JOHNNY
MARR (and Johnny Marr + the healers)
1982: Formed The Smiths (age 18)
6/82: First Smiths single, “Hand In Glove,”
released
2/84: Self-titled debut album released
11/84: Hatful of Hollow album released
2/85: Meat Is Murder album released
6/86: Queen is Dead album released
3/87: The World Won’t Listen album released
4/87: Louder Than Bombs album released
8/87: The Smiths disband
9/87: Smiths final album, Strangeways Here We
Come, released
11/87: Plays and co-writes with Bryan Ferry on Better
Noire
3/88: Plays on Talking Heads album Naked
10/88: Joins longtime friend Matt Johnson in The The
4/89: Plays and writes on Kirsty MacColl’s Kite
CD; goes on The The World Tour
5/89: Mindbomb by The The released
10/89: Plays on Pet Shop Boys Behaviour album
11/89: Forms Electronic with Bernard Sumner of New
Order
12/89: Electronic release “Getting Away
With It,” a Top 40 single in the US
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8/90: Electronic
make their live debut in Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium with Depeche Mode
6/91: Critically acclaimed album, the
self-titled Electronic, released
6/91: Writes
“Walking Down Madison” for Kirsty MacColl (#4 on Billboard’s Modern Rock
Tracks)
12/91: Rejoins The The for new album
1/93: Dusk by The The released
7/96: Electronic release second album, Raise
The Pressure
11/97: Meets
drummer Zak Starkey in NY; arrange to jam together when both return to London
4/98: Produces The Program by
Marion
4/99: Performs
at Linda McCartney Tribute Concert at Royal Albert Hall in London
with Marianne Faithfull, George Michael and The Pretenders
9/99: Begins
writing songs for new band; gets together with Alonza Bevan
4/99: Electronic
releases Twisted Tenderness
11/99: Plays
on Beck’s Midnight Vultures album
4/00: Starts
writing and recording with new band, Johnny Marr + the healers, lineup includes
Starkey and Bevan
7/00: Healers
tour Europe with Oasis
10/00: Records
ten songs with Oasis’ Liam Gallagher
4/01: Featured
in UK Channel 4 “Top Ten Guitar Heros of All Time,” alonsgside Jimmy Page, Eric
Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix
4/01: Plays with Neil Finn in Auckland NZ; records
live album which includes healers song, “Down On The Corner”
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4-8/01: Tours
with Neil Finn
8/01: healers
release The Last Ride ep on Marr’s label, Pacific
10/01 Plays
on Oasis’ Heathen Chemistry
1/02: Marr
co-writes first Beth Orton single, “Daybreaker” for her album Concrete Sky
2/02: Produces
Haven’s debut, Between The Senses
2/02: Live
album, Seven Worlds Collide, by Neil Finn and Friends is released
3/02: Reunites
with former Smiths manager, Joe Moss
7/02: Tours
West Coast with Neil Finn
7/02: Signs with iMUSIC
10/02: Boomslang, Johnny Marr + the
healers debut CD, is completed
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