Legend of the Fall: Mark E Smith kept swinging to the end

Despite his image Mark E Smith was no ogre. We bid farewell to a kind-hearted hellraiser News report: Mark E Smith dies aged 60
I first met Mark E Smith in 1981, as I waited on the steps of Leeds University, about to see my first ever Fall gig. Suddenly I spied the singer coming out of the building and rushed over to get an autograph. I was a painfully naive schoolboy and had no idea how to approach a pop star – or, rather, an enigmatic cult figure with a fearsome reputation for taking no