The Fall

'If it's me and your granny on bongos, it's the Fall,' Mark E. Smith once said, and over four decades more than 60 musicians passed through his Manchester band.

Smith's sneering, sing-speak rants rode on repetitive, scratchy riffs, from the abrasive Live at the Witch Trials and Hex Enduction Hour to the poppier mid-80s records made with guitarist Brix Smith, such as This Nation's Saving Grace.

John Peel adored them, recording 24 sessions, the most by any act, and the group ended with Smith's death in 2018.