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Stone Roses
| NAME: |
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Stone Roses |
| MEMBERS: |
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Ian Brown, Reni, John
Squire, Mani |
| HIGHEST CHART SINGLE: |
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Love Spreads - Number
Two |
| ESSENTIAL TUNE: |
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I Am The Resurrection |
| ESSENTIAL ALBUM: |
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The Stones Roses - BUY
NOW! |
| FASCINATING FACT: |
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Before becoming famous
with The Roses, John Squire made models for the television
series of Wind In The Willows |
| BAGGY RATING: |
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Top of the class |
SOME WRITING ON THE BAND:
Like Brando's Terry
Malloy in 'On the Waterfront', The Stone Roses will always
remain bound up in regret. Listen to those who worked
with them, followed them, and documented their career
and wait for the words 'What If…' to appear. Or just
listen to the group themselves; "I realised we could
have been the best band in the world and we blew it"
says Mani…"We had it all at our feet and we
threw it all away" says Ian Brown. You silly sods.
Wasted talent, wasted time - just wasted
when they could have been capitalising on everything that
astonishing debut album stood for - conventional wisdom
can only castigate The Stone Roses for coming apart at
the seams. But fast forward a decade to now, and imagine
how it might have been.
It's 2002 and the Roses are, as promised,
the biggest band in the world. Their sixth album, with
its downbeat melodies and lovelorn lyrics, sounds like
Travis and sells like Dido. Tickets are about to go on
sale for Spike Island 2002, a Pepsi-sponsored recreation
of the famous 1990 concert. It will be held in Berkshire,
near John Squire's mansion. Ian Brown tells the music
press that it doesn't matter that the gig is being held
hundreds of miles from the 1990 venue near Widnes: "Spike
Island is about a groove. It's in your head, not on a
map."
After that the Roses will board their
private jet and head out to the US for a 21-date tour.
A stage show to rival anything U2 have ever put together,
it's an exhausting undertaking but with the new album
a hot tip at the Grammies they need to keep that US profile
up. Besides, Ian Brown has just bought an island in the
Caribbean, so as soon as the tour finishes the band will
hole up there for a few weeks to escape the press and
the fans.
Happy now? The Roses on Letterman, or
MTV, or peering out from every tabloid as they party and
marry and get richer still? The Roses no longer a breathtaking
band but a celebrity freak show, sipping wine with Sting
and Jagger in Monte Carlo? Is that really what people
yearn for?
They were never a band built to
last, a band to rely on, a band who would out-sell Bon
Jovi and appear at a stadium nowhere near you. Better
to be brief and beautiful than interminable and aimless.
You can dwell on the regret, the messy dénouement,
the wasted promise, but to do so is missing the point.
The Stone Roses made a record, which, from start to finish,
skirts close to absolute perfection. Everything else is
incidental.
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