through some old concert programmes last weekend, I came upon one for a 1985 Scottish tour by The Smiths, at that time one of my favourite groups.

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