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Johnny Marr steps in to help after FedEx loses session player’s vintage guitar
By Phil Weller Published
The Smiths legend helped save the day when FedEx delivered the guitar to the wrong location

Inside Johnny Marr's blockbuster guitar contributions to Inception
By Jackson Maxwell Published
Inception composer Hans Zimmer said that the moment he landed on a guitar part for one of the movie's pivotal instrumental themes, “I knew who I was writing for”

Celebrity guitar auctions: teenage dreams or billionaire boys’ club? How A-list gear sales became the hottest ticket in town
By Henry Yates Published
Fret Buzz From Johnny Marr to Mark Knopfler, big-name guitars seem to have become so valuable that even their owners don’t want to play them anymore…

Johnny Marr to sell nearly 100 pieces of gear at auction – including some prized Smiths-era guitars
By Phil Weller Published
Guitars that have featured on some of the Smiths’ biggest songs, and moonlighted in Oasis, are up for grabs

Her guitar playing had already reached the ears of millions, but advice from Johnny Marr re-shaped her approach
By Jim Beaugez Published
Already an established instrumental composer, Rebecca Mardal took up acoustic guitar at the Smiths man’s suggestion, and she changed her playing style after he gave her a slimmer neck than she’d used before

The making of the Smiths’ 1986 classic The Queen Is Dead
By Henry Yates Published
It was a square peg amid the shred scene and almost sank Johnny Marr, but the Smiths’ majestic third album ended up as the jewel in their crown

“Far, far from limited to our man in terms of its potential use”: Fender Johnny Marr Signature Special Jaguar review
By Dave Burrluck Published
It’s been 13 years since we saw the first Johnny Marr Jaguar, and with little fanfare his second signature landed at the end of 2025. What’s changed?

The Cribs on swapping guitars, tracking a stolen guitar and why it’s not their fault that you can’t get their signature Squiers
By Matt Parker Published
Ryan and Gary Jarman remember Steve Albini as much nicer than you’d think, share the crazy story of a missing Mustang, and tell us how a Tube Screamer can make a guitar sound like a synth
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