Authors: Richard Carman
Parlophone April 1999
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
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.
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
Bete Noire
Virgin November 1987
Johnny appears on ‘Limbo’, ‘The Right Stuff’, ‘Kiss And Tell’ and ‘Seven Deadly Sins’
(Nothing But) Flowers / Ruby Dear
EMI April 1988
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.’
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
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
Windows Of The World / 1969
Polydor April 1989
2 From Quando: Atom Rock / Triangle
Factory June 1984
Native Land / River Bed Dry
Blanco Y Negro September 1984
(Johnny appears on the A-side)
Universal
Parlophone December 1993
Johnny appears on ‘Las Cassa’
Shack Up / Life’s A Scream
Creation May 1994
Fat Neck / Yeah Yeah Brother / Pretty Vacant
Radioactive May 1996
Fresco
Deconstruction October 1997
The Program
London September 1998
Kiss Me I’m Cold / That’s My Business
Fontana July 1990
Still Feel The Rain / Still Feel The Rain
Some Bizarre January 1991
This Is Your Life / It’s Written All Over My Face
London February 1991
Ripe
London March 1991
Johnny appears on ‘This Is Your Life’
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
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.
Crimson Moon
Castle/When June 2000
Johnny appears on ‘Fool’s Mate’, ‘My Donald, ‘Looking For Love’,
‘The River Bank.’
Daybreaker
Heavenly July 02
Johnny co-wrote ‘Concrete Sky’, also released as an EP in July 02 with various other tracks.
Midnight Vultures
Geffen November 1999
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.”
(as producer)
Between The Senses
Radiate February 2002
All For A Reason
Radiate March 2004
Heathen Chemistry
July 2002
Johnny appeared on ‘(Probably) All In The Mind’ and ‘Born On A Different Cloud.’
Rays Of The Rising Sun / (versions)
Magnet, June 1995
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.’
We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Album unreleased at time of going to press. Johnny involved in songwriting and playing.
The Last Ride / Need It / Long Gone
Pacific October 2001
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
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’
Lullaby For Liquid Pig
Album – Reincarnate May 2003
In The Maybe World
Young God July 2006
Time on Earth
ATO June 2007
Johnny appears on ‘Don’t Stop Now’ and ‘Even a Child’, co-writing the latter.
Don’t Stop Now / Stare Me Out (various alternative releases and b-sides)
Capitol June 2007
Johnny appears on the A-side
Out of Control
Fascination November 2008
Johnny appears on ‘Rolling Back the Rivers In Time,’ playing guitar and harmonica.
The Empyrean
Record Collection January 2009
Johnny plays on the tracks ‘Enough of Me’ and ‘Central.’
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’
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
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
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
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
Chasing Yesterday
Sour Mash February 2015
Johnny appears on ‘Ballad of the Mighty I’
Ballad of the Mighty I
Sour Mash January 2015
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
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.