Johnny Marr
Mancunian maestro Johnny Marr shares his musical milestones with Matt Everitt. Including his earliest memories, his first fumbled grapplings with the guitar, and meeting Morrissey.
Mancunian maestro Johnny Marr shares his musical milestones with Matt Everitt. Inlcuding his first fumbled grapplings with a guitar and his initial, and crucial, meeting with Morrissey leading to the formation of the Smiths. The programme also explores his post-Smiths career and collaborations with the Pretenders, Electronic, Modest Mouse and the Cribs.
First broadcast in 2010.
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Clips
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Johnny Marr on Electronic
Duration: 03:36
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Johnny Marr on meeting Morrissey
Duration: 04:40
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Johnny Marr on first discovering music
Duration: 05:46
Music Played
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The Smiths
What Difference Does It Make
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Dusty Springfield
I Only Want To Be With You
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The Supremes
Stop in the Name of Love
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David Bowie
Suffragette City
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Ben E. King
Young Boy Blues
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Pete Shelley
Homosapien
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The Smiths
How Soon Is Now?
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Hamilton Bohannon - Disco Stomp
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The Gun Club
Run Through the Jungle
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The Pretenders
1969
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Electronic
get the message
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Johnny Marr + The Healers
Last Ride
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The Cribs
We Share the Same Skies
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Pete Shelley
Homosapien
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The Temptations
Shakey Ground
- Tamla Motown.
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Johnny Marr
The Answer
- New Voodoo.
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The Cribs
We Share The Same Skies (Reading + Leeds 2015)
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Brassy
Play Some D
- WIIIJA.
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John Lennon
Gimme Some Truth
- Parlophone.
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The Human League
Hard Times
- Virgin.
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