“Ping! Ping! Ping!” go the message notifications on Johnny Marr’s speakers, interrupting his answers during a Zoom interview until the Mancunian guitarist says, with faux indignation: “Go away, Hans Zimmer!”
His friend and collaborator on a number of blockbuster movie soundtracks was messaging Marr in the weeks beforeand hear the duo’s fittingly debonair and dangerous accompanying music. Keen as Marr was for 007 diehards to finally see the new movie after it was pushed back several months throughout the pandemic, current Bond Daniel Craig isn’t ex-The Smiths’ guitarist’s favorite to take on the role. Instead, he loves the 1969, George Lazenby starring classic
