The Crack Up

Album: The Messenger (2013)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song was inspired by a news story that Johnny Marr read about the apparent suicide of Russian model Ruslana Korshunova, who died after falling from the ninth-floor balcony of her Manhattan apartment. No suicide note was found and some have speculated that her death was a murder committed by individuals operating an upmarket prostitution ring. Marr told NME: "I've got a few friends who were models, and it's about observations I've made about their lives. Again, it's about fame and what we'll do for it, but it's also about being coerced into it - these people who are behind the models and maybe think of them as machines."

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