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Johnny Marr

January 2024

  • a side-by-side image of Morrissey, Donald Trump, and Johnny Marr

    ‘Please let me get what I want’: can artists stop politicians from using their songs?

  • A Night With The Johnny Marr Orchestra At Factory International<br>MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 07: Johnny Marr performs during A Night With The Johnny Marr Orchestra at Factory International on December 07, 2023 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Matthew McNulty/Redferns)

    Johnny Marr blasts Donald Trump for playing the Smiths song at rally

December 2023

  • Frankly, the Smiths

    ‘I feel more like myself when I’m Morrissey’: the bizarre lives of tribute acts

  • A Night With The Johnny Marr Orchestra At Factory International<br>MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 07: Johnny Marr performs during A Night With The Johnny Marr Orchestra at Factory International on December 07, 2023 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Matthew McNulty/Redferns)

    A Night With the Johnny Marr Orchestra review – ‘pumped symphonic’ classics

October 2023

  • Johnny Marr with his sherwood green signature Fender Jaguar in London in 2015.

    ‘They came with Smiths songs in them’: Johnny Marr on his favourite guitars – in pictures

    The guitarist, once of the Smiths, has released a new book, Marr’s Guitars, telling his life story through the instruments that define his distinctive style. It is out now, published by Thames & Hudson, priced £45.
  • A still from Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie (2023)

    Brief letters
    Pity poor parents on unending Paw Patrol

    Brief letters: Adventure city | Overcrowded prisons | Hemingway’s sports | Game shooting | Dilettante v amateur
  • Each one tells a story … Johnny Marr in his studio with a small fraction of his guitar collection.

    ‘Mind-boggling’: Johnny Marr on his 53 favourite guitars – and the one Noel Gallagher smashed

    They were used to write Smiths classics like Still Ill and What Difference Does It Make? As the star publishes a coffee-table book telling the stories of his most adored guitars, he remembers the loan to Noel that made him give up booze

June 2023

  • The Pretenders on the Park stage at Glastonbury festival with Dave Grohl and Johnny Marr.

    The Pretenders at Glastonbury review – Chrissie Hynde in the pocket with Johnny Marr and Dave Grohl

  • The Smiths in 1987.

    A light that never goes out: why the Smiths are eternally influential

May 2023

  • Morrissey and Johnny Marr of the Smiths in 1984.

    ‘An astounding rush of real-time creativity’: 40 years of the Smiths’ Peel Sessions

    Not everyone finds it easy to listen to the Smiths now, but those early transmissions were utterly formative for this vital new band and their enraptured fans
  • The Smiths performing live on the Channel 4 TV show The Tube in 1984: from left, Andy Rourke, Mike Joyce on drums, Morrissey and Johnny Marr.

    Andy Rourke obituary

    Bassist with the Smiths whose distinctive melodic style was central to the band’s sound
  • Alexis Petridis

    Andy Rourke was the other melodic genius in the Smiths: spry, funky and masterful

    Alexis Petridis
    Rourke’s propulsive basslines worked in perfect tandem with Johnny Marr’s guitar parts to create the Smiths’ singular sound

November 2022

  • Johnny Marr performs with his son, Nile Marr, and his band Man Made at the Night &amp; Day Cafe in 2016.

    Club culture
    ‘It would be the death of culture’: Manchester’s Night & Day venue faces moment of truth

    Court battle over noise complaint will decide future of famous music club, which has hosted Johnny Marr, the Charlatans, Arctic Monkeys and Ed Sheeran

May 2022

  • John McGeoch playing with Siouxsie and the Banshees.

    ‘Invention, grace and bloodlust ballet’: post-punk guitarist John McGeoch

    McGeoch sent a jolt through the scene with Magazine, Siouxsie Sioux and more. Johnny Marr, James Dean Bradfield and others salute an overlooked musician

March 2022

  • Johnny Marr

    Johnny Marr: Fever Dreams Pts 1-4 review – dancefloor-friendly double album

    Marr trades post-punk guitar for energetic electro-indie in a hopeful, pandemic-processing 16-track opus

February 2022

  • Adeel Akhtar

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography

  • Johnny Marr

    You ask the questions
    Johnny Marr: ‘When I play Smiths songs I experience this huge wave of elation’

January 2022

  • ‘It won’t come as any surprise when I say that I’m really close with everyone I’ve worked with – except for the obvious one’ … (L-R) Morrissey and Marr in 1987.

    There is a fight that never goes out: Morrissey accuses Johnny Marr of using him as clickbait

  • Johnny Marr performing at the Roundhouse in London, 2019.

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July 2020

  • Denise Johnson singing with A Certain Ratio at The Big Chill festival, 2005.

    'She gold-plated songs': Denise Johnson, the voice of Manchester's dancefloors

    Nineties bands in need of rave vocals looked to the late Johnson, whose rich, fiery voice alchemised their music into something else entirely
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