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Song · 1983 · Alternative rock

This Charming Man

1983

★ 7.8 editorial score

Marr stacked roughly fifteen guitar tracks and dropped a knife on the strings; Morrissey lifted a line from Sleuth.

Genre

Alternative rock Rock

Subject

Desire Social class

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