I've just stumbled across an article in a French newsletter called "Contact", it's for the people who hold a FNAC membership card. The FNAC is a superstore like Virgin Megastore but with a huge book and new technology department as well (literature, music, videos, hi-fi, computers ...).

In this newsletter there is an interview with Philippe Manoeuvre who presented the famous French programme 'Les Enfants du Rock' on TV in the eighties. On today's music he says: "personne n'arrive à la cheville des Smiths, dernier groupe mythique dans l'histoire du rock" [ no band has equaled the Smiths so far, they are the last mythical band in rock history].

This month the FNAC launches a new commercial deal called TRIBU[TE] (tribu is French for tribe - so it's a pun!): each month a mythical band / singer will be the FNAC's host, their CD's will be displayed at reduced price and there will be a free brochure in which the artist's discography and biography are detailed.

The Smiths are the first band to be honored! It's called "TRIBU[TE] No 1: the best of the Smiths". The selected albums are Hatful, Meat, Queen, and Strangeways...