Hans Zimmer: 'I'll be working on Johnny Marr's next solo album'

Composer and move soundtrack extraordinaire Hans Zimmer has revealed that he'll be working with friend and collaborator Johnny Marr on his next solo album.

The duo worked together on the soundtracks to Inception and The Amazing Spiderman 2, but now it looks like they'll be working together on Marr's next release. 

"I always want to work with Johnny, he's actually got a plan - I don't want to talk about it too much - and he's roped me into something now, we're going to be doing a bit of role reversal. I'm going to be his humble arranger, which is going to be fun. It will be a case of Johnny telling me what to do and I'll do it. It will be for his next album."

He added: "Johnny is the most generous, brilliant and wonderful and polymorphic human being I know. You want to go and talk to him about paintings, you want to talk to him about literature, you want to talk to him about politics you better put a lot of time aside."

Marr went on: "'JOHNNY FUCKING MARR'," Hans would say, 'BE JOHNNY FUCKING MARR - DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT I AM DOING'. We all love this thing called pop music or whatever genre we call it, but we're trying to find little drops of art in it. That's what it is. It nearly always works. I can't think of many times where we've had a misunderstanding with each other.

"I've learned a lot from Hans about being able to really go somewhere dramatic with guitars, that would be the only thing I'm interested in besides what I'm doing now. What I'm doing right now on my solo records is almost more challenging, because I'm trying to say a certain thing without being very, very introspective.

Meanwhile, Marr will be appearing at Hans Zimmer's London concert tomorrow (Saturday 11 October). Win tickets here.