Johnny Marr on the first artists that “grabbed my attention”
His earliest memories of rock ‘n’ roll.
From The Vault Archives: 11/2023
‘Airbag’: The Radiohead song that failed to “sound like DJ Shadow”
One of their best-loved from the era.
The artist Jack White called “the great grandfather of all American and Western music”
He’s on a mission to revive his work.
The Van Morrison song Joan Baez was “addicted to”
“This is a song that my son knows by heart somewhere in his system.”
The Beatles song John Lennon “really hated”
“I always thought it was a lousy song. The lyrics were abysmal.”
The Beatles song that gave Bono a “messianic complex”
“In my head it felt like the universe was singing.”
Michael Stipe’s 10 favourite books of all time
“Without guilt, fear or weirdness, and have great end-of-times adventures”.