God knows, I am now university teachers.

When rock stars wither, they go to the university: Johnny Marr, formerly of The Smiths, brought his guitar sound almost 22 years before an auditorium in Manchester to collapse. Marr is now at the old site back Berserker and lectures about the mean the music business.
  As Johnny Marr as a guest in the Maxwell Hall, had the building then be retreaded. 1986 was that, and Johnny Marr, there was still a guitarist with The Smiths. The band was totally in the crowded hall on the upper floor and raised the audience from the very first note moved into ecstasy. The rhythmic pounding of around two thousand feet massively damaged the floor, it threatened the collapse of the theater.
Four years of renovation work lasted until the building at the campus of the University of Salford heard back was to use. Live concerts, however, were also subsequently banned for many years.
On Tuesday evening the guitarist was a guest again in the Maxwell Hall, again in the main hall on the upper floor. It is also this to the last place filled. These are but also the only parallels to that memorable evening 22 years ago. The Smiths have long under the heading "There once was? Filed in rock history, and Johnny Marr is not as a musician on the podium, but as a lecturer in the Department of Music, Media and Performance" of the University of Salford.
Wisdom of a guitar legend
His appeal, known since October last year, had long before this gray and miserably cold November evening made headlines in Britain. Ironically, the University of Salford, in fact, the local stepchild in the shadow of the University of Manchester, had the guitar superhero native fish can. From publicity stunt was then the speech, and the university was placed under, just as it was possible to students in their courses to attract. Not true, says John Sweeney, the Executive Director of "Music, Media and Performance? Department. Again and again, its Department of professional musicians and lecturers from other universities for master classes obliged.
Indeed adorn the list of big names, such as the architects of the verkopften and music producer Robert Fripp and Brian Eno, in the past, guest lectures and master classes were supervised. Nevertheless, even as he initially had his doubts, Johnny Marr told the British newspaper "The Guardian", and for a pure PR action, he would also have been too bad. But "I have in recent years repeatedly with musicians and producers together, the graduates of the University of Salford were. I have with some of whom hold and quickly found out that Salford it is not necessary, to lure students. The demand for the courses is so great that the university students for years must reject. "
In fact, the small university in Manchester's neighboring city of Salford in the past two decades to a British top address in the fields of media studies and Performing Arts moulted. Her new university professor admits some freedoms, such as in an interview with the BBC Radio 4 broadcaster explained: "I like the university, I like the atmosphere and I love the people. Before I met my final decision, I just a little herumgeschnuppert me entertained with students, with future colleagues and ideas developed slowly. The leaders have wisely allowed me to discover myself, as I said in this environment best fit. "
Marr common: "I will let bubble burst"
This has lasted a whole year and now Johnny Marr knows exactly what form he wants to act. "My focus," he told the "Guardian", "is not so much the theory, but the practice. I wondered what my knowledge in the various stages of my musical development would have been really helpful, and I want to know this now my courses. As it is for production and studio work and go to the mechanisms of the music industry. I am quite sure many of the bubble can burst, these myths, by the rather harsh reality of the music scene are still veiled. "
The beginning he makes in his introduction lecture with the cryptic title "Always from the outside: Mavericks, innovators and building your own ark" ( "Always sidelined: querulous, outsiders and how to build their own ark"). Johnny Marr is a good lecturer, his talk is committed, witty and pithy.
That he by the music industry is not too much holding, is also very fast and delivers the clear statement of its seminar title: Never in its history, he claimed, had this from its own resources to create something new, but with its many financial lasting artists compromised . TV casting shows for musicians rejects the Alt-rocker from. There were always outsiders such as Bob Marley, Kurt Cobain or The Sex Pistols have been the popular music have given new impetus.
After the lecture Marr responds to the public on almost all issues. Only if the Smiths asked, after his relationship with their eccentric frontman Morrissey and the real reasons for separation, it is very monosyllabic and draws from. Otherwise, however, the lecture is a resounding success. The lecturers life can begin and the Maxwell Hall has the second appearance by Johnny Marr in one piece survived.