– We bonded over a lot of records, but we both loved that song in the same way at the same time. And that’s very likely to be the thing that inspired the music for Girlfriend in a Coma. We liked so many of the Trojan singles, and a whole list of other things in the glam-rock period – Sparks, Roxy Music, some David Bowie. And the Crystals we really loved, too. But if I had to mention one, it would be Bob and Marcia.

(Johnny Marr, fra The Guardian)