{"id":196333,"date":"2025-12-22T12:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/196333\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T12:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:01:06","slug":"manis-funeral-latest-stone-roses-ian-brown-pays-tribute-to-mani-at-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/196333\/","title":{"rendered":"Mani&#8217;s funeral latest: Stone Roses&#8217; Ian Brown pays tribute to Mani at funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mani &#8216;captured the spirit of Manchester more than anybody&#8217;published at 11:01 GMT<\/p>\n<p>11:01 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Robb in a black puffer jacket\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1c3364fd-7d79-4fcd-abcb-66b9b021bde5.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, PA Media<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think he&#8217;s a friend of everybody&#8217;s, that&#8217;s the thing&#8221; says John Robb, of the post-punk band The Membranes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everybody had a really great story about him,&#8221; Robb tells reporters on his way up the steps of Manchester Cathedral<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robb adds that Mani &#8220;captured the spirit of Manchester more than anybody. He was quintessentially Mancunian&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s why this is such a big deal today.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was a really brilliant bass player, but somebody who it was always a pleasure to bump into&#8221; he says, &#8220;so I think that&#8217;s the ultimate epitaph for anybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mani &#8216;captured the spirit of Manchester more than anybody&#8217;published at 11:01 GMT 11:01 GMT Image source, PA Media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-196333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}