Mark E. Smith

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Mark E. Smith (5 March 1957 - 24 January 2018) was the lead singer, lyricist, co-composer and frontman of The Fall, a renowned and idiosyncratic offshoot from the UK post-punk / new wave music scenes. Mark Edward Smith was born to a working-class family in Broughton, Salford, in Lancashire, England, moving to nearby Prestwich, near Bury early in his life. He formed The Fall (named after the novel by Camus) with friends after dropping out of college at the age of 19. <a href="https://www.last.f

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5 total works indexed

1. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

   · 2012 · cited 64,943x

2. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

   · 2012 · cited 49,579x

3. Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test

   · 1997 · cited 47,717x

4. Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances

   · 1956 · cited 41,857x

5. Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches

   · 1995 · cited 39,564x

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Quotes

• “Going to Glastonbury is so clichéd isn’t it...I’ve seen it with groups once they get a scent of fame. He’s been waiting 25 years for it. He’s got aftershave on. It’s like Ed Sheeran. I think Sheeran and Corbyn are evil twins. See Corbyn in Europe the other day? He’s started wearing what they’ve asked him to. He’s like ‘oh it’s my first hit record’. He’s turned into Rod Stewart.”
• “There was always privilege in music, it was always like that, but nowadays you don’t have a chance in hell. Why Blunt would talk about it I don’t know but that’s what I’m saying. He’s looked at them cutting the army back, he’s in a tank and he’s gone to Daddy, ‘What shall I do?’ In the past it would have been ‘stick at it’, now his Dad is telling him to be a jazz singer. Imagine him as a tank commander, I’d shit myself.”
• “We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said 'shut them cunts up' and they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The bands said 'that's the Sons of Mumford' or something, 'they're number five in charts!' I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers.”
• “Haha! I mean, if you’re new to The Fall… a lot of these groups… I don’t know what it is. I think a lot of these group use it to sound a bit hip. When I was a teenager, people used to say 'oh well this group sounds a lot like this group', and then when you go and see them they sound like a pack of shit. They sound like the Talking Heads to me, and I’m not knocking them, it’s just misleading.”
• “Brooklyn Vegan, 26 June 2006”
• “Dickheads who couldn’t hold their beer and needed to get home to Cheshire”

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