Johnny Marr is an acclaimed British guitarist who’s played with a ton of bands including, most famously, The Smiths. Marr started playing guitar as a young teenager growing up in Manchester. When he turned 15 he dropped out of school and moved to London to join the band Sister Ray.
A couple years later he would help form The Smiths with Morrissey, Mike Joyce, and Marr’s friend and bassist, Andy Rourke. After The Smiths broke up in 1987, Marr went on to collaborate with an array of different musicians and play in bands like The Pretenders, The The, and Modest Mouse. In the early aughts, Marr started releasing solo material, and he’s on the brink of releasing a new album of his greatest hits.
On today’s episode Justin Richmond talks to Johnny Marr about his exciting work scoring movies with Pharrell and Hans Zimmer. Marr also recalls the terror he felt performing live in front of stadiums full of fans with The Pretenders on U2’s Joshua Tree tour. And he talks about the time he bought a Fender Stratocaster while hanging out with Oasis’ Noel Gallager. That Strat has nine pickups and it eventually led to him writing one the best songs of his solo career.
You can hear a playlist of some of our favorite Johnny Marr songs here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3GAhVOi6RFmXJ01QWmUeQ8?si=6921549a45a74f3d&nd=1
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For generations of music lovers, the liner notes on albums were a central part of the way music was heard. You bought an album and it came with an accompanying narrative: a digression, an aside, a backstory—maybe even an invented history. We intuitively understood that great music required not just listening but conversation between the artist and the audience and the audience and the rest of the world.
Broken Record is a podcast that restarts those conversations—in a world without liner notes—for a new audience of music lovers.
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When it's a J M interview…I listen. One of my favorite musical figures!
Why remove the guitar playing???
gotta love copyrighted material being omitted from an awesome interview .
he is such a GEM his passion at his age is for us all to learn and make sure we can have that momentum…….
Good artists borrow, great artists steal.
I thought you and William Henry wrote What Difference Does It Make and Big Neon Glitter together lol. Nice to hear of this tune/riff you both developed.
Lazy comment for the algo.
nice
Johnny Marr deserves to be famous for being in a much better band. Morrissey completely ruined The Smiths.
Dude, you won't get copyrighted for someone else playing a snippet of a song only on guitar. Covers don't get copyrighted, so that wouldn't even be close. It's pretty weird to listen to a JM interview and have the guitar bits cut, especially when it's songs we never hear him play. I know youtube sucks, but that's just being too careful. There are Loads of interviews of him already on youtube where he plays other people's songs for a little bit. You don't have to censor it
Always a great start when Malc Gladwell isn't involved.
Why did you cut the parts w him playing guitar out?!!! You didn't do it on the Frusciante series? Damn what a major loss! I VOTE FOR A REUPLOAD UNEDITED! Thanks and you're welcome.
he didn't move to London for sister ray
Great guitar player created some great riffs and some wonderful melodies !
Why the hell would you cut out the guitar parts ???
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Do you know my live records that I make are no less quality than the studio records of these people make