Overview
Two men reach the end of the 1980s carrying something heavier than failure: success. Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr know the drag of legend-and they understand that, to stay alive, they need to build a new room. They call it Electronic: an anti-band, an escape hatch, a laboratory where the studio becomes an instrument and a song is not born "finished," but assembled like architecture.
These pages tell the story of that room: the meeting and the wit, the "supergroup" myth stubbornly refused, the rare balance between dancefloor discipline and guitar intelligence-between melody and machine-driven momentum. From singles that arrive already iconic to sharper, stranger turns, right up to the final question: what was Electronic, really?
Not a footnote between The Smiths and New Order, but a long, close, intensely focused collaboration-one that left a door open between worlds that were never truly separate.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798249411381
- ISBN-10: 9798249411381
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: February 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.46 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.6 pounds
- Page Count: 200
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