Johnny Marr (30 page)

Parlophone April 1999

Levi Stubbs’ Tears / Walk Away Renee (as Duane Tremelo)

Go! Discs June 1986

Greetings To The New Brunette / Deportees / The Tatler 12-inch included ‘Jeane’ and ‘There Is A Power In The Union’

Go! Discs December 1986

Sexuality / One Good Thing / Sexuality

Go! Discs July 1991

Talking With The Taxman About Poetry

- appears on ‘Greetingsˇ’ and ‘The Passion’

Go! Discs September 1986

Don’t Try This At Home

- appears on ‘Cindyˇ’ and ‘Sexuality’

Go! Discs September 1991

Bloke On Bloke

- appears on ‘The Boy Done Good’

Cooking Vinyl June 1997

All Bragg’s compilations are worth owning. According to budget you’ll search out Victim Of Geography, Reaching To The Converted or Must I Paint You A Picture. The re-recorded version of ‘Greetings’, entitled ‘Shirley’ is on Reaching To The Converted.

The Right Stuff / The Right Stuff (remix)

Virgin November 1987

Kiss and Tell / Zamba (Marr on A-side)

Virgin February 1988

Limbo / Limbo Remix)

Virgin June 1988

Bete Noire

Virgin November 1987

Johnny appears on ‘Limbo’, ‘The Right Stuff’, ‘Kiss And Tell’ and ‘Seven Deadly Sins’

(Nothing But) Flowers / Ruby Dear

EMI April 1988

Naked

EMI March 1988

Johnny appears on ‘(Nothing But) Flowers,’ ‘Ruby Dear’, ‘Cool Water’ and ‘Mommy, Daddy, You and I.’ A UK 10-inch version of the single appeared with all of these except for ‘Cool Water.’

Free World / Closer to God / You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet Baby Virgin February 1989

Days / Happy

Virgin June 1989

Walking Down Madison / One Good Thing

Virgin June 1991

Kite

Johnny plays on the majority of tracks, and co-wrote ‘End Of A Perfect Day’ and ‘You And Me Baby.’

Virgin April 1989

Electric Landlady

Johnny plays on ‘Walking Down Madison,’ which he co-wrote, and ‘Children of The Revolution.’

Virgin June 1991

Windows Of The World / 1969

Polydor April 1989

2 From Quando: Atom Rock / Triangle

Factory June 1984

Native Land / River Bed Dry

Blanco Y Negro September 1984

(Johnny appears on the A-side)

Universal

Parlophone December 1993

Johnny appears on ‘Las Cassa’

Shack Up / Life’s A Scream

Creation May 1994

Fat Neck / Yeah Yeah Brother / Pretty Vacant

Radioactive May 1996

Fresco

Deconstruction October 1997

The Program

London September 1998

Kiss Me I’m Cold / That’s My Business

Fontana July 1990

Still Feel The Rain / Still Feel The Rain

Some Bizarre January 1991

This Is Your Life / It’s Written All Over My Face

London February 1991

Ripe

London March 1991

Johnny appears on ‘This Is Your Life’

Can You Forgive Her / Hey Headmaster

Parlophone, June 1993

Various formats included an extra track, Johnny’s guitar/remix version of ‘I Want To Wake Up’

Liberation / Decadence

Parlophone April 1994

Johnny appeared on the B-side.

Beautiful People / Fugitive

EMI October 2009 (Germany)

Johnny plays on A-side

Did You See Me Coming / After The Event / The Former Enfant Terrible / Up And Down (various formats)

Johnny plays on the A-side

Parlophone June 2009

Behaviour

Parlophone October 1990

Johnny appeared on ‘My October Symphony’ and ‘This Must Be The Place.’

Release

Album – Parlophone April 2002

Johnny Appears on eight of the ten tracks

Yes

Parlophone March 2009

Johnny plays guitar on ‘Beautiful People’, ‘Did You See Me Coming,’ ‘Building a Wall,’ and ‘Pandemonium’, and harmonica on the first and last of these.

Crimson Moon

Castle/When June 2000

Johnny appears on ‘Fool’s Mate’, ‘My Donald, ‘Looking For Love’,

‘The River Bank.’

Daybreaker

Heavenly July 02

Johnny co-wrote ‘Concrete Sky’, also released as an EP in July 02 with various other tracks.

Midnight Vultures

Geffen November 1999

Seven Worlds Collide

Parlophone February 2002

Johnny plays guitar and vocals throughout this live collection, taking lead vocal on ‘Down On The Corner.’ He also plays ukulele and harmonica elsewhere. Includes Finn’s version of ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out.’

The Sun Came Out

Columbia / EMI August 2009

Johnny takes writing and vocal credits on “Too Blue,” “Run in the Dust,” and a writing credit on “Learn to Crawl.”

(as producer)

Between The Senses

Radiate February 2002

All For A Reason

Radiate March 2004

Heathen Chemistry

July 2002

Johnny appeared on ‘(Probably) All In The Mind’ and ‘Born On A Different Cloud.’

Rays Of The Rising Sun / (versions)

Magnet, June 1995

Fictions

Album – EMI March 2006

Johnny arranged and plays harmonica and guitar on several tracks, including Neil Hannon’s ‘Home’ and ‘Image Fantome,’ a reading of Debussy’s ‘Pavane Pour Une Infente Defunte.’

We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

Album unreleased at time of going to press. Johnny involved in songwriting and playing.

The Last Ride / Need It / Long Gone

Pacific October 2001

Boomslang

The Last Ride / Caught Up / Down On The Corner / Need It / You Are The Magic / In Betweens / Another Day / Headland / Long Gone / Something To Shout About / Bangin’

On iMusic Feb 2003

Live It Like You Love It: The Best Of The Charlatans live

Album – MCA October 2002

Johnny appeared on stage with The Charlatans and appears on ‘Weirdo’ and ‘Sproston Green’

Lullaby For Liquid Pig

Album – Reincarnate May 2003

In The Maybe World

Young God July 2006

Time on Earth

ATO June 2007

Johnny appears on ‘Don’t Stop Now’ and ‘Even a Child’, co-writing the latter.

Don’t Stop Now / Stare Me Out (various alternative releases and b-sides)

Capitol June 2007

Johnny appears on the A-side

Out of Control

Fascination November 2008

Johnny appears on ‘Rolling Back the Rivers In Time,’ playing guitar and harmonica.

The Empyrean

Record Collection January 2009

Johnny plays on the tracks ‘Enough of Me’ and ‘Central.’

Inception

Reprise July 2010

Johnny appears throughout, notably on the track ‘Here’

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Columbia / Madison Gate Records April 2014

Johnny appears throughout, notably on the track ‘Here’

We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

March Into The Sea / Dashboard / Fire It Up / Florida / Parting Of The Sensory / Missed The Boat / We’ve Got Everything / Fly Trapped In A Jar / Education / Little Motel / Steam Engenius / Spitting Venom / People As Places As People / Invisible

Epic March 2007

No-one’s First And You’re Next

Satellite Skin / Guilty Cocker Spaniels / Autumn Beds / The Whale Song / Perpetual Motion Machine / History Sticks To
Your Feet / King Rat / I’ve Got It All (Most)

Epic August 2009

Dashboard /King Rat

Epic January 2007

Missed the boat

Epic March 2007

Ignore The Ignorant

We Were Aborted / Cheat On Me / We Share The Same Skies / City Of Bugs / Hari Kari / Last Year’s Snow / Emasculate Me / Ignore The Ignorant / Save Your Secrets / Nothing / Victim Of Mass Production / Stick To Yr Guns / Is Anybody There (bonus on iTunes)

Wichita (UK), Warner (USA) and others elsewhere September 2009

Cheat on Me / various b-sides on various releases

Wichita (UK), Warner (USA) and others elsewhere August 2009

We Share The Same Skies / City of Bugs

Wichita (UK), Warner (USA) and others elsewhere November 2009

Chasing Yesterday

Sour Mash February 2015

Johnny appears on ‘Ballad of the Mighty I’

Ballad of the Mighty I

Sour Mash January 2015

The Messenger

The Right Thing Right / I Want The Heartbeat / European Me / Upstarts / Lockdown / The Messenger / Generate! Generate! / Say Demesne / Sun And Moon / The Crack Up / New Town Velocity / Word Starts Attack

Warner February 2013

Playland

Back In The Box / Easy Money / Dynamo / Candidate / 25 Hours / The Trap / Playland / Speak Out Reach Out / Boys Get Straight / This Tension / Little King

Warner October 2014

Life Is Sweet

Echo Records (download) 2010

Theme tune from The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret

Upstarts / Psychic Beginner

Warner February 2013

New Town Velocity / The It-Switch

New Voodoo / Warner November 2013

Easy Money / Use Me Up

New Voodoo / Warner June 2014

Dynamo / Struck

Warner February 2015

I Feel You

New Voodoo / Warner April 2015

Depeche Mode cover, released in support of Record Store Day

Candidate / Exit Connection

New Voodoo / Warner June 2015

T
here have been many books written about The Smiths. Some of them are rotten, some are excellent. The two most important references are:

Songs That Saved Your Life
by Simon Goddard

Reynolds & Hearn, London (London 2002)

The Smiths: A Visual Documentary
by Johnny Rogan

Omnibus Press, London (1993)

Goddard’s book approaches the story of The Smiths through their recording sessions, and follows each song or track from its inception to its release and beyond, thereby telling the story of The Smiths themselves – one of the best rock music books in print. Rogan’s
Visual Documentary
is a day-by-day, year-by-year account of the
band.
Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance
(Omnibus Press 1992), also by Rogan, was the first serious look at the history of The Smiths.

Also referred to in the text are:

Manchester England
by Dave Haslam

Fourth Estate, London (2000)

Haslam’s is a superbly readable history of the music business – largely its musical history – in Manchester, from the Victorian era to the present day. Not just a great book about Manchester, but a fine read in itself.

In Session Tonight
by Ken Garner

BBC Books, London (1993)

Even more since his death, John Peel’s legacy is immeasurable. For anyone who listened to Peel over the years, this is a wonderfully readable account of the various sessions recorded not just for Peel but for other Radio One shows such as Kid Jensen and Janice Long.

The Right To Imagination And Madness
by Martin Roach

Independent Music Press, London (1994)

A superb collection of interviews with some of indie and left-field rock’s most inspiring voices… not least the largest single interview in book form with Johnny Marr.

Morrissey: The Scandal And The Passion
by David Brett

Robson, London (2002)

Not loved by many - the book took too great an interest in Morrissey’s sexuality for most readers - but there are some interesting interviews included, whether one agrees with the authors’ premises or not.

David Nolan’s Granada TV documentary
These Things Take Time
(2002) was an interesting take on The Smiths, using specially commissioned cartoon versions of the band instead of the real McCoy to illustrate Vic Reeves’ commentary. It also included a number of valuable interviews with members of the Smiths’ entourage.