Johnny Marr: Last News

Billie Eilish could soon be halfway to an EGOT!The seven-time GRAMMY winner landed her first Oscar nomination on Tuesday, scoring a Best Original Song nod for «No Time to Die» from the 2021 James Bond film of the same name.Eilish was nominated alongside her brother and creative partner, Finneas, for scoring the opening credits to Daniel Craig's 007 swan song. However, due to COVID-19 theater restrictions, «No Time to Die» was actually released in May 2020, a year and a half before its accompanying film would hit theaters.Following the news of their nomination, Billie and Finneas released a statement to ET, saying, «Words cannot describe how honored and excited we are to have been nominated for an Academy Award for our song 'No Time To Die.' It was a lifelong dream of ours to write a Bond theme, and one we never thought would ever come true.

Johnny Marr says that The Smiths “never fell out over politics,” but that they “probably would now.”Marr and songwriting partner Morrissey have had a number of high-profile beefs in the press since the band split up in the late 1980s, with Morrissey most recently asking Marr to stop mentioning him when giving interviews.In a new interview with The Guardian, Marr was posed questions by fans and celebrities about The Smiths, his solo work and beyond.In the interview, Marr was asked by Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham: “Did the Smiths ever fall out over football or politics?”Marr replied: “We never discussed football so that’s that. And we never fell out over politics, but we probably would now.”A subsequent question from a fan then said: “Morrissey’s recent political views have cast a shadow over the Smiths for me – reaching back into the past and tainting something that was very important to me. I’m so disappointed in him.

Johnny Marr has revealed that he was so excited about working on the No Time To Die James Bond theme that he had to call his mum.In addition to working with Billie Eilish and her brother/producer Finneas on the theme song, the former Smiths guitarist wrote the soundtrack for the 25th big screen outing for 007 with his longtime collaborator and soundtrack legend Hans Zimmer.Speaking to his friend, writer and broadcaster Jon Savage in the latest issue of Rolling Stone UK, Marr discussed playing the famous Bond riff on guitar for the No Time To Die theme.“That really was a highlight,” he said, laughing. “When I did it, I went and phoned my mum, ‘Guess what I’ve just done, Mum!”He also talked about how working with Zimmer on the scores for both No Time To Die and Christopher Nolan’s 2010 action sci-fi Inception changed his writing and inspired a more cinematic type of production.“I’d say that working with Hans has brought that in,” he told Savage.

Johnny Marr has responded to an open letter from his former Smiths bandmate Morrissey in which the latter asked the former to stop talking about him in interviews. Short version: I don’t think it’s worked.This all seems to have been triggered by that recent interview in which Marr said that he was still friends with all the people he’s been in bands with over the years “except for the obvious one”. That being Morrissey.

Morrissey and Johnny Marr are still at odds.

There’s no love lost between Morrissey and former the Smiths bandmate Johnny Marr, as the ex-frontman has asked Johnny to stop talking about him in interviews.Despite the pair’s long history together, playing in one of the UK’s most iconic bands, touring the world and producing two albums that hit number one in the charts, in recent years things have soured, to say the least.Morrissey, now arguably better known for his controversial comments than his music, has issued an open letter to Johnny calling for him to stop mentioning his name in interviews as he ‘knows nothing’ about him.In a wide-ranging letter posted to his official website, the How Soon Is Now singer began by saying it was ‘not a rant or a hysterical bombast’, rather a ‘polite and calmly measured request’.‘Would you please stop mentioning my name in your interviews?’He asked guitarist Johnny to instead focus on his ‘own career, your own unstoppable solo achievements and your own music’, and to ‘leave me out of it’.The former chart-topper, 62, went on to say that Johnny simply doesn’t know him: ‘You know nothing of my life, my intentions, my thoughts, my feelings.‘Yet you talk as if you were my personal psychiatrist with consistent and uninterrupted access to my instincts.’Morrissey wrote that the pair have not been friends for 35 years now – ‘many lifetimes ago’.When he and Johnny first met, he says, they were both unknowns, and ‘helped each other become whatever it is we are today.’‘Can you not just leave it at that? Must you persistently… blame me for everything… from the 2007 Solomon Islands tsunami to the dribble on your grandma’s chin?’Morrissey went on to take a dig at Johnny as he said the guitarist ‘found me inspirational enough to make music with me

Morrissey has written an 'open letter' to former Smiths bandmate Johnny Marr asking that he stop talking about him interviews.

Johnny Marr has responded to Morrissey‘s recent statement, in which the former Smiths frontman asked Marr to stop mentioning him when giving interviews.In a post on his Morrissey Central website, the controversial singer-songwriter wrote: “This is not a rant or an hysterical bombast. It is a polite and calmly measured request: Would you [Marr] please stop mentioning my name in your interviews?”“Would you please, instead, discuss your own career, your own unstoppable solo achievements and your own music? If you can, would you please just leave me out of it?”Morrissey continued: “The fact is: you don’t know me.

Morrissey has issued a statement in which he’s asked his former Smiths bandmate Johnny Marr to stop mentioning him when giving interviews.In a post on his Morrissey Central website, the controversial singer-songwriter wrote: “This is not a rant or an hysterical bombast. It is a polite and calmly measured request: Would you please stop mentioning my name in your interviews?”“Would you please, instead, discuss your own career, your own unstoppable solo achievements and your own music? If you can, would you please just leave me out of it?”Morrissey continued: “The fact is: you don’t know me.

Johnny Marr has said that he’s still great pals with every single one of the many people he’s been in bands with over the years. Oh, “except for the obvious one”.“It’s a simplistic way of putting it, but one of the reasons I’ve been in so many bands was because I wanted to be loyal to them”, Marr tells Uncut. “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.

Paul McCartney’s guitar was sold at auction over the weekend, breaking the world record for the most expensive bass in the process.The Yamaha BB-1200 bass guitar, which McCartney used in the studio and on tour with Wings, sold for $496,100 (£374,905), beating the previous record of $384,000 (£290,190) set by The Rolling Stones‘ Bill Wyman’s 1969 Fender Mustang bass in 2020.The auction was organised by U2’s The Edge and producer Bob Ezrin for their Music Rising charity “to benefit musicians in the Gulf South,” following “the devastation the COVID-19 pandemic has wrought on musicians and musical communities”.The likes of U2, Elton John, Pearl Jam, Rush, Tom Morello, Joan Jett, Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, Kings Of Leon, Johnny Marr, Green

Johnny Marr has announced a ‘Fever Dreams Pt 2’ EP and shared two singles ‘Tenement Time’ and ‘Sensory Street’.Due for release on December 17, the EP will preview four brand new tracks that make up the second quarter of his forthcoming double album, ‘Fever Dreams Pts 1-4’.You can watch the official music video for ‘Tenement Time’ and the new lyric video for ‘Sensory Street’ below. Completing the EP are ‘Lightning People’ and ‘Hideaway Girl’.Speaking about the former, Marr said: “That’s the experience of growing up in the inner city as a little kid, running around being quite wild.

Johnny Marr has shared a performance of ‘How Soon Is Now’ from his forthcoming live-streamed event Live At The Crazy Face Factory. Watch it first on NME below.Announced last month alongside details of Marr’s new album ‘Fever Dreams Pts 1-4’, the global online show will be broadcast from November 10-14.

Johnny Marr has shared a trailer for his forthcoming livestream event, ‘Live At The Crazy Face Factory’.Announced last week alongside details of the former Smiths guitarist’s new album ‘Fever Dreams Pts 1-4’, the global streaming event will be broadcast from November 10-14.Discussing the livestream, Marr said: “The Crazy Face Factory is more than a workplace, it’s where I chase my ideas, dreams of music, imagination and plans. Industrial and industrious.

Johnny Marr releases his new EP ‘Fever Dreams Pt 1’, the guitar icon has spoken to NME about what to expect from the rest of his upcoming double album project and his hopes of reuniting with Modest Mouse.Today’s EP forms the first taster of ‘Fever Dreams Pts 1-4’ – which is due for release in February. Speaking to NME, The Smiths veteran turned solo star said that the album was made throughout lockdown around his work on the soundtrack to the new James Bond film No Time To Die with Hans Zimmer – with the time allowing him to reaffirm his role as a producer as well as songwriter and musician.“It felt like a big undertaking, and I think it sounds like a big undertaking,” he said of the upcoming record.

Johnny Marr has announced details of his new double album, ‘Fever Dreams Pts 1-4’.The record will follow on from his third solo album ‘Call The Comet’, which arrived in June 2018.‘Fever Dreams Pts 1-4’ will be released on February 25, 2022 via BMG and includes Marr’s recent single ‘Spirit, Power and Soul’. The first quarter of the album will be released as the ‘Fever Dreams Pt 1’ EP on Friday (October 15).“There’s a set of influences and a very broad sound that I’ve been developing – really since getting out of The Smiths until now, and I hear it in this record,” Marr said in a statement about his new album.“There are so many strands of music in it.

Rick Astley and Blossoms’ joke-that-got-out-of-control shows celebrating the music of The Smiths got good reviews this weekend, and from fans of The Smiths as well as fans of Astley and Blossoms. Though Morrissey has now given his official endorsement, which probably dooms any future iterations of the Astley/Blossoms sing The Smiths project.OK, it was a somewhat muted endorsement.

The soundtrack to the latest James Bond film No Time To Die makes Official UK Chart history as it becomes the highest charting Bond collection to date.

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Blondie have postponed their ‘Against All Odds’ UK tour until next spring – see the revised schedule below.Debbie Harry and co. were due to hit the road with Garbage next month for a run of headline dates in Liverpool, Manchester, Hull, London, Glasgow, Nottingham and other cities.Today (October 6) it has been confirmed that the gigs will now take place between April and May 2022.

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