{"id":363545,"date":"2025-12-22T11:31:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363545\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:31:04","slug":"manis-funeral-latest-liam-gallagher-and-david-beckham-join-mourners-at-manchester-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363545\/","title":{"rendered":"Mani&#8217;s funeral latest: Liam Gallagher and David Beckham join mourners at Manchester Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mani&#8217;s rise to a Madchester heropublished at 10:46 GMT<\/p>\n<p>10:46 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mani playing the bass in a black and white photo in 1994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/90bb09cc-93f2-4118-a0e8-c7181170871d.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"671\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Martyn Goodacre\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">1962: Mani is born in Crumpsall, north Manchester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Early 1980s: After leaving school at 16, he forms the band the Fireside Chaps with John Squire and Andy Couzens. After some name changes and bringing in Ian Brown as frontman, they become The Stone Roses &#8211; playing their first official gig in 1984.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">1989: Their debut, self-titled album The Stone Roses is released &#8211; featuring breakthrough tracks &#8220;Fools Gold&#8221; and &#8220;I Wanna Be Adored&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">1990: The Stone Roses play their infamous gig at Spike Island in Widness, to a crowd of 27,000 (although countless thousands more have subsequently claimed to be there!)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">1994: Second Coming, the band&#8217;s long-awaited second album, is released. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">1996: The Stone Roses split up, then Mani joins Primal Scream &#8211; who he plays with for 15 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">2005: Mani also joins three-man-band Freebass, with New Order\u2019s Peter Hook and Andy Rourke from The Smiths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">2011: Mani leaves Primal Scream to join The Stone Roses reunion &#8211; playing festival sets and stadium shows before the band disbands again in 2017. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mani&#8217;s rise to a Madchester heropublished at 10:46 GMT 10:46 GMT Image source, Martyn Goodacre\/Getty Images 1962: Mani&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-363545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}