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New old The Smiths demo surfaces online

20 March 2013, 13:17 | Written by Luke Morgan Britton
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An unheard demo by The Smiths has been unearthed, dating back to 1983.

The recording, taken at a jeans warehouse in Manchester, totals at 40 minutes in length and shows the band during one of their earliest rehearsal sessions.

The clip was posted online by Smiths drummer Mike Joyce, seemingly in response to Johnny Marr’s following nostalgia-hating tweet

Listen to the recording in full beneath:

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