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frank bough
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Saw Johnny Marr at Royal Festival Hall last night as part of Meltdown.
He played with Bert Jansch then The Healers came on. He introduced the second number as "a Manchester folk song" then proceeded to play Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want.
It was simply astounding - his playing was beautiful, exactly like The Smiths record, and even his singing seemed to mimic Morrissey's. As a solo performance of a Smiths song, it goes to highlight just how inadequate Boz and the gang are when Morrissey tries it. Marr was in a different league entirely.
Just delighted I was there and got to see it. Hope there are mp3s out there?
He played with Bert Jansch then The Healers came on. He introduced the second number as "a Manchester folk song" then proceeded to play Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want.
It was simply astounding - his playing was beautiful, exactly like The Smiths record, and even his singing seemed to mimic Morrissey's. As a solo performance of a Smiths song, it goes to highlight just how inadequate Boz and the gang are when Morrissey tries it. Marr was in a different league entirely.
Just delighted I was there and got to see it. Hope there are mp3s out there?