One Autumn night in 1977 a young me, 18 year old boy, went to a gig at a local club "Hazel Grove Youth Club" and saw an unknown band as was, "The Fall". I remember being blown away by the performance, but in particular by Mark E Smith.
It inspired me to go home, I removed a picture from the Beatles - White Album and on the back of the John Lennon picture, I wrote down a load of random sentences and posted it to the address on the back of The Fall Album, "Live at the Witch trials", which I had just bought at the gig.
To my joy I received a great letter from Mark E Smith and a load of memorabilia about the Fall and I remember him saying "there's a lot of mad people in Stockport", to which I thought, nice one and I'm glad I'm one of them.
What a band, what a debut album and how nice they took the time to respond to a mad man from Manchester.
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