Johnny Marr
The Smiths
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Growing up in Manchester within an Irish immigrant family, he learned guitar on his own by studying vinyl records and a chord dictionary, forming his first band at thirteen. His breakthrough arrived when he co-founded the Smiths in 1982, where his jangly Rickenbacker and Fender Telecaster defined the group’s signature sound and earned critical acclaim throughout the mid-1980s. After the Smiths dis…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources