that version of Teenage Kicks. Did anyone record it?

Wow Wow Wow Wow Wow and WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ps. WOW!!!!!!!

I would kill for their version of 'ferry"

...have always adored that one

anyone?

anyone?

who knew old marr still had the fire in him?

all kidding aside, a fitting tribute. i would have loved to have been there for that unplanned moment. i'm sure johnny realizes how big a part john peel had in making the smiths what they ultimately became.

Johnny Marr is a fucking class act, that's why.

I doubt anyone has this recorded, as it seems very spur-of-the-moment.

But that's marvelous news. Johnny has a wonderful sense of timing and what is-or-isn't appropriate. Love the man.

Rest in peace, John Peel. You will be sorely missed by the music world.

Franz Ferdinand also played 'Teenage Kicks' last night at the Manchester Apollo. Fine tribute.

I was there...Johnny strolled on during the first encore, played harmonica during Four Seasons In One Day, then picked up his guitar and struck the give-away first chords of There Is A Light. It was truly amazing. Then came Teenage Kicks, which, in the absence of anyone else knowing the words, he gave it a go.
It was very, very cool

Any band who played a gig in the UK last night did a version of Teenage Kicks!

I agree to a great extent with a post by another user above - Johnny Marr is the great squandered talent of the last 15 years. Here is a man whose music with The Smiths was pretty much faultless - sublime, beautiful, evocative in a way that no other guitarist could be. No one comes close to Johnny in producing that melancholic yet vibrant and beautiful sound. Nor do I believe, as someone proposed, that Morrissey "directed" or "guided" Johnny musically - remember, the music was presented TO Morrissey pretty much finished. Johnny was creating and exploring the kind of music he wanted to create at that point, and the results were superb. Morrissey's contributions of course were sublime, vocally and lyrically and in terms of image, but it is Johnny's music.

But Johnny is almost a tragic figure - the flashes of genius we see when he plays brilliantly at concerts, and yes, on occasion on other people's records ('Getting Away With It', 'The Beat(en) Generation') only underline how much has been squandered. Johnny is revered, not least by ME. But he could still be revered by those who never saw The Smiths and maybe weren't even born then if he was still fulfilling his potential. I believe he and Morrissey could make a wonderful record together, I truly do. I don't think Johnny's or Morrissey's talents have vanished - Johnny's performances with N.Finn in concert evidence this. But I know that it won't happen - and there is a tragedy. Morrissey soldiers on with his rather workaday band (yes, Vauxhall is excellent, yes Arsenal is great, yes there's a few superb tracks from the 1995-2004 period BUT these days - as opposed to the 1992-4 period - the band seem solid rather than inspired), writing some great lyrics and singing better with every year, but without the truly great music to back it up; Johnny flashes his genius to us every now and again but has pretty much faded from public view. I mean, what did happen to Boz and Alain? With 'Your Arsenal' and 'Vauxhall and I' they came up trumps, two great albums on the trot, and one was left anticipating a further creative renaissance for Morrissey as the band settled in and got better. And then it just all but evaporated, bar a few great tracks. And I don't think Quarry is musically great, though Moz's singing is fab, so this situation to me is not yet overcome. Strange how things turn out.

You are such a twat. Such a BIG FAT TWAT.

"It was Morrissey, Marr, Rourke and that session drummer guy Joyce."

You have no idea what an enormous ASSHOLE you are.

I feel sorry for everyone who knows you. I really do.

Why the animosity towards joyce? Don't let morrissey's opinions influence yours. Do you have any valid reason to dislike joyce? It's funny how first it was rourke and joyce who were popularly considered session musicians, but not anymore. Is it not funny how the "general atmosphere" (as coined by Doris Lessing) on this site has progressively shifted from a "mock and hate joyce & rourke" sentiment to the now singular "mock and hate joyce" mentality. Why? Just because morrissey chooses to single him out?

I'm not a person of great pride, but I always felt a bit of it being a morrissey/smiths fan, and not in that arrogant, "holier than thou," "eeewww, you listen to mainstream music!" type of way. I am often impressed by the many constructive posts that are put on this forum, not to mention the people who post them. But I am equally puzzled by the irony of a web forum dedicated to a man who has promoted individualism and self-thought, yet is full of people who look to him to form their opinions.
Quite sad. Although I love morrissey's music, I can't say that I agree with everything he believes, and to attempt to is quite boring, I think.

Although this may seem like the customary morrissey-solo personal attack, I assure you it is not. More like an inquiry. So I ask again: why is it that you hold joyce in such low regard?

Oh, and before I forget, what is so special about siouxie sioux that it kills you to see joyce's name mentioned next to hers? I listened to several of her songs and have seen her live a few times. Disappointed, really. Nothing special. I've seen better opening acts, to say the least. But to each their own!

something we've all been guilty of at one time or another:

Group Minds by Doris Lessing:

People living in the West, in societies that we describe as Western, or as the free world, may be educated in many different ways, but they will all emerge with an idea about themselves that goes something like this: I am a citizen of a free society, and that means I am an individual, making individual choices. My mind is my own, my opinions are chosen by me, I am free to do as I will, and at the worst the pressures on mea are economic, that is, I may be too poor to do as I want.

This set of ideas may sound something like a caricature, but it is not so far off how we see ourselves. It is a portrait that may not have been acquired consciously, but is part of a general atmosphere or set of assumptions that influence our ideas about ourselves.
People in the West therefore may go through their entire lives never thinking to analyze this very flattering picture, and as a result are helpless against all kinds of pressures on them to conform in many kinds of ways.
The fact is that we all live our lives in groups—the family, work groups, social, religious and political groups. Very few people indeed are happy as solitaries, and they tend to be seen by their neighbors as peculiar or selfish or worse. Most people cannot stand being alone for long. They are always seeking groups to belong to, and if one group dissolves, they look for another. We are group animals still, and there is nothing wrong with that. But what is dangerous is not the belonging to a group, or groups, but not understanding the social laws that govern groups and govern us.

When we’re in a group, we tend to think as that group does: we may even have joined the group to find ‘like-minded’ people. But we also find our thinking changing because we belong to a group. It is the hardest thing in the world to maintain an individual dissident opinion, as a member of a group.

It seems to me that this is something we have all experienced—something we take for granted, may never have thought about it. But a great deal of experiment has gone on among psychologists and sociologists on this very theme. If I describe and experiment or two, then anyone listening who may be a sociologist or psychologist will groan, oh God not again—for they will have heard of these cla

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Listen Mate.. I'm sure that you are in the minority when you have a go at Mike Joyce.
I would have done the same thing that he did if one of my mates had 'short changed' me like Morrissey did.
Morrissey may be great..but he makes mistakes like the rest of us...and by trying to convince us that Mike Joyce is a bad man, it is one of his biggest.
Mike Joyce played his part in The Smiths don't you worry.

You obviously never saw The Smiths I did. They
were a band. A band is more than the some of its parts even if The singers sometimes forget that.
You weren't there. What is wrong with you ?
You turned what should have been a posting about
John Peel one of the greatest DJ's of all time along with Rodney Bingenheimer and Alan Freed into
a negative diatribe. May you run into 12 Skinheads with Stanley knives in the nearest dark alley.

He's a good singer and he is an even better songwriter, MOZ IS GOD? Mmmmmmmmmm, The creator of all beings? Not quite! Says it all really.
:-)