Jun 7, 2006 • 1 min read

Johnny Marr says Smiths asked Linda McCartney to play on Frankly Mr Shankly

Johnny Marr tells NME that Morrissey asked Linda McCartney to play piano on 'Frankly Mr Shankly', but she declined.

Johnny Marr says in a new interview with NME that Morrissey asked the late Linda McCartney to play piano on the track 'Frankly Mr Shankly' on album 'The Queen Is Dead'. Marr said: "Morrissey wrote a postcard to Linda McCartney asking her to play piano on the track, but she said no. She just said she couldn't do it, we would have loved for her to do it because we were big fans of hers."

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