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Parlophone April 1999

WITH BILLY BRAGG
SINGLES

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

 

ALBUMS

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.

WITH BRYAN FERRY
SINGLES

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

 

ALBUM

Bete Noire

Virgin November 1987

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

WITH TALKING HEADS
SINGLE

(Nothing But) Flowers / Ruby Dear

EMI April 1988

ALBUM

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.’

WITH KIRSTY M
AC
COLL
SINGLES

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

ALBUMS

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

WITH THE PRETENDERS
SINGLE

Windows Of The World / 1969

Polydor April 1989

WITH QUANDO QUANGO

2 From Quando: Atom Rock / Triangle

Factory June 1984

WITH EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL
SINGLE

Native Land / River Bed Dry

Blanco Y Negro September 1984

(Johnny appears on the A-side)

WITH K-KLASS
ALBUM

Universal

Parlophone December 1993

Johnny appears on ‘Las Cassa’

WITH A CERTAIN RATIO
SINGLE

Shack Up / Life’s A Scream

Creation May 1994

WITH BLACK GRAPE
SINGLE

Fat Neck / Yeah Yeah Brother / Pretty Vacant

Radioactive May 1996

WITH M PEOPLE
ALBUM

Fresco

Deconstruction October 1997

WITH MARION
ALBUM

The Program

London September 1998

WITH ANDREW BERRY
SINGLE

Kiss Me I’m Cold / That’s My Business

Fontana July 1990

WITH STEX
SINGLE

Still Feel The Rain / Still Feel The Rain

Some Bizarre January 1991

WITH BANDERAS
SINGLE

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

London February 1991

ALBUM

Ripe

London March 1991

Johnny appears on ‘This Is Your Life’

WITH THE PET SHOP BOYS
SINGLES

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

ALBUMS

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.

WITH BERT JANSCH
ALBUM

Crimson Moon

Castle/When June 2000

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

‘The River Bank.’

WITH BETH ORTON
ALBUM

Daybreaker

Heavenly July 02

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

WITH BECK
ALBUM

Midnight Vultures

Geffen November 1999

WITH NEIL FINN
ALBUM

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.”

WITH HAVEN
ALBUM

(as producer)

 

Between The Senses

Radiate February 2002

 

All For A Reason

Radiate March 2004

WITH OASIS
ALBUM

Heathen Chemistry

July 2002

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

WITH DENISE JOHNSON
SINGLE

Rays Of The Rising Sun / (versions)

Magnet, June 1995

WITH JANE BIRKIN
ALBUM

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.’

WITH MODEST MOUSE
ALBUM

We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

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

JOHNNY MARR & THE HEALERS
SINGLE

The Last Ride / Need It / Long Gone

Pacific October 2001

ALBUM

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

WITH CHARLATANS
ALBUM

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’

WITH LISA GERMANO
ALBUMS

Lullaby For Liquid Pig

Album – Reincarnate May 2003

 

In The Maybe World

Young God July 2006

WITH CROWDED HOUSE
ALBUM

Time on Earth

ATO June 2007

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

SINGLE

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

Capitol June 2007

Johnny appears on the A-side

WITH GIRLS ALOUD
ALBUM

Out of Control

Fascination November 2008

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

WITH JOHN FRUSCIANTE
ALBUM

The Empyrean

Record Collection January 2009

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

SOUNDTRACKS
ALBUMS

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’

WITH MODEST MOUSE
ALBUM

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

EP

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

 

WITH THE CRIBS
ALBUM

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

SINGLE

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

WITH NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS
ALBUM

Chasing Yesterday

Sour Mash February 2015

Johnny appears on ‘Ballad of the Mighty I’

SINGLE

Ballad of the Mighty I

Sour Mash January 2015

SOLO RELEASES
ALBUM

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

SINGLE

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.

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