Johnny Marr

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Music, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

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.

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1:01.4	Johnny Marr is maybe the last in a line of acclaimed British guitars.
1:06.2	He's played with tons of bands, including most famously The Smiths.
1:10.6	Marr started playing guitar as a young teenager growing up in Manchester.
1:14.0	When he turned 15, he dropped out of school and moved to London to join the band Sister
1:18.2	Ray.
1:19.2	A couple years later, he wound up helping to form The Smiths, with Morrissey, Mike Joyce,
1:23.8	and Marr's friend and bassist Andy Warck.
1:26.6	Then after The Smiths broke up in 87, he went on to collaborate with an array of different
1:31.2	musicians and playing bands like The Pretenders, The Duh, and even later, Modest Mouse.
1:38.3	In the early arts, Marr started releasing solo material, and he's on the brink of releasing
1:42.8	a new album full of the best songs from his solo career.
1:47.5	On today's episode, I talked to Johnny Marr about his exciting work in the studio with
1:51.2	Ferrellan on Zimmer.
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