Watch Johnny Marr and Noel Gallagher explore the stories of Marr’s iconic guitars: “I remember looking at one of them on the floor for the cover of ‘Supersonic’, going, ‘that cannot be the fucking Smiths’ guitar'”

Johnny Marr and Noel Gallagher have discussed the former Smiths man’s iconic guitars as part of a new exhibition in London.

READ MORE: Johnny Marr: “Bangers? They’re not to be sniffed at” Marr is set to auction off 80 of his guitars , including ones he played with The Smiths and Billie Eilish on September 17, which are currently part of an exhibition at Christie’s.

The legendary guitarist and Oasis chief recently visited the exhibition to explore the stories behind the guitars.

You can view it below.

The two Manchester-born artists inspected a 1982 black Rickenbacker 330 Semi-Hollow Electric Guitar, which Marr originally used to compose hit singles ‘This Charming Man’ and ‘What Difference Does It Make’.

“You’ve always been a bit gung ho with your guitars, because I remember the day when Oasis was recording ‘Definitely Maybe’ for the first time, and you sent down some guitars, because we had one guitar each!” Gallagher said.

“Someone took it out and just put it on the floor so it would look like we were a working band.

It’s on the cover of ‘Supersonic’.

I remember looking at it on the floor, going, ‘that cannot be the fucking Smiths’ guitar’.

There’s no fucking way he’s sent that down here to a load of geezers from fucking Longsight! I was like, ‘you better take that back, mate! What if someone stands on it rat arsed at 4 in the morning!'” Marr added: “It’s a good cover though, it does look good.” The instrument is expected to fetch up to £80,000, when it goes under the hammer along with a red Gibson ES-355TDSV electric guitar estimated between £100,000 and £150,000.

That guitar was originally purchased for Marr by Sire Records founder Seymour Stein to persuade The Smiths to sign to his label.

Inspecting it, Marr noted: “So many people associate me over the years with the Ricky (Rickenbacker).” Marr suggested that most people connect Gallagher with a red Gibson, to which Gallagher answered: “I got mine because of seeing you on Top Of The Pops! Those, to me, are the best guitars ever made.” Johnny Marr and Noel Gallagher CREDIT: Holly Murray Christie’s London Gallagher added one of the guitars Marr gave to him inspired him to play ‘Slide Away’ for the first time.

“That song never existed and it just came out of that guitar and I remember telling you once and you were like, ‘you fucking bastard’,” laughed Gallagher.

Marr played on three songs on Gallagher’s 2023 solo album ‘ Council Skies ‘.