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[[The Fall]] are a [[Post Punk]] band from Manchester, England. The favorite band of legendary [[The BBC|BBC]] DJ [[The Last DJ|John Peel]], The Fall were formed in 1976 by iconoclastic weirdo [[Face of the Band|Mark E. Smith]], and since then the band has had [[Revolving Door Band|more lineup changes than perhaps any band ever]], with Smith being the [[I Am the Band|sole constant member]]. Other than Smith, the band has had a handful of members that are beloved by fans and spent long tenures with the band, but bandmembers often quit or are fired with almost every album (in fact, after the release of ''Fall Heads Roll'' in 2005, the entire band quit on Smith (excluding his keyboardist wife Elena Poulou) in the middle of the night while the band was staying at a hotel in the American Southwest).
Despite the constant lineup changes, the band is extremely prolific, having recorded 29 studio albums since 1978. Their most recent album is ''Ersatz G.B.'', released in November 2011.
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* [[Adored by the Network]]: The Fall were favorite band of BBC Radio DJ John Peel and its was rather good thing for the band to have one of the most respected, beloved and influential radio DJs in the world as [[Big Name Fan|their number one fan]], as he continuously played the band's records on his shows, giving them a major [[Colbert Bump]]. Even though the band played Peel's radio show many, many times before Peel's 2004 death, he and Mark E. Smith only met face-to-face on two apparently awkward occasions.
** When the band performed "Eat Y'self Fitter" for the first time on Peel's radio show in March 1983, Peel actually ''fainted'' from how awestruck he was by the song and his producer had to resuscitate him.
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