{"id":479860,"date":"2018-12-13T16:16:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T23:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=768863"},"modified":"2018-12-13T16:16:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T23:16:22","slug":"hear-johnny-marr-the-thes-matt-johnson-cover-summer-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-johnny-marr-the-thes-matt-johnson-cover-summer-in-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Johnny Marr, the The\u2019s Matt Johnson Cover \u2018Summer in the City\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Onetime bandmates Johnny Marr<\/a> and Matt Johnson have recorded a cover of the Lovin\u2019 Spoonful\u2019s \u201cSummer in the City.\u201d The version maintains the original\u2019s jaunty vibe, but with a chilliness that\u2019s unique to Marr and Johnson\u2019s music; Johnson recites the lyrics with detachment and Marr plays a soaring, bluesy solo at the end. Marr was a member of Johnson\u2019s band, the The, from 1988 through 1994. The duo gave the song its premiere last month at a show at London\u2019s Roundhouse; they recorded this version at the show\u2019s soundcheck.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been great to record with Matt again and to play alongside his amazing voice,\u201d Marr says in a statement. \u201cThe The is part of my life and we both always loved \u2018Summer in the City.\u2019 We\u2019ve made it our own.\u201d Johnson and Marr previously reunited last year to record the The\u2019s \u201cWe Can\u2019t Stop What\u2019s Coming.\u201d<\/a> That song appeared in a documentary about the The called The Inertia Variations<\/em>. They also released it as a seven-inch.<\/p>\n

Marr is releasing the audio from his Roundhouse show \u2014 which marked the first time in 25 years that he and Johnson shared a stage \u2014 via his website<\/a>. He plans on going back on the road in 2019.<\/p>\n

This year marked the first U.S. shows by the The in 18 years. The tour came on the heels of the release of The Inertia Variatons<\/em> and a biography of the group, Long Shadows, High Hopes<\/em>, which Johnson authorized and was written by Neil Fraser.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy decision to come out of\u00a0\u2018retirement\u2019 was triggered by personal events in my life,\u201d Johnson said in a statement at the time. \u201cMy older brother and long time collaborator Andy \u2018Dog\u2019 Johnson, who created many of the distinctive the The record sleeves over the years, passed away in January 2016. His death came in the middle of the filming of The Inertia Variations<\/em>, a Swedish feature length documentary that was being made about me.\u00a0Andrew\u2019s illness and subsequent death became a central part of the film and inspired me to write my first new song in many years, \u2018We Can\u2019t Stop What\u2019s Coming.\u2019\u00a0The whole situation caused me to reflect deeply about what I want to do with my life and so I decided to put a toe back in the water to feel the temperature.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Onetime bandmates Johnny Marr and Matt Johnson have recorded a cover of the Lovin\u2019 Spoonful\u2019s \u201cSummer in the City.\u201d The version maintains the original\u2019s jaunty vibe, but with a chilliness that\u2019s unique to Marr and Johnson\u2019s music; Johnson recites the lyrics with detachment and Marr plays a soaring, bluesy solo at the end. Marr was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-479860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 11:36:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}