Mark E Smith’s fiancée and last manager hits out at The Fall’s final album as “cash grab” and “ethically wrong”
The Fall's legacy just got a whole lot messier. Mark E Smith's fiancée and former manager has gone on record calling the band's final album a cash grab, and she's raising some genuinely thorny questions about who gets to decide what happens to an artist's work after they've gone. It's the sort of ethical minefield that doesn't have easy answers, but it's worth paying attention to when you care about artists and their autonomy. For Cledvibes Radio listeners who've grown up with The Fall's uncompromising spirit, there's something particularly uncomfortable about the suggestion that that same defiant legacy might have been compromised for commercial reasons.
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