Johnny Marr wins lifetime achievement award - GQ magazine

Johnny Marr - Lifetime Achievement.

"As one of the founding members of The Smiths, Johnny Marr was responsible for reinventing guitar music for a new generation. And since then, it’s perhaps easier to list the artists he hasn’t collaborated with rather than the ones he has – no joke, there’s an entire Wikipedia page devoted to it, from Bryan Ferry to Paul McCartney, Talking Heads to The Pet Shop Boys."

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/gallery/gq-awards-2018-winners

Johnny Marr vows to never retire as he picks up GQ Award.

"The former Smiths guitarist said it would be a waste of his famous haircut if he were to call it a day in the music industry."

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/johnny-marr-vows-never-retire-15117215.amp?



Regards,
FWD.

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UPDATE Sep. 7:

Video of acceptance speech posted by Zoinks:



He did thank the other Smiths. To be fair, I think if he mentioned Morrissey by name in this crowd, it might have gotten some boos.

Boy, does Kylie seem to really like him!

 

[Amy]

When has Johnny stuck the boot into Morrissey? As someone else said he probably didn't mention Morrissey by name as there may have been boos.

Well, during Electronic he was quite disparaging about Morrissey ('he needs to get a life'/Dorrissey, Alf Wank/I know what his records will sound like before I hear them"). And around the time of Modest Mouse, he gave a lot of interviews with silly side-swipes like "never trust someone whose fringe faces north instead of south", he suggested that Ian Curtis would have been the ideal singer for Hand in Glove, and so on. Morrissey discusses this in Autobiog as well.

It has become a lot less 'direct' over the years, but I think Johnny still knows how to wound when he wants to. "Bob from Chorley is the best lyricist I've ever worked with, I can't understand why people even care about The Smiths", that kind of thing.

 

[g23]

I always thought Marr should join New Order, but not become Electronic and still somehow keep the New Order 'sound'. Like Marr worked with The The without changing it into a whole different animal. I've always wondered how The Cure's 'pictures of you' would have sounded with Marr on guitar. Then again it's already a perfect song.

Pictures of you is one of the examples I was thinking of where the simple layers add up to something fairly big sounding. I'd like to hear him take on From The Edge of the Deep Green Sea or High.

 

[g23]

Agree. I prefer Moz, uncut and unbuttoned. With his gray hair and grace and laughing eyes and fashion crimes, he's delightfully alive.

Really? One of the things that made me first start questioning going to his live shows (around Swords) was that he seemed clouded and half there, vs performances that I'd experienced prior to then. When I see him now, it's like he comes through in bits and bursts, before retiring back into himself. It's all in the eyes.

 

[g23]

Listen to the dude hes trying to do good to you FFS.
A synthetic wig with brown dog like ear flaps would be the model for you so as not to scare the Great Dane into thinking theres a dead cat on top of your head. Dont go full blown DramaJ so as not scare the pooch

I wish David would install a "Twat" button alongside the like, dislike, informative, etc. It would save a lot of time with you.

 

[g23]

I think if he had mentioned Morrissey by name he would have shown a little class and integrity. I don't think anyone with a mind of their own would boo morrissey.
He was with Morrissey in opposition to Rourke s court case and let him do all the work and get the bad press. So when it suits him....

Let him? More like the fool didn't grasp that running your mouth in court is a bad idea, and life isn't a TV show where the gathered rabble stand up and applaud, but rather, a place where screeching indignantly at a judge will just make him bend you over in front of everybody and ride you like a pony for his own judicial amusement. Because they can.

 

[Stanley the 2nd]

Johnny M wins an award and everyone bitches about his hair......????!!

Quick question - who would you rather Morrissey writes his next album with? Johnny Marr or Jesse Tobias?

Next album of original material, not the half baked covers album which will be inflicted on the world shortly.

 

[URBANUS]

Tut tut Urbs, having a go at Kylie, it's a bit...below you.
Did she break your heart or summat?

I bet her portrait does nothing but and at her. And if it doesn't, it should.

She's an escort whore and have always been. I hate the way she looks cause she looks awful in every way. There is this idea that every man is supposed to like her but only gay men do and maybe you are one of them?

 

[Surface]

I wish David would install a "Twat" button alongside the like, dislike, informative, etc. It would save a lot of time with you.

Apparently people who body shame are people who loath themselves but I suppose we already knew that about the site troll

 

[Anonymous]

I wish David would install a "Twat" button alongside the like, dislike, informative, etc. It would save a lot of time with you.

I've requested this a few times to deal with WeirdUncleSkinny...no luck yet.

 

[vegan cro spirit 99]

YES congratulations to whoever suggest to have DramaJ join New Order or the Cure !!!!
Thats one of the GREAT IDEAS!! Instead of 3 sucky albums by merging DramaJ sucky cds with the Cure and/or New Order we go down to 2 sucky cds!!! The Cure and NO fans wont even notice and extra dose of sucko in their cds, so used they are to it.

Lets Promote the idea

 

[vegan cro spirit 99]

I wish David would install a "Twat" button alongside the like, dislike, informative, etc. It would save a lot of time with you.

WTF??
It was the other dude who suggested Synthetic hair follicles to you.

 

[Anonymous]

Johnny M wins an award and everyone bitches about his hair......????!!
r Morrissey writes his next album with? Johnny Marr or Jesse Tobias?

Next album of original material, not the half baked covers album which will be inflicted on the world shortly.

Quick question - who would you prefer Johnny marr write his next album with? Morrissey or erm.....

 

[Anonymous]

Let him? More like the fool didn't grasp that running your mouth in court is a bad idea, and life isn't a TV show where the gathered rabble stand up and applaud, but rather, a place where screeching indignantly at a judge will just make him bend you over in front of everybody and ride you like a pony for his own judicial amusement. Because they can.

Yes "let him" And yes judges do what they like to people whether they are subservient or not and irrespective of who's right or wrong.
Your physical description is what judges and their ilk do to the vulnerable in their spare time. Unfortunately they get away with it in and out of the courtroom.

 

[g23]

She's an escort whore and have always been. I hate the way she looks cause she looks awful in every way. There is this idea that every man is supposed to like her but only gay men do and maybe you are one of them?

That, and I hear her knickers smell like Nick Cave

 

[URBANUS]

That, and I hear her knickers smell like Nick Cave

I bet she has a penis just like Lady Gaga. Lately I've been watching online porn of shemales and it is fascinating watching what looks like little girls jerking off with the biggest dicks I have ever seen.
If that's not entertainment for the masses nothing is.

 

[g23]

Yes "let him" And yes judges do what they like to people whether they are subservient or not and irrespective of who's right or wrong.
Your physical description is what judges and their ilk do to the vulnerable in their spare time. Unfortunately they get away with it in and out of the courtroom.

He did it of his own free will. No one forced him to act like a mouthy arrogant dickhead in court. I mean, that's 101 stuff. Be calm, cool, respectful, and collected in court.

 

[g23]

WTF??
It was the other dude who suggested Synthetic hair follicles to you.

You're as useful as a floppy dildo and half as clever.

 

[Anonymous]

Quick question - who would you prefer Johnny marr write his next album with? Morrissey or erm.....

I'd pick Neil Finn. Although Johnny's doing fantastic by himself! Call the Comet is an amazing album.

 

[Anonymous]

Well, during Electronic he was quite disparaging about Morrissey ('he needs to get a life'/Dorrissey, Alf Wank/I know what his records will sound like before I hear them"). And around the time of Modest Mouse, he gave a lot of interviews with silly side-swipes like "never trust someone whose fringe faces north instead of south", he suggested that Ian Curtis would have been the ideal singer for Hand in Glove, and so on. Morrissey discusses this in Autobiog as well.

It has become a lot less 'direct' over the years, but I think Johnny still knows how to wound when he wants to. "Bob from Chorley is the best lyricist I've ever worked with, I can't understand why people even care about The Smiths", that kind of thing.

Those are pretty mild considering the years of emotional trauma and general diva crap that Morrissey subjected Johnny to in the Smiths.

 

[Anonymous]

Great discussions. Real quality stuff. (It must be very hard for you guys, to realise you'll never be as close to Moz as Johnny was.)