On the pitch, United, under Alex Ferguson, were slowly emerging from the fog of the 1970s and 1980s. Ten days after our first trophy under the Scot, the 1990 FA Cup, the Roses played Spike Island – an open-air gig, attended by 30,000 fans – which is acknowledged as th...
I love every song on their debut album. The Second Coming also has some great songs and other excellent B-sides, but this is the best. Such fantastic lyrics and rhythm, so easy to sing along to - a fantastic song. Love Spreads Elephant Stone The first Stone Roses song I bought on ...
Bye Bye Badman typifies that rebellious teenage attitude we all had as 17 or 18-year-olds and the softly spoken melodies that begin the track are a staple of almost every Roses tune from that debut album. It will always hold a place dear inside of me and is one of those songs you ...
The Seattlites' sophomore album knocks Guns 'N Roses off the top of the first-week sales ranking Music By David Thigpen Pearl Jam Define Their Moment in San Francisco After a record-breaking first week of 'Vs.' sales, the band proved its worth at the Warfield Music By Michael ...
The Stone Roses’ eponymously-titled first album is revered in the band’s home country. Many British music critics and artists wouldn’t fight the enduring claim that it’s the greatest of all time. Indeed, an Observer Music Monthly poll in the U.K. declared “The Stone Roses” just th...
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Paste:Tell me about your experience with The Stone Roses before this film. How did you discover them in the first place? Meadows:Oh, it was literally on cassettes. It was a recording, and you didn’t even know what they looked like. You just heard that album, and it was just incred...
Shoot You Down was also an important inclusion for The Stone Roses’ first gig after reforming, which was in 23rd May 2012 at a Warrington venue. Any doubts over whether the band still had it were quickly put aside, even if the likes of Reni hadn’t performed drums live since 1990. ...
In March 1992, the group vanished into the depths of Wales with John Leckie, producer of their first LP, ostensibly to begin recording the follow-up. Little concrete news emerged for another year, and various rumours began to circulate: that the Roses had lost the plot, that at least one...
Roses, as the eight album deal they had signed with their label, Silvertone, was now in dispute after their new found success. Silvertone placed an injunction on the band that prevented them from recording with any other label for nearly a year at the height of their popularity. It would...