138: Romance Rocks! (w/ special guest Johnny Marr)

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🗓️ 1 July 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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From The Beach Boys to The Smiths to White Lion — tales of teenagers who were inspired by rock to make their greatest romantic fantasies a reality. Featuring a very special appearance by Johnny Marr (The Smiths, Modest Mouse).

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0:00.0	Radio Tapio.
0:04.0	From PRX.
0:10.0	Dear Diary.
0:11.0	6th grade. February 14th.
0:13.0	1991.
0:14.0	I am really depressed.
0:15.0	How could she break up with me?
0:17.0	Mom, you can't read this.
0:25.0	My first ever real love was this guitar
0:29.0	I was absolutely obsessed by.
0:31.0	That was a little toy.
0:33.0	Wooden thing, and this would have been in 1968, 1969.
0:37.0	And it was in the window of a corner store down the end of my street.
0:43.0	Long before he formed one of the most influential rock bands of all time, The Smiths.
0:48.0	Johnny Marr was just a kid in Manchester, whose first love sounded less like this.
0:53.0	To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.
0:59.0	And more like this.
1:02.0	At first, Johnny's mom was not having it.
1:06.0	Every time she would walk past a shop, and this thing was in the window, I would have to stop and look at it.
1:11.0	She had to kind of pull me along like a little puppy on a leash, you know.
1:14.0	I just wouldn't get away from this thing.
1:16.0	It was right at the end of our street, so we would walk past it a couple of times every day.
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