PITTSBURGH â As a child of the '70s, Joe Manganiello was a little young to appreciate The Smiths when the British rock band's debut album dropped in 1984.
Even though the brand broke up just three years later, The Smiths were still a force when he got to Mt. Lebanon High School in the early '90s.
"The Mt. Lebanon High School theater club was very much into The Smiths," Manganiello told the Post-Gazette. "When I started crossing over from athletics into doing plays my senior year, I got a ton of tapes with Smiths songs on them and all the other great indie bands of the time. That was the music I listened to during that very formative period."