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Lot Essay
Following the four-year development and successful release of the Fender Johnny Marr Signature Jaguar in January 2012 (see footnotes to lot 82 and 83), Fender built three custom colour variants for Johnny in June 2013. Intended for use on the festival circuit that summer, the three one-off signature Jags were finished in Fender’s Sonic Blue, Sherwood Green and Candy Apple Red. In keeping with the titular superhero’s famous bright red and blue costume, Marr enlisted the Candy Apple Red Jaguar, along with his trusty Gibson EDS-1275 double-neck, on the soundtrack for Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in early 2014. Following their successful collaboration on the score for Christopher Nolan's Inception in 2010, Oscar-winning Film composer Hans Zimmer brought Marr on board to co-write The Amazing Spider-Man 2 score as a member of the supergroup The Magnificent Six, along with Pharrell Williams, Michael Einziger, Junkie XL, Andrew Kawczynski, and Steve Mazzaro.
Hans and I got together, reveals Marr in a 2014 promotional featurette for the film and I think he registered a sort of level of excitement from me because, as a kid, that was my favourite superhero bar none. There’s a sort of mischievous quality, I think, to Spider-Man, and a sort of hyperactivity that appealed to me as a kid and still appeals to me now. Zimmer adds I didn’t pick [The Magnificent Six] because they’re famous, I picked them because they’re very good, and they’re very good because they’re collaborative. They understand storytelling. The storytelling aspect is really important, and this bunch… I mean, you try to hold them back. Marr is seen playing the Candy Apple Red Jaguar in various behind the scenes footage filmed by Columbia Pictures for promotional features ahead of the film’s release. When the soundtrack was released alongside the film in April 2014, Zimmer told the press: When we came together to form a band to create the music of this film, we did the opposite of what composers usually do – we wrote songs, and from the songs came the themes. We embraced a rock-and-roll ethos on this movie, and it paid off.
At some point after the soundtrack recording, the “Generate” decal was applied to the guitar in reference to the song ‘Generate! Generate!’ from Marr’s 2013 debut solo album The Messenger, which has become a staple of his live shows. Marr recalls that he used this guitar for a handful of live performances on The Messenger Tour in 2013-2014 and the Playland Tour in 2015, although no photographs have yet come to light. Studio photographs show Marr with this guitar during early sessions for his fourth solo studio album Fever Dreams Pts 1-4 in 2020-2021 and again during rehearsals for the Spirit Power Tour in 2024.
Hans and I got together, reveals Marr in a 2014 promotional featurette for the film and I think he registered a sort of level of excitement from me because, as a kid, that was my favourite superhero bar none. There’s a sort of mischievous quality, I think, to Spider-Man, and a sort of hyperactivity that appealed to me as a kid and still appeals to me now. Zimmer adds I didn’t pick [The Magnificent Six] because they’re famous, I picked them because they’re very good, and they’re very good because they’re collaborative. They understand storytelling. The storytelling aspect is really important, and this bunch… I mean, you try to hold them back. Marr is seen playing the Candy Apple Red Jaguar in various behind the scenes footage filmed by Columbia Pictures for promotional features ahead of the film’s release. When the soundtrack was released alongside the film in April 2014, Zimmer told the press: When we came together to form a band to create the music of this film, we did the opposite of what composers usually do – we wrote songs, and from the songs came the themes. We embraced a rock-and-roll ethos on this movie, and it paid off.
At some point after the soundtrack recording, the “Generate” decal was applied to the guitar in reference to the song ‘Generate! Generate!’ from Marr’s 2013 debut solo album The Messenger, which has become a staple of his live shows. Marr recalls that he used this guitar for a handful of live performances on The Messenger Tour in 2013-2014 and the Playland Tour in 2015, although no photographs have yet come to light. Studio photographs show Marr with this guitar during early sessions for his fourth solo studio album Fever Dreams Pts 1-4 in 2020-2021 and again during rehearsals for the Spirit Power Tour in 2024.