Johnny Marr’s 10 favourite songs: “The Smiths you can dance to”
From Sister Sledge to the Pet Shop Boys.
Author: Elle Palmer Archives: 11/2025
The most original album Rick Rubin has ever heard: “It doesn’t sound like anything else”
A raw and powerful debut record.
The song Joni Mitchell wrote to break up with David Crosby: “She packed up her guitar and left”
“Falling for her was a little like falling into a cement mixer.”
The one singer Freddie Mercury wished he could sing like and put “above all others”
She is “above all other singers”.
The Stevie Nicks songs inspired by the books she loved: “Someone sent them to me”
Infusing lyrics with literary influences.