Johnny Marr The Smiths & The Art Of Gun-slinging

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Publisher's Synopsis The Smiths were the best British band since The Beatles. Their shimmering muscular guitar-driven pop remains the barometer for everyone who looks back at the 1980s with affection. In a decade that arguably produced more poor pop music than any other since the 1950s The Smiths shone like a beacon and inspired a generation of indie guitar bands and their influence continues undiminished to this day. Musically The Smiths were a league ahead and guitarist Johnny Marr was the driving force behind their revolutionary sound. Manchester-born Marr proved to be a craftsman and explorer without equal a guitarist who rode the longest highways to find the most perfect sounds and who built the gilt-edged frames in which the word-pictures of co-writer Morrissey sat so perfectly. After The Smiths Marr continued to inject beautiful sophisticated guitar into some of the best music of the period: The Pretenders Kirsty McColl Billy Bragg The The and Talking Heads all benefited from his incendiary input. More recently with his band Johnny Marr & The Healers and the critically acclaimed album Boomslang Johnny remains as influential and important as ever. A true guitar hero.