It's great Johnny is now totally comfortable carrying the mantle of the Smiths. He's doing a great job.
Excerpt from review of Blondie and JM:
"One of the delights of Blondie has always been Harry’s line readings, and so to hear her deliver “Oh, your hair is beautiful” in
Atomic, while touching her own white locks, transcended nostalgia. At 76, her voice may no longer have the velvet force it once did, but she brings to the songs a moving tenderness and generosity.
A similar feeling had been there in Johnny Marr’s support set. His performance of a number of classics, in particular
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out felt like an act of sharing. He wrote this music many years ago, and we have loved it for those years, and that gives artist and audience co-ownership. The songs of Blondie and the songs of the Smiths — we have squatters’ rights in their soul."
★★★★☆“Yeah,” said Debbie Harry, half to herself, “that doesn’t suck, does it?”What didn’t suck, she meant, was Blondie’s performance of The Tide Is High. Also n
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