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Were there song lyrics inside the plastic bag?
The Fall are my Beatles, Murphy once said effusively.
When Smith first heard Losing My Edge, he thought it was a Fall ripoff.
I went into my local shop a few weeks ago for groceries, Smith told theWire.
I said, This sounds exactly like me, are you trying to take the piss?
At which point the blokes getting a bit paranoid … Just some New York arsehole.
What do you think?
The fan was Richard D. James also known as the Aphex Twin.
Mere minutes later, Smith had lost the matchbox, and they never worked together.
It drove us bonkers.
A fistfight apparently ensued.
The lengthy Wikipedia entryList of the Falls band membersis a true sight to behold.
Burnley 1, Leicester City nil, he begins intoning hypnotically.
Coventry City 1, Ipswich Town 1.
And on and on, in a surreal, trancelike fashion, for the next seven minutes.
Its one of the stranger moments of sports commentary youll ever witness.
They havent got an original idea in their heads.
The leader of the Fall fan club, who was standing near me, begged me to have it.
I gave it to him, and he was thrilled: I dont have this one yet!
