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It's a god-eat-god world
I'm almost embarrased to admit it's only been this long, but it was when I saw the Irish Blood, English Heart music video. My only awareness of him prior to that was seeing the strange man with the quiff on the cover of Maladjusted in music stores and from the studio version of Jack the Ripper, which someone included on a mix CD for me. You Are The Quarry turned out to be a great album to cut my teeth on... I've loved the guy (and The Smiths, of course) ever since.