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| | Johnny Marr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Johnny Marr (born John Martin Maher on 31 October 1963 in Ardwick, Manchester) is a British guitarist, keyboardist, harmonica player and singer, best known as the man behind the music of The Smiths. | | | The band took two years to complete, because Marr wanted members to be chosen "by chemistry." The debut of the new band was released in 2003, where Marr sang and wrote the lyrics. | | | Marr, in The Smiths, was known for a delicate, angelically sweet guitar style that could evoke musicality from just a few well-chosen notes. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Marr
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| | wbur.org Arts - Music - A Legend Returns |
| | The music of Johnny Marr and the Healers is a departure from the composer's early sound, shaped in the late '80s, but it doesn't forsake its spirit. | | | As a composer and performer, Johnny Marr is inventive and laid back: his music aches of Britpop, but his lyrics proffer simple, heartfelt sentimentality. | | | Marr's music ranges from the fervent and the wistful to the lulling; he weaves in and out of styles, sounds, and decades with ease. |
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http://www.wbur.org/arts/2003/49822_20030203.asp
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| | Johnny Marr |
| | JOHNNY MARR is to release a solo album this summer and is set to tour with his new band, THE HEALERS. | | | JOHNNY MARR is to release an album this year with a new outfit called The Healers - and he will sing lead vocals on the LP. | | | The band was composed of Johnny on vocals and guitar, a second guitarist, a bassist, drummer, and percussionist. |
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http://vu.morrissey-solo.com/moz/news/marr.htm
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| | NME.COM - News - SWEET, JOHNNY! |
| | Marr has signed to web-based label iMusic, who will release the album in the US. | | | Former Smiths guitarist JOHNNY MARR has signed a new label deal and is set to finally release his long mooted, as yet untitled, debut album from his band the HEALERS in January 2003. | | | The album will contain 11 new songs, each written by Marr, and reportedly move off in a heavier direction than Smiths fans might expect. |
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http://www.nme.com/news/102536.htm
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| | Why Johnny Marr sings (Metro Times Detroit) |
| | Marr’s lyrics worked their way onto the last couple of Electronic albums but this would be the first opportunity to voice his own concerns one-on-one with the audience. | | | Marr had time to think of other options when Electronic went on permanent hiatus after releasing their third album. | | | Marr’s own guitar hero worship is obvious in the first few bars of “In Between,” which echoes Hendrix’s “Voodoo Chile” right down to its maraca shakes. |
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http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=4503
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| | Talk:Johnny Marr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Marr's Smiths-era guitar playing, while indeed technically intricate, and perhaps much more so than hair metal guitar parts, was never actually intended to compete with metal anyway. | | | Seems like whoever wrote this is defending Marr's guitar style by saying it's considerably more difficult to play than most "hair metal" solos. | | | Hi Domukaz -- I did not write this article, but I do think it could use a bit of refinement especially since parts of it sound a bit more like a fan page than an objective biography of the artist. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Johnny_Marr
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| | New York Press |
| | Johnny Marr and the Healers’ new album, Boomslang, is out now on imusic. | | | It wasn’t hard for Marr to be honest on this record, since for the first time in his career, he wrote the lyrics to every song himself. | | | The record is more guitar-driven rock than Manchester mope, which is appropriate, coming from a man once lauded as a guitar god on par with Hendrix, Clapton and Page. |
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http://www.nypress.com/print.cfm?content_id=7782
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Boomslang: Music |
| | Marr has a natural singing voice as other reviewers have commented upon and his lyrics while not inspiring or quotable aren't shamefully bad, the music itself is somewhat what is to blame it all sounds a bit samey escept for in some cases. | | | Johnny Marr's post-Smiths output has always been varied, but when he finally steps out of the shadows of other frontmen for this solo album the result is a spectacular misfire. | | | Johnny's voice is OK, but his thin voice sends you straight to the lyric sheet to understand what he's singing about, and then straight back again when you realise the mumbling lyrics done really mean anything - like the music they're vague and meandering. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00007L6RW
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| | BBC - Tyne Music - The Johnny Marr interview |
| | Johnny Marr has just released a remarkably good album with his new band, and The Old Hall of the Melkweg was the ideal venue to see him, a week before his dates in London and Manchester, in much bigger venues. | | | Legendary guitarist Johnny Marr took time out from his European tour to have a cup of tea and a chat with our well travelled music reporter Charles S Bravo. | | | His partnership with Bernard Sumner from New Order under Electronic produced four superb albums, but Johnny Marr finally put himself out to front his own band in 2000. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/tyne/music/2003/05/johnny_marr.shtml
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| | Shoplifters Union - Johnny Marr |
| | Johnny Marr has co-written and played guitar on some of her songs. | | | Boz Boorer produced 3 of her songs, Perfect Day on the Galore album, Irish Cousin and The Butcher Boy on the Caroline CD single. | | | He was on tour with them (six dates), co-wrote several songs with Hynde and played on the album Windows Of The World (1989). |
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http://shoplifters.morrissey-solo.com/marr.html
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| | Kathy's Zak Starkey Site: Johnny Marr's Healers |
| | Early in 2002, it was reported that Johnny had been in LA remixing and recording finishing touches to the Healers album. | | | November of 2004, Johnny appeard on Soccer AM, saying he was halfway through recording the new Healers album, and that he'd already missed the record company's deadline, reckoning it would be out in March '05. | | | The sound of the record is described by Marr himself as: |
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http://www.kathyszaksite.com/jmarr.html
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| | Hear/Say: America's College Music Magazine - Features - Interviews - Johnny Marr |
| | Johnny Marr: It was never my intention to make a solo record unless all the pieces fell into place. | | | Again, Marr's hectic schedule with other groups (including Neil Finn, Oasis, and Haven) put The Healers on the backburner through early 2002, after which they finally confined themselves to the studio in preparation for a winter 2003 release. | | | Not only does the group feature Marr on vocals for the first time in his career, but it also marks a collaborative debut with The Who session drummer Zak Starkey and ex-Kula Shaker bassist Alonza Bevan. |
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http://www.hearsay.cc/features/interviews/06-07-03-03/JohnnyMARR.html
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| | Poll: How much coverage should Johnny Marr have on this site? |
| | johnny does deserve a certain amount of respect for the contribution he has made not only to music, but to our lives--he is as much responsible for saving mine as morrissey is. where would iwe be without the intoxicating mix of johnny's chords to take us away and moz's voice/words to take shelter in. | | | Even though Johnny is a great guitar player, it seems that we have evidence enough that without Morrissey, his music lacks something special. | | | Johnny still rocks, and is easily the most talented of The Smiths. |
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http://www.morrissey-solo.com/polls/poll24.shtml
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| | Johnny Marr Interview |
| | On the Healer's debut album, "Boomslang," Marr has written all the songs. | | | The bank is composed of bass player Alonzo Bevin from Kula Shaker and drummer Zak Starkey, son of Ringo Starr and drummer for The Who during their 2002 tour of the United States. | | | Writing songs and singing lead vocal is a first for Johnny. |
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http://www.dcsi.net/~bluesky/jmarr.htm
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| | Interview Archive - Guitar Anti-Hero |
| | On a Johnny Marr record, the song speaks first, while repeated listenings reveal the richness of the accompaniment. | | | Johnny's playing on the band's Mind Bomb album is as colorful -- and understated -- as ever. | | | His oddball chord sequences and jarring major/minor melody clashes were leavened by a Beatlesesque sense of melody and an Olympic-sized palette of guitar tones. |
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http://foreverill.com/interviews/post87/antihero.htm
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| | Kathy's Zak Starkey Site: Johnny Marr + the Healers - Boomslang |
| | Earlier in 2002, Johnny was said to have been in LA remixing and recording to put the 'at last' finishing touches on the album. | | | At the end of July 2002, it was announced that Johnny Marr's Healers had signed with imusic (Artists Direct) with the Healers core members being listed as Johnny, Zak Starkey and Alonza Bevan, and the CD was due in January 2003. | | | The CD, once rumored to be called Play Dumb, then said to be titled Boomslang, was hoped to have been released in the UK before the end of 2000, and again in the Spring of 2001. |
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http://www.kathyszaksite.com/boomslang.html
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| | Johnny Marr + the Healers: Boomslang - PopMatters Music Review |
| | Johnny Marr + the Healers: Boomslang - PopMatters Music Review | | | As far as the music goes, it is strange to witness how Marr now seems to be following in the footsteps of the bands he influenced. | | | Maybe that is the negative side effect of Marr waiting so long to make his proper solo debut: The sound he pioneered is now such old hat that it doesn't even sound that interesting coming from the source anymore. |
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http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/m/marrjohnny-boomslang.shtml
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| | Johnny Marr & The Healers |
| | Thinking about those artists, Marr's album, "Boomslang," sounds a little bit like each of them. | | | The success of "Boomslang" comes from as much from Marr's fascinating fretwork as it does with impressive songwriting. | | | Instrumentally, "Boomslang" sounds a bit like some of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' stuff. |
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| | BBC - Manchester Music - Johnny Marr |
| | The crowd tried manfully to rally behind him on one of the dirge-like slow burners by holding their cigarette lighters aloft, but it was the tunes with Marr's inimitable spiky chunks of guitar mastery that got the punters bouncing. | | | And with occasional flashes of brilliance and plenty of Marr's vintage guitar there was enough to keep his fans happy. | | | When he first formed the Healers, Marr never intended taking the microphone himself. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/music/2003/04/02/marr.shtml
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| | Arts Unlimited Arts features Gold Smith |
| | Marr was first aware of Jansch, who has since become a friend, after seeing Pentangle play a concert that was broadcast on television when he was 14. | | | Marr: 'there are things that can be done with an acoustic guitar and a voice that I find more interesting than standing on stage with four geezers in leather jackets' | | | The first is Andrew Loog Oldham, the teenage svengali and recent subject of Home Entertainment who managed the Rolling Stones and fashioned their image; and the second is Keith Richards, whose louche, ragged style has become the template for generations of rock guitarists. |
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http://arts.guardian.co.uk/homeentertainment/story/0,12830,1230797,00.html
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| | MAGNET Interview: Johnny Marr |
| | They don’t need to be in a band with Johnny Marr for their lives to be complete. | | | While Boomslang may not be privy to the hyperliterate lyricism of Marr’s past vocal collaborators, it’s got a kind of (Northern) soul that words can’t manufacture. | | | His trademark 12-string jangle peacefully coexists with backward-guitar leads and groovy percussion in psych-friendly, four-to-seven-minute tracks. |
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| | Johnny Marr & The Healers: Boomslang (2003): Reviews |
| | Boomslang is the album Marr fans have been waiting a lifetime for. | | | Left to his own devices here, Marr has penned vague lyrics and delivered them in a monotone, coupled with uninspired melodies that only underline the singer's limitations. | | | It is so sad to see Johnny Marr playsing such an awful sound (a kind of parody of Oasis). |
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http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/johnnymarrandthehealers/boomslang
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| | XTC Forum - johnny marr |
| | Johnny plays guitar on it and also takes lead vocal on a song called "Down on the Corner" which is quite nice. | | | The name of the outfit with whom he played some Oasis shows is Johnny Marr's Healers, which included Ringo Starr's son on drums. | | | Apparently they recorded an album in 2000, called "Play Dumb", but have yet to find a label to release it. |
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| | Live & On Record JOHNNY MARR + THE HEALERS |
| | Smiths fans, meanwhile, have been primed for a proper Marr solo album for more than a decade. | | | Boston has always been receptive to emerging British artists, and as the musical man behind Morrissey’s maudlin moods, Marr is Brit-pop royalty. | | | The band politely absorbed the crowd’s energy and sent it flowing back through the PA speakers as a warmly melodic, electrified pulse of well-crafted neo-psychedelic grooves. |
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http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/music/live/documents/02671912.htm
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| | Johnny Marr + The Healers: Boomslang: Pitchfork Review |
| | Dragged down by the fear of stamping his name on the record cover, Marr offers up an emotionless tribute to his favorite songs of the last ten years, hoping to slide by without asking anything of his audience. | | | Without a frontman to inspire him-- a megalomaniac to draw away the cameras, the critics, and consequently, the pressure-- Marr is unable to create more of the stunning, original guitar progressions he made his name on. | | | Marr offers nothing in the way of inventive guitar on Boomslang, a disc of barre chord throwaways you'd only expect from demos leaked by an unscrupulous associate. |
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http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/m/marr_johnny/boomslang.shtml
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| | EvilSponge: Concert: JOHNNY MARR & THE HEALERS w/ Palo Alto and Film |
| | And now, after years of musical silence, he has released a new album and gone on tour. | | | I will review the disc at some point, but let me sum up for you: right now Johnny Marr wants to be revered as a Guitar God, like Clapton or Page or Stevie Ray Vaughn. | | | Which means that The Healers wind up sounding to my ears like a derivative, Rolling Stones influenced band, the likes of which plague the Earth these days. |
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| | Jeff and Jay Meet Johnny Marr |
| | Johnny just smiled and said that he was just starting to become aware of the impact that the song has had. | | | While there was a break in the sound check, Johnny came over and noticed that Jeff had a guitar with him. | | | DOWN ON THE CORNER* (Healers song- Johnny Marr on vocals) |
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http://jaytando.tripod.com/jeff-and-jay-meet-johnny-marr
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| | Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival |
| | It was then that Marr and the Healers crafted their debut album in Manchester, England. | | | Since then, the music icon has recorded three albums with Bernard Sumner as an electronic craftsman, and has produced two albums as a member of the musically eccentric social commentators The The. | | | Lacking a vocalist, Marr became the interim singer, until the proper person came a long, but the rest of the band pulled him aside and said: We want you to sing, your voice sounds right," recalls Marr. |
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http://www.goldenvoice.com/coachella/artists/john_marr.html
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| | - JOHNNY MARR & THE HEALERS - |
| | Since then, he has recorded three albums with Bernard Sumner as Electronic, and has made two albums and toured extensively as a member of the musically eccentric social commentators The The. | | | In the meantime Johnny was doing live shows with Neil Finn, producing and playing on Haven's album and writing songs with Beth Orton and Liam Gallagher, work which benefited the band indirectly. | | | In The Smiths, he was the guitarist and fifty percent of the hallowed song-writing partnership: Morrissey (words) and Marr (music). |
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http://www.artistdirectrecords.com/imusic/mediatoolkit/johnnymarr/johnnymarr_bio_us.html
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| | Johnny Marr + the Healers |
| | The disc is either the best T.Rex album in more than 30 years or the best Oasis release in about a half-dozen. | | | The founding guitarist of the '80s English band spent post-Smiths stints with such groups as Electronic and the Pretenders, plus guest cameos aplenty on various recordings. | | | The album's lead single, "Down on the Corner," recalls '80s contemporaries Love and Rockets, a strummed opening giving way to a surging refrain, while the slide-guitar-driven "InBetweens" evoked the Smiths tunewise but without a whit of nostalgia. |
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/icopyright_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1808641
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| | IGN: Johnny Marr & The Healers |
| | They followed this rager with "Caught Up," which is the second song on the album. | | | Marr's vocal stylings bring to mind Daniel Ash during the hey day of Love & Rockets--it's got that sultry, hipster swoon to it. | | | Is it loud enough?" He then strummed in to the laid back folky intonations of "Down On The Corner", which is the third track on the band's album. |
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http://music.ign.com/articles/384/384741p1.html
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| | Eye - Q&A : Johnny Marr - 01.23.03 |
| | Still only 39, Marr has finally done what many expected he'd do back in '88: he's minted his own band in the form of Johnny Marr and The Healers, who drop their debut album, Boomslang, Feb. 4. | | | Johnny Marr and The Healers play Lee's Palace Sunday (Jan. 26). | | | Talking over the phone from Hoboken, New Jersey, the affable Marr admits with a chuckle that he has to "keep telling myself that these shows aren't auditions." |
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http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_01.23.03/music/marr.html
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| | Rock for Learning features JOHNNY MARR & THE HEALERS |
| | Johnny brings a sunrise of brilliant sound into the new Millennium with his new album Boomslang newly signed and released in February 2003 with great new songs as, Down on the Corner, Bangin‘ On, I Need It, You Are the Magic, and more. | | | Lights colorfully flashing, guitar slinging, on stage with bassist, Alonsa Bevan (Kula Shaker), keyboardist, Lee Spencer, and powerhouse drummer, Zak Starkey (The Who), Johnny Marr shines in his own light as front-man lead singer and guitarist. | | | It’s powerhouse drummer, Zak Starkey, a Healer with energy like no other born of The Beatles‘ Ringo Starr (Starkey) and previously resounding on drums with The Who (1996-2002). |
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| | Interview Archive - The Secret History |
| | They are about to release their final studio album, 'Strangeways Here We Come,' a record that will confound many and remains arguably their strangest album. | | | And I still do..." Johnny Marr breaks a three year silence to talk about life in the pilot seat of the greatest British band since The Beatles. | | | He has now spent longer as a guitarist, producer, songwriter and member of The The and Electronic than he did as a Smith but, with a mixture of pride and exasperation, he acknowledges the long shadow his old band casts over British pop culture. |
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http://foreverill.com/interviews/post87/secret.htm
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| | In Music We Trust - Johnny Marr + the healers: Boomslang |
| | On their debut CD, Boomslang, Marr and company infuse Brit-pop, psychedelia, and acoustic pop into their own brand of rock. | | | One of the top ten guitarists of all time, Smiths' legend Johnny Marr has assembled a new band, the healers. | | | Instead, they get the chance to build everything back from the ground up, complimenting and downplaying their efforts to allow the acoustic guitar plenty of room to lead them. |
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http://www.inmusicwetrust.com/articles/56r31.html
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| | JOHNNY MARR & THE HEALERS |
| | In August of 2002 Marr released the news that he had finally found a label and his record (now called Boomslang) would be released in January of 2003 Ñ Jack LV Isles | | | Unfortunately, the record rumored to be titled Play Dumb had not found a label to release it and therefore continued to sit on the shelf. | | | The closest to an actual solo outing was with Bernard Sumner as one half of Electronic Ñ; but that still felt much like the Morrissey/Marr hierarchy as Bernard handled most of the lyric writing and singing and Marr controlled the guitar and much of the programming and production. |
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| | Ink 19 :: Johnny Marr |
| | Their music marked the end of synthesizer-driven new wave and the beginning of the guitar-heavy sound that dominated English rock way into the '90s. | | | I know you're an obsessive music fan and record collector so I wanted to ask you some questions about your favorite songs from your childhood and teenage years. | | | As you say in your song, "you are the magic." |
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http://www.ink19.com/issues/may2003/interviews/johnnyMarr.html
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| | Neumu - 44.1kHz |
| | As evidenced by most of this album, having Marr sing was not a good decision. | | | This comes as a surprise, considering that Marr so artfully contrasted a bright guitar sound and engaging melodies against Morrissey's oft-depressing yelping and crooning. | | | Left to his own devices here, Marr has penned vague lyrics and delivered them in a monotone, coupled with uninspired melodies that only underline the singer's limitations. |
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http://neumu.net/fortyfour/2003/2003-00041/2003-00041_fortyfour.shtml
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| | Already a legend, now he's become a Healer / Ex-Smiths' Johnny Marr to play Bimbo's |
| | Since leaving his iconic first band, the Smiths, in 1987, the instrumental half of the Morrissey-Marr songwriting team has watched his legacy grow with ensuing generations, as new waves of fans glom on to the late British band's achingly addictive seven-album repertoire. | | | If "Boomslang" doesn't play like the Smiths or any other music Marr has played since leaving a truculent Morrissey to his own devices, it's because the guitarist has spent the past 15 years soaking up new sounds. | | | From playing in bands like The The and Electronic (with New Order's Bernard Sumner) to collaborating with the likes of Beck, Beth Orton, the Pretenders and the Talking Heads, he's chosen to imbibe multiple genres while resisting pressure to launch what he considered would be a premature solo project. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/01/29/DD131016.DTL&type=printable
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| | Johnny Marr and the Healers: Boomslang ---Ink Blot Magazine |
| | Johnny Marr: vocals, guitars, keyboards Alonza Bevan: bass, piano Zak Starkey: drums | | | If all this sounds like damning with faint praise, that's a bit misleading: there are some strong songs here (opener "The Last Ride," is particularly sneaky) and the guitar playing, despite the dated Quoasis distortion, is much defter than your average Noelrocker's. | | | Why not just call the record Northern Uproar, John? |
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| | SoundStage! Johnny Marr + the Healers - Boomslang |
| | Full of lushness, texture, and delicacy, Boomslang is by turns anthemic and chilled, showcasing Marr as a gifted pop stylist who steals liberally from the many bands who once stole from him. | | | The Smiths made magnificently moody pop for morose English teens fed up with punk and looking for a reason to love music again. | | | Boomslang revels in a feeling of musical lethargy, but these tightly woven songs stick to your ears like glue. |
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| | Johnny Marr & The Healers - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
| | JOHNNY MARR AND THE HEALERS new album, Boomslang is now available everywhere! | | | Find Johnny Marr & The Healers lyrics at: | | | Johnny Marr & The Healers - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
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| | British Rock Band Muse |
| | I'm somewhat obsessed with the British rock band Muse, and one day would like to be able to play my electric guitar as well as Matthew Bellamy plays his. | | | British alternative rock band's discography and gigography are available, as are MP3s, tour scoop, tablature, lyrics, message board, images, press, and news. | | | Access a biography and discography for the British rock band, whose career got kick-started with a little help from Smiths member Johnny Marr. |
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