This new seven-disc Fall box set surveys every single and B-side the Mancunian institution has released since 1978. It provides a tidy, linear history of a notoriously unstable band. From the get-go, ...

Johnny Rotten may have mobilized a generation of snarling malcontents, but for those who were a little too weird, brainy and normally dressed to pass as punk, Mark E. Smith was the Messiah. Formed in ...