“I’m not the most eloquent person,” Mr. Smith says now. All he wanted was to remind people that love is love is love, particularly his brand of young adult love: heart-eye emoji love, cupid-arrow love, the love from “The Notebook” and “Titanic.” That’s how big love is. Mr. Smith was raised in Great Chishill, a village an hour and a half from London with a population of less than 700. But now, reading and watching interviews with him in his last years, after Mr. Michael came out, Mr. Smith found him to be a great mentor. It is still prime music for “having sex with your sadness,” as Mr. Smith said.

Source: New York Times November 01, 2017 10:23 UTC