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Composer and move soundtrack extraordinaire Hans Zimmer has revealed that he'll be working with friend and collaborator Johnny Marr on his next solo album.
The duo worked together on the soundtracks to Inception and The Amazing Spiderman 2, but now it looks like they'll be working together on Marr's next release.
Following on from comments Marr made to Gigwise about their work together, Zimmer told Bang Showbiz: '"Johnny's work on film scores is great.
"I always want to work with Johnny, he's actually got a plan - I don't want to talk about it too much - and he's roped me into something now, we're going to be doing a bit of role reversal. I'm going to be his humble arranger, which is going to be fun. It will be a case of Johnny telling me what to do and I'll do it. It will be for his next album."
He added: "Johnny is the most generous, brilliant and wonderful and polymorphic human being I know. You want to go and talk to him about paintings, you want to talk to him about literature, you want to talk to him about politics you better put a lot of time aside."
Listen to the soundtrack to The Amazing Spiderman 2 below
Speaking to Gigwise about his collaborations, Marr said: "I think of Hans, The Cribs, David Byrne, Beck, and almost anyone I've collaborated with in a serious way, we were all trying to make a really interesting pop record. Even with Hans on the movies, he's always trying to get me to be 'JOHNNY FUCKING MARR'.
Marr went on: "'JOHNNY FUCKING MARR'," Hans would say, 'BE JOHNNY FUCKING MARR - DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT I AM DOING'. We all love this thing called pop music or whatever genre we call it, but we're trying to find little drops of art in it. That's what it is. It nearly always works. I can't think of many times where we've had a misunderstanding with each other.
"I've learned a lot from Hans about being able to really go somewhere dramatic with guitars, that would be the only thing I'm interested in besides what I'm doing now. What I'm doing right now on my solo records is almost more challenging, because I'm trying to say a certain thing without being very, very introspective.
Meanwhile, Marr will be appearing at Hans Zimmer's London concert tomorrow (Saturday 11 October). Win tickets here.
Johnny Marr's new solo album Playland is out now. To celebrate, we asked him to take over Gigwise.
See our Johnny Marr takeover below
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