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Johnny Marr reacts to British PM Andy Burnham playing a Smiths song on a guitar for soldiers in Ukraine: “I can’t quite get my head around it... for me, it’s like a victory for the guitar”

Johnny Marr [left] and Andy Burnham [right] playing some Smiths for a Ukrainian soldier.

Andy Burnham was visiting Kyiv in his first visit to Ukraine as British prime minister, when he was presented with an electric guitar as the cameras were rolling.

This was not to be unexpected – and it surely wasn’t. Burnham was in the mobile recording studio of Ukraine’s military and artistic unit. Even so, when passed with a Woodstock T-style he had a decision to make.

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