Johnny Marr started his career with The Smiths, beginning an amazing history as one of the
most influential songwriters and guitarists in British independent music. His subsequent
creative journey has seen him at the heart of The The, Electronic, Modest Mouse and The
Cribs, as well as working with such names as The Pretenders, Talking Heads, The
Avalanches, and the musician and composer Hans Zimmer - with whom he recorded the
score and soundtrack for the most recent James Bond film, No Time To Die, including the
Oscar-nominated title track created with Billie Eilish.
Since launching in 2013, Marr’s solo career has given rise to four UK Top Ten studio albums
- The Messenger (2013), Playland (2014), Call The Comet (2018), Fever Dreams Pts 1-4
(2022) and a career-spanning book, Marr’s Guitars (via Thames & Hudson).
The full measure of this extraordinarily fertile creative period is captured on his latest
offering, Spirit Power: The Best Of Johnny Marr, a major new collection curated by Johnny
encompassing songs from his first ten years as a solo artist, a scattering of stand alone
singles and two incendiary new cuts, Somewhere and The Answer. It’s a body of work that
mirrors Marr’s unquenchable life force, breadth of musicality, and above all, his love of
melody.
