Johnny Marr scores Todd Margaret
Johnny Marr scored the music for a new six-episode comedy show The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret which premiered on IFC on Friday, 1 October 2010. David Cross is the co-writer and stars in the series about a corporate nobody and pathological liar who unexpectedly finds himself running his company’s London office.
‘Life Is Sweet’
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There are a couple of occasions where RDF or Channel 4 would say ‘Hey, this might be a good opportunity to get one of your famous friends to come do something!’ I have a lot of friends who are musicians and I was putting together a small list. Another thing that RDF said was ‘We think that the music should be British” and so I thought of British people that I know and I made a little list and then I remembered ‘Oh shit! I know Johnny Marr!’
He’s the most unassuming, sweetest guy. He’s really cool. The music guy at RDF sent his manager an email, Johnny and I connected and the turnaround was astoundingly quick. I was barely off the phone with him before the song came over the email. He scored the whole show! That’s all him! In between all the other shit he already does, he did it in a matter of weeks. It was really impressive.
David Cross
