Latest Release
- 3 NOV 2023
- 24 Songs
- Spirit Power: The Best of Johnny Marr · 2019
- Playland · 2014
- Call the Comet · 2018
- Call the Comet · 2018
- Call the Comet · 2018
- Call the Comet · 2018
- The Priest - Single · 2017
- Freeheld (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 2015
- The Messenger · 2013
- Freeheld (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 2015
Albums
- 2018
- 2014
- 2013
- 2024
- 2023
- 2021
Artist Playlists
Compilations
Appears On
More To Hear
- Ezra and Jake talk with Johnny Marr, plus a Goldfish taste test.
- Jehnny asks King Krule, Karen O + more for insight on our times.
- Matt and guests talk about their essential winter songs.
- The legendary Marr joins Matt for the release of Call The Comet.
- The Smiths' guitarist in a candid chat.
About Johnny Marr
What hasn’t Johnny Marr achieved in his career? The Manchester native first rose to prominence as the guitarist for ’80s mope-rock merchants The Smiths, for whom he provided crisp, jangly riffs. After leaving the band in 1987, he diversified, becoming an in-demand sideman—he played with Talking Heads, The The and The Pretenders—and formed another band, the synth-heavy Electronic, with New Order’s Bernard Sumner. Marr’s good fortune continued in the following decades, as he later joined U.S. indie icons Modest Mouse for a few years, appearing on 2007’s We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, and Wakefield rock band The Cribs. For good measure, Marr then launched what would become a successful solo career—starting in 2013 with The Messenger—that emphasises his long-held affinity for glam rock, folk, punk and the poetic bent of Patti Smith. However, as further proof of his unwillingness to be pigeonholed, he contributed guitar to Billie Eilish’s award-winning 2020 James Bond theme “No Time To Die”.
- HOMETOWN
- Manchester, England
- BORN
- 31 October 1963
- GENRE
- Alternative