Posts from the ‘Awards’ Category
Johnny was crowned Godlike Genius at the 2013 NME awards held at The Troxy in London. Johnny and his band then performed a five song set. He started with Upstarts and Sun and Moon from his new album The Messenger, then he was joined onstage by Justin Young of The Vaccines for a storming version [...]
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Johnny is to be given the Godlike Genius Award at the NME 2013 awards ceremony, which will take place on Wednesday February 27 at The Troxy in East London. Johnny who releases his debut solo album ‘The Messenger’ on February 25, said: “It is a very nice thing to be getting this award and I [...]
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Johnny’s Fender Jaguar Guitar has won The Guitar Of The Year Award at the The UK Music Industries Association (MIA) Awards.
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Johnny’s Fender Jaguar guitar has been nominated for Guitar Of The Year at the UK Music Industry Awards. The awards celebrate “the best selling and most reliable and innovative products and retail initiatives in the UK”.
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Johnny 26 in SPIN’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time
The SPIN staff decided to rank their favourite guitar players of all time. Johnny has been voted 26.
The Smiths Complete won the 2012 Music Week Awards best catalogue marketing campaign award, among the other releases in contention were Pink Floyd and Nirvana.
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“We’ve had a lot of requests from people wanting to know about Johnny’s acceptance speech at the NME Awards so here it is :” “Thanks to the NME for this award. I’m really really happy that people still like these songs because we really liked making them. Thanks to Warners for doing a great job [...]
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Johnny Marr accepted the award for Best Reissue on behalf of The Smiths, telling the crowd that he was “really happy people still liked listening to the songs as he really enjoyed making them”. He also dedicated the awards to his former bandmates Morrissey, Mike Joyce and Andy Rourke.
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The video of Johnny and Hans Zimmer performing a special concert backed by a 20-piece orchestra at the Los Angeles premiere of Inception, at El Capitan Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard can be seen on our video page.
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Johnny Marr’s collaboration with composer Hans Zimmer on the soundtrack to the film Inception by Christopher Nolan, has been nominated for BAFTA. The Inception soundtrack has been nominated in the Original Score category. Competing film scores include AR Rahman (127 Hours), Danny Elfman (Alice In Wonderland), John Powell (How To Train Your Dragon) and Alenandre Desplat [...]
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