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Ah the good old NME days of enfants terrible Parsons and Burchill

She's just horrible and he's a joke nowadays.
When you're old enough to remember those days - or indeed any era which had a profound influence on your life - I think it's OK to preserve the memory, freeze it in time if you like. I was very young back then...too young to form a proper grasp of what constituted a good writer but I was old enough to pick up on the excitement of punk via my cousin's record and magazine collection. I used to find it phenomenally exciting to flick through the NMEs, Melody Makers and Sounds magazines which populated his bedroom and spotting the bylines of Burchill and Parsons among others, people who seemed to me impossibly exotic. Whatever sort of people they've gone on to become (or always were) doesn't really detract from that for me. Somebody else mentioned Morrissey's far-right credentials these days. While I've heard some say he was always a bit suspect re nationalism/racism, it must nevertheless be hard for many of his devotees to deal with. Does that mean though that they have to jettison the memories of what the Smiths meant to them?