Johnny Marr has spoken about the famous riff in The Smiths' 'How Soon Is Now', saying that his bandmates were at the pub when he came up with it, adding that if he was with them it might never have been written.
Johnny Marr has said that his future live shows are in jeopardy after he broke his band earlier this month.
The guitarist and singer fell while he was out running in London last week, and now has his hand in plaster (see picture above).
In a statement, Marr said: "I was running pretty fast and just went straight over. I banged my shoulder and then realised my hand was in a bad way. Obviously we’re hoping there’s no long term damage."
Johnny Marr has said that people who are obsessed with The Smiths reforming "need to go and find a hobby".
The guitarist, who released his first solo album The Messenger in February of this year, has repeatedly been asked to comment on reports that the band he formed with Morrissey will ever get back together. At the NME Awards in 2012, he joked that the band would reform when the current Government steps down, but he has since insisted that fans of the group need to accept that there won't be some "big happy ending" for the group.
“When it came out people were like, ‘Where in the world did this come from? What kind of music is this?’” Robbie Robertson tells Uncut in an exclusive interview for this month’s cover story celebrating the 45th anniversary of The Band’s landmark debut album, Music From Big Pink.
Johnny Marr has spoken out about Margaret Thatcher.
"My thoughts are that if you see the word 'Thatcherism,' it’s not a word that stands for something good," he told Rolling Stone. "I don’t think there’s any getting around that."
