Tim Smith

Album: Chutzpah! (2009)
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Songfacts®:

  • The Wildhearts are a rock group originally from the north east of England. This is a track from their eighth studio album, Chutzpah!.
  • This song is a tribute to Tim Smith, the leader of the highly influential English Alternative Rock band, Cardiacs. Wildhearts frontman Ginger explained to The Sun August 28, 2009: "Tim is one of the last true geniuses alive, and the fact a media obsessed world has little interest isn't a shock."

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