Chords for Johnny Marr on The One Show 11/09/15

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_ _ _ _ _ Now, one of the musicians Chrissie has performed on stage with in her long career is the awesome Johnny Marr,
the guitarist who shot to fame, of course, with The Smiths.
But who inspired him?
Well, Anzi went to find out.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ Bert Jansch is [E] considered to be one of the great pioneers of British folk [B] music.
And yet he remains [E] little known outside the world of serious [F] musos.
But his eccentric guitar [G] sound has influenced some of our most popular bands,
including one group who [A#] defined the 1980s.
[D] _ [B] And I should know, I introduced them once on the Old Grey Whistle Test. _ _
[C#] _ _ _ [E] _ Johnny [C#] Marr created the dynamic [C#m] sound of The Smiths.
[E] _ [B] I've come to Manchester [D#] to find out why he thinks Bert [E] Jansch is one [F#] of our greatest [C#m] ever guitarists.
_ [F#] Johnny, when and how did you first come to hear Bert Jansch?
_ The when was _ about 1976.
All the guys I used to hang out with in the housing estates in South Manchester were all guitar freaks.
A friend of mine [D#] played me this train song by Pensangle and it wasn't what I was expecting. _
Because it was _ [F#] jazzy and it was kind of bluesy and it was really coming from a different place.
[C#] And I just sought him out and I just tried to find all his [G#] records.
Bert's distinctive finger picking [D] style was a world away from the plectrum strumming
that [A] was the staple of most [G] guitarists at the time.
And yet it was all done on [A#] a [D#] simple and somewhat beaten up [B] acoustic guitar. _
Johnny.
[A] Oh dear, wow.
That is one of Bert's own Yamaha _ guitars.
Oh thank you, yeah.
It's a really [C] great sounding guitar. _ _
[F] Very bright isn't it?
Yeah. _ _ _
_ _ [A#] _ _ [C] _ You know it's [D#] got Bert's sound in it [D] really.
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_ _ _ Yeah, I could play it all day.
I might play it all day.
Give us an example of something [F#] very Bert Jansch which is atypical of how other people played.
[Em] Okay.
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_ _ _ _ [A] _ So what's going on there is [E] a very banging kind of big sound.
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_ _ [F] I put a Bert chord in it which is you know [E] very Bert which is_
_ He broke the rules musically really, didn't he?
People think of _ when you've got technique particularly on an acoustic as being quite pretty. _
But he [Bm] would just _ [C] be quite maverick and loose.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ And [Gm] Bert's maverick style [F#] influenced everyone from John Lennon and Paul [C#] Simon to Neil Young and Led [C#m] Zeppelin's Jimmy Page.
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Not to mention [A#m] Johnny's own band, [B] The Smiths.
So what's the most Bert-like song Johnny's ever [C#] written?
On the last Smiths album we [D] had this song, Unhappy Birthday.
I thought we needed something to get us into it and Bert had a song off the first album I've got of his, a song called Lady Nothing. _
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[Em] _ [D] _ _ _ [C] So how did you apply that to Unhappy Birthday?
So well the start of [D] Unhappy Birthday just goes_ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [D] I've [A] come to wish [F] you an unhappy _ [A#] birthday. _ _
[G] _ _ [D#] Johnny [G#] got to [G] join Bert on [Cm] stage before he died [G#] in [G] 2011 [C] and he's never tired [Cm] of playing his hero's [Fm] music.
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_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ Apart from all the amazing music he made and that he was so great on the guitar, he _ was cool and he made being cool mean [Gm] something.
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[G] _ _ [F] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] Notice I can [G] play Bert songs better than I can play them now.
_ [N] I play them more often than I play them then.
The Smiths, they'll never [F] catch on, John. They won't.
I've [G] forgotten all that stuff.
_ _ _ _ [N] Andy also spoke to Keith Richards this week so we're looking forward to hearing all about that as well.
And Chrissie out of all the guitarists_
Let's hear it for Johnny though.
Oh yeah, Johnny Marr.
_ What a man. _ _