A closer look at Johnny Marr on Vinyl Revival – Part Three
Johnny Marr continued his conversation with Pete Paphides on Vinyl Revival, talking about Northern Soul Records, Joy Division covering ‘Keep On Keeping On’, musical innovation, Record Store Day and a ten minute version of “The Queen Is Dead’.
Part Three – Nolan Porter ‘Keep On Keeping On’
The Smiths ‘Sweet and Tender Hooligan’
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N.F. PORTER – ‘Keep On Keeping On’ 1971
written by Richard Flowers
The interesting thing about that record, is that, we were talking about nods and things being lifted and inspired and all of that, but Joy Division’s, I might be wrong about this but I think it’s ‘Interzone’, was originally built on that same riff. What’s interesting about it to me, is like, when Bernard Sumner and myself got together to form Electronic, there was bit of scratching of heads going on around the music press particularly and some fans, like what’s a guy from The Smiths doing with a guy from New Order, but this is the sort of thing that we had in common, you know. Bernard was actually, he’s the only guy I knew who would ever play, tried to play the riff from ‘Keep On Keeping On’, and we had those thing in common, you know.”
THE SMITHS – The Queen Is Dead
Record Store Day, 16 April 2011
The truth of the matter is, people might be interested in that ten minute version, but there’s a reason why we cut it down to a mere eight minutes or whatever it is. The finished article is probably the best out there.
THE CRIBS – ‘So Hot Now’
Record Store Day, 17 April 2010
MODEST MOUSE – ‘Satellite Skin’/'Guilty Cocker Spaniels’
Record Store Day, 18 April 2009
THE SMITHS – ‘Sweet And Tender Hooligan’ 1986
written by Morrissey and Johnny Marr
I’ve always like that song. I really like the singing on it, particularly. And I love the band’s performance. And people who really like the band, who kinda like roll their eyes on my behalf when they hear jingle jangle miserabilism, you know fey, whatever it is that, you know, whatever box the band were often put in, ‘Sweet and Tender Hooligan’, amongst other songs come to mind, but this is just one of the songs that we used to do, and it shows that we were a pretty storming rock ‘n’ roll band really, if I can use that term.
JOHNNY MARR AND THE HEALERS ‘Sweet And Tender Hooligan’
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The newly reformed Johnny Marr and The Healers played ‘Sweet And Tender Hooligan’ at the four shows they played in Fall 2011. This track is from their show at The Deaf Institute on 4 October 2011.
