Johnny Marr on forming The Healers with Zak Starkey and playing Coachella: “We understand each other so well”
Johnny Marr has told NME about the early days of forming The Healers with Zak Starkey, following the re-release of their 2003 album ‘Boomslang’.In September, The Healers released a re-issue of ‘Boomslang’, which featured previously unheard material. The record saw the former Smiths guitarist join forces with Starkey, who he had met four years earlier at a The Who concert at Madison Square Garden. You can get the album here.Now, in exclusive quotes supplied to NME, Marr has shared details of their initial meeting, which he says was “When the actual nucleus of the band formed.” He recalled that, although Starkey was playing with The Who that night: “I didn’t know that when I met him.