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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent
And I'm about to start on Camus' The Fall. I've been wondering whether or not that's where the band got their name, that would be pretty cool, Camus is probably my favorite author.
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Yes it is , but it wasn`t Mark E Smith that came up with it. It was their original bass player Tony Friel that came up with it. He wanted to use another Camus novel 'The Outsiders' as the bands name but it was already being used by another band so he used 'The Fall'.