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Fact #77196

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Short story:

The Smiths American tour comes to a premature end after the gig at the Bay Front Center, Tampa, Florida, USA. The four remaining dates of the tour are cancelled. According to drummer Mike Joyce, "After the Tampa gig, it just got so crazy that we were really burned out."

Full article:

Mike Joyce (drummer, The Smiths) : After the Tampa gig, it just got so crazy that we were really burned out. We’d put so much into it every night. It wasn’t just like, ‘Oh, where are we now?’ It was more like, ‘Every gig is the most important gig we play,’ which is a great way of looking at it, but it certainly takes the wind out of your sails after doing it for thirty nights.
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