He grew up in Manchester, England, where he began playing guitar at 14. Duffy got his start playing in different punk line-ups in the late 1970s, but these earlier years were more notable for his introducing legendary guitarist and composer of The Smiths, Johnny Marr, to the guitar, and encouraging the band's frontman and lyricist, Morrissey, to make his singing debut with Duffy in one of those punk bands, The Nosebleeds. (Courtesy of Wikipedia)