{"id":329894,"date":"2025-12-22T14:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/329894\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T14:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:27:12","slug":"hundreds-attend-stone-roses-manis-star-studded-manchester-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/329894\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds attend Stone Roses’ Mani’s star-studded Manchester funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Mani on bass, Brown on vocals, John Squire on guitar and Alan “Reni” Wren on drums, The Stone Roses were at the forefront of the “Madchester” indie scene of the late 1980s and early 90s, which peaked with a famous gig at Spike Island in Widnes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They released their beloved eponymous debut album in 1989.<\/p>\n

The LP featured such classic songs as I Wanna Be Adored, She Bangs The Drums and I Am The Resurrection, all underpinned by the grooves of Mani’s basslines.<\/p>\n

It was named the greatest British album of all time by the Observer in 2004 and by the NME two years later.<\/p>\n

Its harder-rocking follow-up Second Coming came out in 1994. Both albums reached the top five in the UK.<\/p>\n

After the group disbanded in 1996, Mani joined Scottish rock band Primal Scream, first playing on their album Vanishing Point, released a year later, where his bass playing was a key part of krautrock-influenced lead single Kowalski.<\/p>\n

Mounfield would go on to record four more albums with Primal Scream before leaving in 2011 to reform The Stone Roses.<\/p>\n

The band released two further singles in 2016, but no full-length album followed and the group disbanded once more in 2017 after some old tensions resurfaced.<\/p>\n

The Stone Roses played a number of UK gigs over 2016 and 2017 before their split, including a concert at Glasgow’s Hampden Park, which would end up being the classic line-up’s final concert.<\/p>\n

Brown told the crowd: “Don’t be sad that it’s over, be happy that it happened.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Mani on bass, Brown on vocals, John Squire on guitar and Alan “Reni” Wren on drums, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-329894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}