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The Smiths
Heaven knows they were brilliant. Heaven knows it ended badly. Five years that changed British music, in their own words.
There are bands who split and reunite so often it stops meaning
anything. And then there's The Smiths. Five years. Four albums. A string of hits that still sound like nothing else. And a break-up, in 1987, that's still raw forty years on.
Presented by Steve Lamacq and Elizabeth Alker and built entirely from the BBC archive, this eight-part series goes back to the very beginning: a restless teenager from Stretford, a guitarist from Wythenshawe with a cassette under his arm, and the five extraordinary years that followed.
How did it all go so right? And how did it go so wrong?
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