The Stone Roses

The Stone Roses

The Stone Roses are an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1983. They were one of the pioneering groups of the Madchester movement that was active during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Other groups part of this movement include Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets and James. The band's current members are vocalist Ian Brown, guitarist John Squire, bassist Mani, and drummer Reni.

The band released their self-titled debut album, The Stone Roses, in 1989. The album was a breakthrough success for the band and garnered critical acclaim, with many critics regarding it as one of the greatest British albums ever recorded. 

As well as this, the group decided to capitalise on their success by signing to a major label but their current record label Silvertone would not let them out of their contract, which led to a long legal battle that culminated with the band signing with Geffen Records in 1991, releasing their second album Second Coming.

The Stone Roses called a press conference on 18th of October 2011 to announce that the band had reunited and would perform a reunion tour of the world in 2012, including three homecoming shows in Heaton Park, located in their hometown Manchester.

With NME

The day following Heaton Park, NME released this edition, featuring The Stone Roses exclusively on the 30th of June, 2012:

Furthermore, when announcing their reuniting, The Stone Roses again featured on NME, using an old classic and well known picture of the band as the main image which NME originally used for an older edition back in 1989:

1989                                                                       2011

NME then released another Stone Roses edition, featuring Shane Meadows who was directing the bands documentary, Made Of Stone at the time in April 2013:

Back in the 80's and 90's, The Stone Roses featured on numerous front covers of NME:

'I Wanna Be Adored' is one of the bands most popular songs and is featured as the first track in their Very Best collection. As well as this, the band always open with I Wanna Be Adored and has become iconic to Stone Roses fans everywhere.