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In the midst of a UK tour, Mike Joyce of The Smiths wakens to find he has chicken pox. The Smiths abandon the tour, leaving The Go Betweens to fill in for them. The band's sound engineer, Grant Cunliffe, observed, "His face was three times the size it was the day before."