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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 10
Top works
- Indie, Seen
- Marr's Guitars
- ¿Cuándo es ahora?
- ¿Cuándo es ahora?
- Instrument
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Film & TV
Ardwick, Manchester, England, UK
Johnny Marr is an English musician, songwriter and singer. He first achieved fame as the guitarist and co-songwriter of The Smiths, who were active from 1982 to 1987. He has since performed with numerous other bands and embarked on a solo career.
Known for
- Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert — Self2025
- Rory Gallagher: Calling Card — Self2024
- The Rory Gallagher Story — Self2024
- When Blondie Came to Britain — Self2023
- The Sound of 007 — Self (archive footage)2022
- Johnny Marr - Rock en Seine 2019 — Self2020
- Hans Zimmer: Live in Prague — Self - Guitar2017
- Biggest Band Break Ups and Make Ups — Self2015
- The Joy of the Guitar Riff — Self2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self2014
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Manchester
- Active from
- 1963
Discography
- Life Is Sweet (Todd Margaret Theme)2010
- New Town Velocity2013
- The Messenger2013
- Upstarts2013
- Dynamo2014
- Easy Money2014
- Playland2014
- Adrenalin Baby - Johnny Marr Live2015
- Candidate2015
- I Feel You2015
Member of
- The Smiths1982–1987
- Pretenders1987–1987
- Electronic1988–2001
- The The1988–1994
- Johnny Marr + The Healerssince 2000
- Modest Mouse2006–2008
- The Cribs2008–2011
- 7 Worlds Collide
- The Magnificent Six
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 216,766
- Total plays
- 3,763,007
Tags
Born John Martin Maher on 31 October 1963 to Irish immigrants in Ardwick Manchester, UK, Johnny Marr is a guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer. He is best known for being the founder member, songwriter and guitarist in The Smiths. The band released numerous singles and four studio albums between 1983 and 1987 until the band dissolved. Since leaving The Smiths in 1987, Marr focused mainly on contributing to the work of established bands. He played session guitar and or wrote music for ar
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Martin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Manchester
- Occupation
- musician
- Employer
- University of Salford
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- Rock en Seine
- Genre
- alternative dance
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Rough Trade
- Official website
- johnny-marr.com
- Image
- Johnny Marr (The Cribs) at the 9-30 Club 1.jpg
Show 11 more facts
- date of birth
- 1963-10-31
- Commons category
- Johnny Marr
- member of
- The Cribs
- start of work period
- 1977-00-00
- pseudonym
- Johnny Marr
- copyright representative
- PRS for Music
- social media followers
- 300701
- name in native language
- John Martin Marr
- web feed URL
- johnnymarr.com/feed
- short name
- Johnny Marr
- birth name
- John Martin Maher
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