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	Johnny Marr
		Johnny Marr (born 1964), born as John Maher, is a British guitarist, best known as the man behind the music of The Smiths.
		Marr, in the Smiths, was known for a delicate, angelically sweet guitar style that could evoke musicality from just a few well-chosen notes.
		Morrissey's lyrics, often morose and self-pitying, were a perfectly matched with Marrs upbeat, lilting, and seemingly carefree music, to create, in the Smiths, an incarnation of musical irony; as if the spirits of Dr.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/Johnny_Marr.html (214 words)

	johnny Marr
		Johnny Marr sørgede for luftigt guitarspil og vidunderlige melodier med mere i The Smiths, og dermed var han med til at skrive rockhistorie.
		Johnny Marr har ikke blot brugt tiden på at pudse sine guldpladser efter opløsningen af The Smiths.
		Marr spillede mundharmonika på a-siden, som er blid, jazzet og poetisk popmusik.
	www.thesmiths.dk /html/johnny_marr.html (3869 words)

	Johnny Marr + The Healers - PopMatters Concert Review
		Marr warmed up as the set went on, though, peppering the between-song intervals with polite and appreciative comments, such as when he said of the venue, "This is a nice place.
		In the live setting, Marr's voice often sounded richer than it does on Boomslang, and it was endearing to hear one of the most influential musicians of recent years profess his "luv" of his red Rickenbacker 370, the only guitar he used during the performance.
		Marr is handling his first stint as frontman admirably, but the downside of his fronting the band is that he can't concentrate on his guitar work.
	www.popmatters.com /music/concerts/m/marrjohnny-030508.shtml (680 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Boomslang - Johnny Marr (Guitar)/Healers at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Johnny is back to his old studio brilliance, stacking multi-guitar layers of varying textures to create soundscapes that only he could put together.
		Alas, the closest Johnny comes to jingle-jangle on this album (my favorite of his many styles) is on the song "Down On The Corner." It sounds a little different in this context because the song is such a groove oriented track, but it is pure Johnny Marr heaven.
		Johnny's pretty crafty...on a 10th listen to a given track, you might hear a guitar part you never heard before that winds up being one of the highlights of that song for all future listenings.
	www.epinions.com /content_94823681668?linkin_id=8003929 (526 words)

	- JOHNNY MARR & THE HEALERS -
		What Johnny never did was the one thing everybody most wanted him to, which was to form a band of his own after The Smiths.
		In the meantime Johnny was doing live shows with Neil Finn, producing and playing on Haven's album and writing songs with Beth Orton and Liam Gallagher, which benefited the band indirectly.
		The 21st century Johnny Marr is a very different character to the 20th century boy.
	www.artistdirectrecords.com /imusic/mediatoolkit/johnnymarr/johnnymarr_bio_uk.html (825 words)

	Johnny Marr + the Healers: Boomslang - PopMatters Music Review
		While it's true that Marr has had about 15 years for the baggage of his Smiths days to disappear, that also means he's had 15 years for the group's stature and anticipation for a new project to build.
		The big surprise that most Marr fans will enjoy is that he is not only the Healers' guitarist but also their vocalist, and he does an admirable job, playing up his melodic strengths while staying within his limited range.
		Maybe that is the negative side effect of Marr waiting so long to make his proper solo debut: The sound he pioneered is now such old hat that it doesn't even sound that interesting coming from the source anymore.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/m/marrjohnny-boomslang.shtml (832 words)

	Boston's Weekly Dig: Music: Johnny Marr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Anyone who doesn’t know that Johnny Marr was the guitarist/music composer for seminal ‘80s band the Smiths should immediately discard this paper and move to a colony for the musically retarded with the rest of their kind.
		Marr later formed Electronic with Joy Division/New Order Mancunian Bernard Sumner, or that he produced such bands as the Charlatans and the hugely underrated band Marion, and has been seen hobnobbing about with Oasis, Doves and Badly Drawn Boy.
		There are no ego trips, and even though Marr comes up with most of the songs beforehand, the whole band is involved on the creative level, which gives the Healers a unique flavor.
	www.weeklydig.com /articles/johnny_marr (618 words)

	Johnny Marr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Johnny Marr (born John Martin Maher on 31 October 1963 in Ardwick, Manchester) is an English guitarist, keyboardist, harmonica player and singer, and is best known as the man behind the music of The Smiths.
		The band took two years to complete, because Marr wanted members to be chosen "by chemistry." The debut of the new band was released in 2003, where Marr sang and wrote the lyrics.
		Marr has praised Van Halen's ability, and is also a great fan of swedish neo-classical guitarist and composer Yngwie Malmsteen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johnny_Marr (1077 words)

	Johnny Marr - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Together with the Morrisey known as Morrissey, Marr began fighting crime in 1982, forming The Justice League by recruiting Mike Joyce with his invisibility suit and Dr Hibbert with a fluttering cape.
		Marr, in The Justice League, was known for a delicate, angelically sweet fighting style that could evoke brutality from just a few well-chosen punches.
		While he would probably blanch at the comparison, Marr's playing is in many regards similar to that of idiosyncratic progressive fist-fighters such as Bruce Lee, Humphrey Bogart, and Popeye.
	www.uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Johnny_Marr (368 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Boomslang: Music: Johnny Marr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Marr has a natural singing voice as other reviewers have commented upon and his lyrics while not inspiring or quotable aren't shamefully bad, the music itself is somewhat what is to blame it all sounds a bit samey escept for in some cases.
		Johnny Marr's post-Smiths output has always been varied, but when he finally steps out of the shadows of other frontmen for this solo album the result is a spectacular misfire.
		Johnny's voice is OK, but his thin voice sends you straight to the lyric sheet to understand what he's singing about, and then straight back again when you realise the mumbling lyrics done really mean anything - like the music they're vague and meandering.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Boomslang-Johnny-Marr/dp/B00007L6RW (1486 words)

	New York Press - LAURA BARCELLA -
		It wasn’t hard for Marr to be honest on this record, since for the first time in his career, he wrote the lyrics to every song himself.
		Marr took the advice of drummer Zak Starkey (Ringo’s son) and bassist Alonza Bevan (formerly of Kula Shaker).
		Today, Marr is "less concerned with other people’s opinions, whether in public or in private." Though he’s still based in Manchester, he spends most of his time in London.
	www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=7782 (1138 words)

	Johnny Marr - Biography - AOL Music
		The supple, ringing guitars of Johnny Marr helped establish the Smiths among the most acclaimed and enduring bands of the 1980s.
		Marr returned to music three years later on Electronic's third album, Twisted Tenderness, which wasn't released in the U.S. until fall 2000.
		Fans of this legendary guitarist were treated to Marr's proper singing debut in early 2003 with the release of Boomslang.
	music.aol.com /artist/johnny-marr/102050/biography (268 words)

	Johnny Marr
		Johnny Marr: Marr's attacks Johnny Marr is the only member of The Smiths to have moved on from their bitter, infighting past.
		A spokesperson for Ignition, Marr's management company told nme.com that Johnny was "very upset" at the theft of one his favourite guitars but that video footage of the thief leaving with the instrument had been passed to the police and that all music shops in the UK have been put on alert.
		Marr is expected to release the as yet untitled Healers debut this summer, while the Shawn Ryder and the Mondays have enjoyed a casual reunion, performing well received UK shows throughout last year.
	vu.morrissey-solo.com /moz/news/marr.htm (12828 words)

	Why Johnny Marr sings (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Marr’s original plan for the Healers was to get a singer, “preferably an unknown so I wouldn’t have to deal with the whole supergroup thing again,” laughs Marr, who sheepishly admits he didn’t realize having Zak Starkey (Ringo’s boy and the Who’s substitute timekeeper) sunk that notion.
		Marr’s lyrics worked their way onto the last couple of Electronic albums but this would be the first opportunity to voice his own concerns one-on-one with the audience.
		Johnny Marr and the Healers will be appearing at the Magic Stick (4120 Woodward, Detroit) with Mellowdrone on Monday, Jan. 27.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=4503 (786 words)

	News
		Johnny informs that "The new Healers are rocking and the next album and tour will be liked by a lot of the fans, the songs are good, but not all finished".
		Johnny Marr has been producing some tracks for Haven (six for their next album) and rehearsing for a couple of Bert Jansch gigs (Fri Oct 24th to be broadcast on T.V. on 21st Nov) and one at Queens Hall on Nov 8th.
		Johnny Marr + The Healers are to perform at the prestigious Coachella festival in Indio California.
	www.jmarr.com /news.html (4077 words)

	Johnny Marr + The Healers / Mellowdrone concert review, Double Door, Chicago, IL Jan. 28, 2003
		Last night guitar legend Johnny Marr took front and center stage with his new band The Healers.
		With a cool, somewhat detached vocal delivery Marr proved that he could not only tackle the transition to lead singer, but also do so while still retaining his status as a bona fide guitar god.
		And while this number offered a more sensitive insight to Marr, it was when the band hit high-gear on the hypnotic groove of "You Are The Magic" and the runaway train momentum of "The Last Ride" that showcased The Healers as the perfect vehicle for Johnny Marr's second coming.
	www.concertlivewire.com /marr.htm (453 words)

	Johnny Marr - New Order Online - A New Order and Joy Division Web Site
		Johnny Marr (born John Martin Maher, 31 October 1963 in Wythenshawe, Manchester) is a British guitarist, keyboardist, harmonica player and singer, best known as the man behind the music of The Smiths.
		Contrasted with the common punk and rock guitar flashiness and speed of the time, Marr's playing was out of place in the usual pop mainstream.
		After the demise of the Smiths (1987), Marr played guitars for The The and also teamed up with New Order singer/guitarist/keyboardist Bernard Sumner to form Electronic.
	www.neworderonline.com /Common/Topic.aspx?Topic=JohnnyMarr (292 words)

	Johnny Marr + The Healers - Boomslang CD review
		Former guitarist and musical composer for the highly influential band The Smiths, Johhny Marr, with six-string in hand, has stepped forward into the spotlight on his debut solo album along with his backing band The Healers entitled Boomslang.
		While Johnny's original vision of The Healers was to sound like a "collision in the Arizona desert between T. Rex, The Stooges, Eno, Beck and The Wailers," he somehow managed to pick up a couple of extra passenger's before the crash.
		It seems with an album as fresh, hip and intoxicating as this, Johnny Marr has finally latched onto his true second coming.
	www.concertlivewire.com /cdarchives/marrcd.htm (145 words)

	EMOL: Johnny Marr + the Healers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Band members Alonza Bevan, Johnny Marr and Zak Starkey will have their new CD, "BOOMSLANG," released in the US on February 4th- as well as the UK.
		Bangin' On Johnny Marr (lead vocals and guitar) formal band was The Smiths.
		Johnny covered Bob Dylan's "Don' think twice it's alright," for the June 02 issue of Uncut.
	realestatetucson.com /~emol/music/artists/johnnymarr.html (307 words)

	Already a legend, now he's become a Healer / Ex-Smiths' Johnny Marr to play Bimbo's
		Johnny Marr was a legend by the time he was 23.
		Marr credits his interest in eclectic music styles to a childhood spent with a pair of "complete record freaks" for parents.
		By the time Marr and Morrissey went their separate ways five years later, the Smiths had become the defining soundtrack for generations of habitual outsiders, closeted teenagers, budding poets and sundry sensitive souls.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/29/DD131016.DTL (919 words)

	Johnny Marr and the Healers: Boomslang ---Ink Blot Magazine
		Part 2 was a less novelistic affair, Marr assuming a Claptonesque sideman to the stars role, making some fine music with Bernard Sumner in Electronic and rediscovering his Mancunian side as an Oasis hanger-on.
		If Johnny Marr of The Smiths was an ambisexual, vegetarian Keith Richards, then Johnny Marr of the Healers is Keef settled down with wife and kids, still a master of controlled virtuousity but partial to a bit of meat and potatoes when the dinner bell rings.
		Marr the singer wears the mandatory Manc whine relatively well, which is something of a relief after reports of his voice's frailties on the live stage.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Johnny_Marr_Boomslang.htm (502 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Johnny Marr: "The Smiths" and the Art of Gun-Slinging: Books: Richard Carman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		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.
		This is the first full-length biography of Johnny Marr, looking beyond world of The Smiths and into the solo career of Britain’s most influential guitar player of the last two decades.
		Which is nonsense; by all accounts Marr has no shortage of those Morrisque attributes (could you write that music and not have?) and, well, after the court case I doubt there's many of the great unquiffed who associate the singer with sensitivity or compassion.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Johnny-Marr-Smiths-Art-Gun-Slinging/dp/0954970489 (1627 words)

	Eye Weekly - Q&A : Johnny Marr - 01.23.03
		IN A RECENT INTERVIEW, JOHNNY MARR described the excitement of hearing T. Rex's "Metal Guru" as a kid and being moved to ride hell-bent across Manchester on his bike.
		Similarly, Marr has scarcely glanced over his shoulder in the 15 years since he left The Smiths.
		Still only 39, Marr has finally done what many expected he'd do back in '88: he's minted his own band in the form of Johnny Marr and The Healers, who drop their debut album, Boomslang, Feb. 4.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_01.23.03/music/marr.html (613 words)

	Johnny Marr & The Healers
		Johnny Marr is a guitar hero but not in the style of Zakk Wylde, Randy Rhoads or even Ted Nugent.
		Marr, founding member of The Smiths and once named one of the Top 10 guitarists of all time, has also played for such artists as The The, Electronic, Beth Orton, Oasis, The Pretenders and Neil Finn.
		The success of "Boomslang" comes from as much from Marr's fascinating fretwork as it does with impressive songwriting.
	www.roughedge.com /cdreviews/j/johnnymarr.htm (215 words)

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