INTERVIEWER: Mr Hitchcock, what is your definition of happiness?
ALFRED HITCHCOCK: A clear horizon.
Nothing to worry about on your plate.
Only...
things that are creative...
and not destructive.
And that's within yourself, within me...
er...
er...I can't bear quarrelling,
I can't bear feelings between people.
I think hatred is wasted energy.
And it's all nonproductive.
So I'm very sensitive.
A sharp word said by, say, a person who has a temper...
...er...if they're close to me...
...hurts me for days.
I know we're only human,
we do go in for these, er...
various emotions, call them negative emotions...
...but when all these are removed,
and you can look forward and the road is clear ahead,
and now you're going to create something...
...I think that's as happy as I would ever want to be.
(# STONE ROSES: I Wanna Be Adored)
# I don't have to sell my soul
# He's already in me... #
We expect to be huge or we wouldn't be doing it.
We expect to be a big group. We know we 'll be a big group.
It's just a matter of the people who don't like us to catch up.
# ...I wanna be adored
# I wanna be adored... #
We just ignored the rest of the world and concentrated on breaking Manchester
because we want to be the biggest band in our street.
# ...I don't have to sell my soul... #
And they offered us a contract. "Yeah, all right..."
We're all gonna be in the French Foreign Legion after two LPs.
# ...Sell my soul
# He's already in there... #
Last week, a relatively unknown band sold out London's 7,000 capacity
Alexandra Palace purely on the strength of word of mouth.
Seemingly, Manchester's Stone Roses have overnight made the leap
from promising cult band to the hottest musical phenomenon of the moment.
REPORTER: Their first album sold more than a million and spawned
an army of fans in flares and baggy T-shirts.
But after that hugely successful debut, there was silence.
The Roses became embroiled in a dispute with their record company.
MANI: it was just horrible to have created all that momentum
and get to the top of your game and then have
the rug whipped out from under your feet. We were injuncted
for two-and-a-half years.
We should have got a paper round or a job in a sweet shop.
We just ended up sitting about or rehearsing and stuff.
There was no outlet for us.
# ...I wanna, I wanna be adored I wanna
# I wanna, I wanna be adored
# I wanna, I wanna
# I gotta be adored... #
MAN: It's been six years since there was new material.
I was gonna ask you if maybe you thought
maybe you might have been forgotten or something.
# ...I wanna be adored... #
Have you heard from Reni if he's on the way yet?
Yeah, but he was on the train an hour before.
CHILD: Why are ice cubes icy?
Looks like I'm doing this on me own. Lads aren't coming.
It's all right. I'll cover for you, lads.
- Do you need a stunt double? - I'll cover for 'em, innit?
Take a seat. Get a seat. Do you want a tea?
Reni, Tom, have you met Shane yet?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Hiya, mate. - Hi, Shane.
Well, who'd-a thunk it? You did, didn't you?
I used to laugh at your dreams, innit?
Dreams of millionaires used to make me chuckle.
I've had people phoning up for guest lists already.
No concert has been put on t'fucking town yet, has it?
- Exactly. - People phoning up for jobs.
I've had so many asking for jobs.
Honestly, so many for jobs.
Imelda phoned our Greg and said,
"Do you know your kid's been fuckin' at death's door for two weeks?
"Er, put him on."
"Me and the Doug round for a fuckin' rat back on the swag, then."
First words out of his mouth. I just went, "No."
How long have we got, Simon?
Er, you go down in about two or three minutes, about two minutes past.
Two minutes to go.
Let these lads out of the lift, come on.
MAN: Everybody, my name's Murray Chalmers. Thanks for coming today.
What am I doing?
I'm very, very thrilled, personally, to introduce, um...
the Stone Roses.
Thank you for that.
- Good afternoon. - Thanks for that, nice one.
So we've just come here to deny that we're reforming, that's all.
- See ya!
REPORTER: There's been a lot of speculation over the last few days
about live dates. I wondered if you could tell us what your plans are.
Our plan's to shake up the world.
You know, we're gonna go round the world next year
and we're gonna start off in our home town, Manchester,
and we're gonna play two bigs... two big gigs at Heaton Park.
End of June, June 29, June 30.
And then after that, we're gonna take it round the world.
Colin Paterson, Radio 5 Live. John, two years ago, you made that artwork saying,
"I've no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group
"the Stone Roses." What's changed?
Um, well, everything changed when me and Ian started seeing each other again.
It was surreal. We went from...
crying and laughing about the old days
to writing songs in a heartbeat.
It completely changed me outlook
and made me think it was possible, it might even be enjoyable.
And that's turned out to be the case.
It's...
In some ways it's a friendship that defines us both and it needed fixing.
And two phone calls later, the band was no longer dead, so...
there is no grave.
This is a live resurrection that we're inviting you to,
so you'd better be careful.
# Bones of an impressive romance
# Scattered all across the sand
# A secret safe with all the world
# Too vain to seem so capable
# Can you hear it calling?
# Do you feel warmer?
#As the hired hand's exposed... #
JOHN: We didn't hang out together at school.
Our relationship formed after school, through music.
Virtually everything we did together was related to music.
# ...You kiss the girls and make them die... #
IAN: We used to make our own scooters, yeah.
We weren't mods, but we used to go to Northern Soul all-nighters.
We used to make our own choppers
and bone down scooters, used to go all over, yeah.
That'd be '80, '81.
JOHN: l think I was 14, and when I heard God Save The Queen
and realised how electric guitars could be made to sound,
I started pestering me dad for a guitar.
Got a paper round, started hanging around guitar shops on the way home from school.
I think it was the next Christmas, actually, er, I got the guitar.
I can remember sitting depressed on the windowsill in me bedroom, no amplifier,
picking me way through Three Blind Mice on one string
and wondering how long it would take.
MARK: I haven't got a remote control, so I didn't bother with me telly.
SHANE: Mine, erm... Yeah, I think they assume in my room
that you're gonna sit on the floor to watch telly.
MARK: Mm.
Cor, that day I got that phone call.
God, yeah.
- We were going to Dinard, wasn't it? - Yeah, I was in a taxi.
The taxi dro... Cos normally I'm really paranoid.
You know when you're in a train and you're talking
and there's people on there that don't care
and they talk so loud, you wanna punch their faces off.
But this taxi driver was, erm... just heard everything
and I was like a two-year-old, like, half crying and that in the car.
You know, it's not very often, is it, that one of your heroes rings you
when you're going to a film festival
and asks you to make a documentary about your all-time favourite band
that are getting back together after 20 years?
- Is it this one? - It is this one. God, it is.
Here we are.
Shall we set it all up so when they come in, we're playing?!
- Yeah! - # Flippin' fool's gold! #
So, we're here, then. The Stone Roses' secret location.
Where is it, Mark?
I know it's, like, in between Manchester and Liverpool.
- Warrington. - It's Warrington way, is it?
Yeah,yeah,yeah.
- So... - Tea's here folks.
Right, tea's up, so we can go in for the first time.
The band aren't here... er, till about one o'clock.
- Is everything on, chief? - Yeah.
- They'll be, er... They'll be on...
I've got a note from Reni.
"Shane, feel free to shift this electric practice kit. Reni."
That's going straight in the scrapbook.
MARK: Look at that. What a set that's gonna be.
SHANE: Oh, my God.
SHANE: Jesus.
MARK: Bye Bye Badman.
Newie.
They're actually gonna play some new songs.
Brilliant.
Wow.
# Where there's life There's gotta be hope
# And where there's a will There's a way... #
VOICEOVER: There is, of course, Hulme,
capable of reducing even hardened inner-city dwellers to shocked silence.
IAN: I'm in Hulme, it's 1983, and me girl's just had a party. She's...
She's 21, and, um, a kid called Glen that used to work with New Order,
he brought Geno to the party - he'd just played Salford Tech.
- INTERVIEWER: Geno Washington. - Geno Washington, yeah.
# What you want
# She can't give
# I'll take her lovin'... #
IAN: And during the party, Geno keeps telling me I'm a star.
"You're a star, you're a star, you're a star.
"You should be a singer, you're a star."
And I'm like, "What's up with this old guy?" Like, you know, he's on me case.
He just kept saying it to me all night, "Be a singer."
He kept saying, "Be a singer. Go for it, be a singer."
VOICEOVER: The influences fermented.
Geno Washington's advice was taken and the Stone Roses were formed.
IAN: And Pete Townshend was at the first ever gig that we ever played.
He says, "Oh, you look great up there on stage."
He did a little spot and he wanted Reni to play with him,
so our first ever gig, Reni jammed with him at the end.
He says to Reni, "I want you for me solo LP."
Reni's like, "No, these are me boys."
JOHN: We loved doing it, you know.
Loved being together, loved playing music, you know.
Stinking, beer-sodden cellar.
IAN: I'm back, what about town, town.
Stormin' sound of soul.
I am the magnificent!
I'm back, with the top-most tallerman stormin' sound of soul.
(# STONE ROSES: Something's Burning)
# Don't count your chickens Cos they're never gonna hatch
# You can't catch a monkey with a shotgun and a sack
# Cos you're too dull, baby
# You can't see the wood for the trees
# Yeah, you're too slow, baby
# You just couldn't get off your knees... #
Try something. Just try this.
Yeah.
See, what I did then, you know, so that I don't have to cut it off with the, er...
You know, I'm only doing that one time in this new version
so if we do it two times there at that point,
then that's where we can bring in the...
"What you gonna do with the rest of your life" bit there.
Yeah, OK.
So, I'll sing two full choruses then bring it in there.
So, the gap where the solo used to go...
you fill through the gap with the rolling snare
and we come back in on, "What are you gonna do with the rest of your life?"
- We haven't tried that yet. - All right.
Let's take it from that, erm... that, "Don't knock a young man" verse.
RENI: Listen, your arrangement skills have really come on, you know,
since you've become a middle-aged man.
Your drumming's got very good.
I really like your tiger shirt.
I used to have one of them when I was at school, when I was really small.
Very smart. Very smart.
I might have a fucking cig.
(# STONE ROSES: Tell Me)
# You can't tell me, you can't tell me
# You can't tell me anything
# I love only me, I love only me
# I've got the answer to everything... #
IAN: We all write all our music. It's all joint effort.
We just get in a room, and just play along and bash it out,
and at the end of the night, we've got a decent song.
We write about our friends and we write about the things we want.
So, there's no inspiration from anybody who's written anything.
But we like a lot of '60s music.
- Yeah. - Erm, '60s psychedelic stuff.
We like a lot of early punk stuff, so we try and combine the melodic...
you know, the melody of the '60s stuff with the energy of the punk stuff.
We're not a punk band and we're not a '60s band.
We're just an '80s band.
# ...Tell me, tell me
# You tell me anything
# You can't tell, you won't tell
# Me anything, anything
# Tell me, tell me
# You tell me anything
# You can't tell, you won't tell
# Me anything, anything... #
MANI: I met them via the scooter scene of the early '80s.
Yeah, well, they were mates and I used to go watching 'em.
I kind of always had an inkling I'd end up in 'em somehow.
I don't know how, but I just knew, you know.
It was just a matter of biding me time.
Mani joined about October '87
and we did Elephant Stone, and it had a groove.
And Mani was an important part of that.
Him and Reni locking together gave us a groove.
# ...You know it And the time has come... #
You've had it, Davs. It's a belter, that.
- # ...To shoot you down. # - Bad move, mate. It's a belter, that.
It is a good 'un, that, Dav, though, actually.
DAV: Do you know, when I rocked up, I thought, "They're gonna be boss."
- It's a good Scouse brew that, innit? - DAV: Yeah! Flying Scouse.
You can taste the hubcaps.
(# STONE ROSES: Where Angels Play)
# Come with me to a place
# No eyes have ever seen
# A million miles from here
# Where no-one's ever been
# God-given grace
# And a holy heaven face
# I'm on the edge of something shadowy
# I'm coming through
# OK, let's fly, she says
# This carpet's made for two
# This ugly little box
# No place for me and you
# Our carpet falls
# On a dew-fresh dappled glade
# Take a look around
# There's something happening
# All the colours fade
# I don't want you now
# Bang-bang, bang, gone, ooh
# I don't need you now
# The seeds are sown, ooh
# Bang-bang, pretty-pretty, bang-bang
# I don't think so, no, no
# Bang-bang, bang-bang... #
(# STONE ROSES: Shoot You Down)
MANY. When we embarked on... on recording the first album,
there was a right...
right old adventure into London with John Leckie and all that.
They were quite special times, cos we kind of knew we had...we had something
and it was just a matter of waiting for... to see how...
how Leckie would transmute what was in our minds and get...
and how to get that onto tape, and, er... It's a wonderful journey
just to...just to see it evolve, and it becomes what it becomes, you know.
# ...I'd love to do it and you know you've always had it coming... #
Good for stretching the old vertebrae, John.
It's the shoulders it gets, not your wrists.
# You know it
# You show it
# And the time has come
# To shoot you down
# What a sound
# When the day is done
# And it all works out
# I'd love to do it and you know you've always had it coming. #
OK?
Right, do you want me to ask one of you or both of you first?
Depends what it is.
Oh. What would you prefer, both of you, then?
- Yeah. - OK.
Go?
Right, are you fed up that it's taken so long for people outside of Manchester
and the Northwest to catch up with you?
- No. - No.
Are you bitter, then, that journalists are sort of falling over themselves
to talk to you now?
No.
Nah, not bitter at all.
They're on our case.
Um, do you think that Stone Roses have got an insecure way of life
or do you think being in a band is quite insecure?
You'll have to tell me why you thought we were insecure.
Sorry?
I don't think we've got an insecure way of life, no.
Well, you never know whether people are gonna buy your records
and you never know whether you're gonna make enough money to live, are you?
Yeah, well, that's not why you're doing it, is it?
You just fall into something. You don't think about the security of it.
Otherwise you'd never get anywhere.
What's the best thing that anybody's ever said about the band, then?
John?
Ian?
IAN: Don't know.
We're not that interested in the band, really, to tell you the truth.
Do you think that, um... you're going to be one of those bands
that people cite as an influence in years to come,
or would you like to be like that?
Hopefully people will form groups as a result of seeing us.
Hopefully we show people that you don't have to be...
crap to get anywhere.
Yeah, hopefully.
How do you feel when you see people walking out of one of your gigs?
Depends what they look like.
If they're dressed well then I'm a bit disappointed.
If they're a clown then I'm not bothered.
Well, don't you get hurt by people who don't like you?
Do you think everybody should like you?
JOHN: I don't expect anything.
Yeah, but you say...you all say you expect to be the best band in the world, so...?
No, we know that we are.
We don't expect anyone else to think anything in particular about us.
They can think and do what they want.
Well, if you're the best band in the world, why aren't you number one?
Because the record isn't out yet?
Why wasn't your last single number one, and why wasn't the album number one?
It takes time for people to get, you know...acquainted.
Takes time for people to fall in love with you.
But it's inevitable.
What's that?
It's the original graffiti artist called Vaughn Bodé.
He did, like, a series of, er...books called Erotica, and all erotic cartoons.
And his missus just got the rights back after 30 years.
I think he died about 30 years ago.
Is that the guy that did Alice in Bunnyland?
I dunno. He's the one that inspired all the New York graffiti artists and that.
Were the rights all stuck together?
- What are we doing first? Waterfall? - IAN: Yeah.
(# STONE ROSES: Waterfall)
# Chimes sing Sunday morn
# Today's the day she's sworn
# To steal what she never could own
# And race from this hole she calls home
# Now you're at the wheel
# Tell me how, how does it feel?
# So good to have equalised
# To lift up the lids of your eyes
# As the miles, they disappear
# See land begin to clear
# Free from the filth and the scum
# This American satellite's won
# She'll carry on through it all
# She's a waterfall
# She'll carry on through it all
# She's a waterfall
# See the steeple pine
# The hills as old as time
# Soon to be put to the test
# To be whipped by the winds of the west
# Stands on shifting sands
# The scales held in her hands
# The wind, it just whips her away
# And fills up her brigantine sails
# She'll carry on through it all
# She's a waterfall
# She'll carry on through it all She's a waterfall... #
My name's Ian Brown.
My name's Reni.
My name's Gary Mounfield.
My name's Derek.
We want as much attention as we can get
cos we believe that we're good enough to receive the attention.
We don't think we've had enough attention.
Don't think we can have too much publicity.
(# STONE ROSES: I Am The Resurrection)
NEWSREADER: After years building up a loyal Manchester following,
suddenly they're darlings of the music press
and number one in the independent charts.
# Down, down, you bring me down
# I hear you knocking down my door
# And I can't sleep at night
# Your face, it has no place
# No room for you inside my house
# I need to be alone
# Don't waste your words
# I don't need anything from you
# I don't care where you've been or what you plan to do... #
NEWSREADER: Gary Mounfield, John Squire, Alan Wren and Ian Brown
arrived at Wolverhampton Crown Court to a noisy greeting from about 30 fans.
They admitted taking part in a revenge attack on the Wolverhampton offices
of FM Revolver and their former manager, Paul Birch,
after he re-promoted an earlier single.
Photographs show they poured paint over three cars,
threw a stone through a window of one,
tipped paint onto the floors and over Mr Birch himself.
The damage has been estimated at £27,000.
Sentencing the four, judge Michael Mod QC
said he could understand their indignation,
but he said what they'd done was, on the one level,
immature to the point of childishness, and extremely destructive on the other.
He said he'd considered a custodial sentence
but felt this would only lead to their notoriety
and ultimately be of benefit to them.
INTERVIEWER: How big do you think the Stone Roses will get?
I think we could be the biggest band ever.
- Really? - Yeah.
Denmark, Sweden, Norway in May,
- and we'll be playing Finland. - Q magazine,
Rolling Stone magazine, they're all talking about the Stone Roses.
...Stone Roses.
MAN: We've got the Stone Roses with us in the studio. Welcome, lads.
- Konnichiwa. - Thanks for that.
- What does that mean? - Konnichiwa... Hello.
OK, none of this. Look, I've gotta speak English round here.
Could you take this fish away?
You can take it away if you can't eat it now, sure.
- Sushi! - Does anyone want any fish?
# ...I am the resurrection and I am the light... #
And really only one story this weekend.
Stone Roses playing Spike Island?
The sun shone, the DJ spun, African drummers drummed,
and the TV companies and the band's management argued.
Retire, retire, retire,
retire.
Retire now, now.
# ...I am the resurrection and I am the light
# I couldn't ever bring myself
# To hate you as I'd like. #
Yeah, I'm, er... I'm stood at the moment in the, er...
in a corridor, an outside sort of corridor, at Parr Hall,
Tuesday the 22nd of May, and at about four o'clock,
I think, tomorrow, Wednesday the 23rd of May 2012,
there's going to be an announcement on Radio 1
that there's a free gig that the Stone Roses are playing.
Their first gig in 20 years.
And, erm...
And they're playing it here for a few of their very close friends and family
and about a thousand people who turn up first.
It's weird, cos when they first announced that they were coming back,
they announced the Heaton Park gigs,
um, but I think once the band started rehearsing,
they realised that, in a way, they needed a warm-up of some kind.
And so this, for me, has become the all-important gig, really,
cos I suppose any genuine fan is gonna wanna be at that first moment,
you know, and I wasn't a trendy kid from anywhere near Manchester
when I was a kid, so I missed all the really cool gigs.
I just heard cassettes on mates' record players in flats in Uttoxeter.
I was never at any of these events, so for me tomorrow, this is kind of...
In a way, it's like my Spike Island, potentially, tomorrow.
Everything that I missed I can make up for all in this one gig.
I just obviously can't quite believe that it's happening.
MAN ON RADIO: Yep, big news. Check this out.
So, it's just been announced in the last few minutes that Stone Roses
are doing a special gig tonight- Warrington Parr Hall.
Yeah, Warrington Parr Hall!
It's a free concert.
Fans can collect one wristband per person from the Warrington Pyramid box office,
which is next to the Parr Hall, from four o'clock today.
just show that you're a fan and if you're there in time,
you'll get a wristband for tonight's gig.
Stone Roses tonight- Warrington Parr Hall.
That's pretty big news, innit? Get down there quick.
I've been fucking everywhere, mate. Nothing.
- Come on, Dad, you'll just make it. - I'm here. I'm in the car park. I'm here.
Spread like wildfire, hasn't it? Don't take long, does it?
Facebook's got a lot to answer for, hasn't it?
I had to lie, right. I had to lie to me, er...to me boss
and say my father-in-law's had a heart attack.
Straight UP!
Well, once I'm in that door, I'll be buzzin',
but until I get through that door and I've got me wristband on...
I'm on edge right now! I'm on edge.
To qualify for a wristband to this very special warm-up show,
fans will need to take a Stone Roses either CD inlay cover, a record sleeve,
official band T-shirt, or a Heaton Park ticket.
Present any of the above to the Pyramid box office in exchange for a wristband.
Wristbands for the show are very limited.
One each, one each, one each.
You've gotta do it quite quickly though, OK?
- MAN: Cheers. - WOMAN: You're welcome.
OK, if you'd just put your arm down there for me.
- Excellent, thank you. - Cheers.
I've seen 'em at Legends in Warrington, er, about 15 years ago
and in the Hacienda as well.
- MAN: Really? - Yeah. Oh, aye.
42 now, even though I don't look it.
- There we go. - Thank you.
Come on, hey!
- Yaaoow! - Where's the actual CD?
It's in the car. We've been playing it all the time.
Alex, I'm gonna have to go cos I'm probably gonna get clamped.
- All right. - Yes!
That's how far I've run! Look at that!
Saw this band the first time 1989, over the road there in Legends.
Before the album came out.
Look at 'em now - Heaton Park.
Made up to be here tonight as well,
cos I don't think I'll be sober for Heaton Park.
- Oh, round the back? - Have you got merchandise with you?
Hi. Right, I've just been down - you can only get them for yourself.
- Yeah, go ahead. - Cheers, mate.
- Yeah, go ahead. - Thanks.
You need merchandise.
Can I just go in to see me two mates, mate?
No, mate, you need merchandise first.
We didn't bring any memorabilia, but it's on its way.
Express delivery.
It's on its way, isn't it?
- Are you meant to be working? - Yeah, I've actually left.
I've knocked through into the house and not even boarded up.
So, if you're watching, Richard, sorry, mate, I'll sort it out tomorrow.
I've got tickets for Heaton Park,
so obviously I didn't think this was gonna be coming,
but to be here now, before that, is absolutely amazing.
And I just can't wait to get in there tonight and rock it.
RADIO JINGLE: This is BBC Radio 6 Music.
WOMAN: BBC News at five o'clock.
- I'm Justine Greene. - MAN: Our top story this hour,
and Stone Roses have announced they will play
a free show in Warrington tonight at Parr Hall.
Fans were having to produce a Stone Roses CD inlay cover,
a record sleeve, official band T-shirts
or a Heaton Park ticket to qualify for a wristband.
In the meantime, ahead of their...
Er, I don't...I don't know. I'm at the front. just...just get here.
Facebook, they announced it about an hour ago on Facebook,
and someone text me about nine o'clock this morning.
I don't know how they heard about it.
And then they've just announced it on the radio as well.
I'm in Marleigh... I'm on... I'm on Winmarleigh Street now.
But there's still people queuing, so I don't know how many's left.
Why don't you try and come and get one now?
Get your CD and get in the car quick.
Right...come on!
(# STONE ROSES: Shoot You Down)
# ...You know it
# You show it
# But I can't back down
# It's far too late, I can't wait
# Till the day is done
# And it all works out... #
- Get in! - Yay!
- Get in!
Me and me husband went, well, 21 years ago,
and I was pregnant with me daughter, who wants a ticket.
So, I've gotta go!
I was, like, seven months pregnant.
And it was the best gig ever.
And then we went down to the Alhambra Palais a few weeks later.
It was awesome.
But, hey, never get old.
I don't know how long they've planned it, but it's certainly got round the town.
- Yeah, it really has. - You're a big fan, then?
Oh, er, yeah, I am. Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Ever since the old days. - Are you?
- Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. - You're a local lad?
Yes, I am, yeah. Hacienda days and everything
- Are you? - Oh, yes, yes.
Missus bought it me for Christmas.
Pride of place on me, er...on me wall.
I've waited a long time for this, so hopefully we'll get a ticket.
I'm not really a fan. It's her. She's a...
- Yeah, she's the fan. Yeah, obviously! - Yeah, yeah. Cressa!
Three weeks old, he is.
I was like that whether to come or not, you know.
Just finished a feed and I thought, bollocks, let's get down there!
It's just one of them things. It's just once in a lifetime, innit?
I mean, when I was 15, 16, that's all there was, you know?
Erm, they were the main thing then, weren't they?
SHANE: Is it just you, or is the little 'un coming as well?
Unfortunately he can't- he's not old enough.
- Who's looking after him, then? - His dad.
I was doing some office work at home about half an hour ago,
on Facebook, came up, kecks on, van, here.
The baby's at the child minder's, erm... Everything's gone out the window, really.
MAN: Why are they so important to people? Why are they so special?
You know and I know, but you can't write it down, can you?
All these lot know. Everyone knows.
Tattoos... You know, there's a reason why I've still got me hair like this,
like, 20 years later, you know what I mean?
There's a reason why I've never worn a tie.
There's a reason why I listen to that album at least once a week.
And it still makes me tingle.
There's a reason why I'm here and my child minder's looking after my baby somewhere.
That's how it is.
Absolutely magic. I can't believe they're doing this.
Bob-on! Top banana.
Get in! Fucking get in there!
Aww!
Aww, I'm so pleased!
MAN: Guys, tickets have gone.
- Cheers, thank you. - You're the last one!
I'm just lucky, I guess. Good reason to leave work, eh?
MAN: Guys, it's gone.
Can we wait until the queue dies down instead?
We'll wait until the queue's gone and then...
There's no chance of getting tickets now, guys. Sorry.
They've gone.
Put it this way - fuck not getting tickets, man.
The Stone Roses, definitely at the time they come out,
they were the best band since the Beatles then.
Check this shit out. That's what you call a song book of songs by proper lads.
Gutted I missed out on the, er, Spike Island gig
and it looks like I'm missing out on this one as well,
but I'll be there at Heaton Park, put it that way.
MAN: At least we can hear them. We can hear them.
When me and Mani and all them, we used to hang around in town
when we was about 15 in, er, Discount Records.
Don't know if you remember that. Do you remember that?
Discount Records and that? And we...
All the lads from all the other areas used to come and all that,
and we'd hang around in town on Saturdays
and then go to, er, the Russell Club in Hulme and that...
- Scooter boys. - Oh, yeah, we used to go on scooter runs
and things like that in the late '70s.
They... They know their scooters, you know what I mean?
Even as a young Stone Roses fan, I've saw a lot...
- I listen to all the music. - Yeah.
You name a song, I know it.
- Go on, then. - Go on. Name a song.
What's that girl called who they sing about?
- About, er... - See? He don't even know.
- Being raped, being raped. - No, Sally Cinnamon I'm on about there.
Oh, Sally Cinnamon.
- Hey! Who are you raping there?! - I know another one. I know another one!
- Go on, then. - I know what one song's about,
but I can't reveal it to the camera.
Which animal out of the jungle do they sing about?
- Don't know that one. - Elephant Stone. Come on!
Elephant Stone! Oh, I know Elephant Stone.
You know what? You wouldn't last two minutes on Mastermind you.
Course I would.
Well, I found out when I got home on the news and it was too late, really,
but I've just seen about three people I know are going in
who know nothing about music.
I'm devastated. It's bittersweet.
I'm so close to them and I can't get in.
It's not really rock'n'roll, what I do.
I'm a deputy head teacher and I've seen a girl I work with
and I offered her a permanent job to let me to come in
and she's...she wouldn't swap it.
I've offered to give somebody me car,
but he's not having it, he's not having it at all.
Um...
I'm stopping short on me house, but I'm close to offering me house to get in.
But at least I'm here. I can say I was close to it.
- Here we go, guys. - MAN: Ian!
- WOMAN: Ian! - I wish you'd made it too, you know.
- Mani! - Mani, come 'ed.
- Hiya, Shane. All right? - How you doing?
It's on!
All right, mate?
- Everything's just perfect. - Everything's perfect.
(# LIL' LOUIS: French Kiss)
Yo!
That's how it begins, World War bloody Three. Yes, mate.
SHANE: Fucking hell, how you feeling, mate?
Woke up with a boner this morning! Like a kid on Christmas morning, mate.
SHANE: Fucking hell!
Yeah, I've been waiting years for it, Shane, but we're on! We're on.
The roll... We're rolling. OK?
See if you can get my head mic.
- How you doing? - No, mate.
I'm just listening to the tune to see what the tune was.
- Man, they're fucking rocking out there. - What time is it now?
- 20 past. - 20 past.
Ten minutes.
Fucking... I'm shitting me pants, me.
City winning the league, Stone Roses getting back together.
It's all too much.
They're the best band...the best band ever to come out of Manchester.
- Show time! Ready to roll! - Rocking and rolling!
Let's rock!
Show 'em what you got, fellas!
Whoo!
Well, keep that door shut. No-one through, yeah?
- Cheers, mate. - Nice one.
MANI: Invisible. Invisible.
- Show 'em what you've got, fellas. - Let's let this song roll a bit.
- Have a good one.
Is he gonna play Stoned Love? Stoned Love, the Supremes.
- That's not it. - This isn't it.
# Stoned love... #
That's what he had to play.
(# THE SUPREMES: Stoned Love)
- Oh, there we go. - There you go. That's the intro.
- # Stoned love... # - That's what I call a live version.
- Fucking said it wasn't. - Told you it was.
- Open that door, mate. - Ready?
# ...Stoned love... #
Don't stop recording.
Jesus fucking Christ!
How you doing, yeah?
(# STONE ROSES: I Wanna Be Adored)
# I don't have to sell my soul
# He's already in me
# I don't need to sell my soul
# He's already in me
# I wanna be adored
# I don't have to sell my soul
# He's already in me
# I don't need to sell my soul
# He's already in me
# I wanna be adored
# Adored
# I wanna be adored
# You adore me
I wanna, I wanna
# I wanna be adored
# I wanna, I wanna
# I wanna be adored
# I wanna, I wanna
# I wanna be adored
# I wanna, I wanna
# I gotta be adored
# I wanna be adored. #
(# STONE ROSES: Waterfall)
# Chimes sing Sunday morn
# Today's the day she's sworn
# To steal what she never could own
# And race from this hole she calls home... #
# ...Have you seen her? Have you heard?
# The way she plays There are no words
# To describe the way I feel
# How could it ever come to pass?
# She'll be the first, she'll be the last
# To describe the way I feel
# The way I feel... #
(# STONE ROSES: Made Of Stone)
# Sometimes I
# Fantasise
# When the streets are cold and lonely
# And the cars, they burn below me
# Don't these times fill your eyes?
# When the streets are cold and lonely
# And the cars, they burn below me
# Are you all alone?
# Are you made of stone?
# Oooh
# Ooh-ooh. #
And we're still good-looking!
Roses!
Cheers, Si.
Belter.
You look like you've been swimming!
- Nice one. - Cheers, Stu.
Bye, fellas.
Reni, I'll see you at yours.
Shall we go and do Fools Gold, then?
We should have. I'm outta here!
- Where you going? - I've gotta go see me bookie.
Don't be late.
- I'm never late. - Beauty!
See you later, Ren.
MANI: That's gone too quick, hasn't it? That's gone too quick.
That was spot-on.
They've matured. Do you know what I mean? They've matured.
Have they still got it? You don't ever lose that kind of shit!
Are you mad? They were amazing.
Best atmosphere at a gig ever.
Fantastic.
Three hours' wait and it was worth every minute of it to go in there tonight.
It's been amazing.
It's the best thing I've witnessed in all my 20 years.
It's the best thing I've witnessed.
Fuck Oasis, fuck Man City. It's all about the Stone Roses.
I've never seen anything like that. You...
You know when you get an album or a band's songs or whatever,
and you can have it with you, don't you, especially if they split up for years,
so you play it when...
you play it when you have a great time, you play it when people pass on,
you play it when you get married, you play it when your kids are born.
And, er, honestly, I was in pieces then.
When they started Made of Stone, I went to bits.
I just never thought I'd hear it, and it... Don't know.
I don't wanna be philosophical or anything,
but it makes you feel good that further down the line, things come good,
so I was completely buzzing about that.
I was the last man in tonight. No band, no nothing.
One of the managers took pity on me. I was devastated.
I was gonna listen to it outside the gig tonight
and he went, "Get in, you're in luck."
Last person through that door. Greatest gig of all time.
Stop music.
(# STONE ROSES: This is the One)
Not you again!
Hello, good evening.
MAN: Sexy T-shirt, Mani.
Just something I threw on.
SHANE: Yeah, the camera can't really take that, Mani.
What? It's like an explosion in the Refreshers factory, innit, man?!
# ...From the plans that she has made... #
- MANI: First in front of paying punters. - SHANE: Yeah.
You feel like a Premier League manager when you're trying to pick a set list
and finding out who he's gotta leave on the bench and stuff
and you've gotta upset a few of the songs, innit!
- Have you sorted through it? - We've sorted it.
We'll get the rest of them, give 'em a run-out tomorrow night!
# This is the one
# This is the one she's waiting for
# This is the one... #
I'll just casually leave the hand there, you see.
He really doesn't pan up for ages.
- It'll just go to black. - I can do whatever you want!
No, I don't want it building up. I just want it censoring.
No, he wants it building up, trust me. Help him out here, Shane!
# ...This is the one
# Oh, this is the one
# This is the one This is the one I've waited for
# This is the one, this is the one... #
Ah, bonjour, monsieur. Bonjour.
# ...This is the one I've waited for This is the one
# I've waited for
# This is the one This is the one I've waited for
# This is the one
# Oh, this is the one
# This is the one This is the one I've waited for... #
What the hell are you doing? I hope your red light's on,
- for God's sake. - Get a picture of the king with us.
Can we have a revolution, please, like you lot did? We need one man, yeah.
That's on video, mate. Fuck me! What a night.
- Smashing, wasn't it? - Bananas.
We'll probably split up now tomorrow, knowing us!
# ...This is the one I've waited for
# This is the one
# I've waited for
# This is the one This is the one I've waited for
# This is the one... #
I spent the whole day on the street yesterday.
I must have done about 15 mile.
I tried to just smoke a bat for every mile that I walked.
Spoken like a true Rasta, that, wasn't it?
# ...This is the one... #
SHANE: Have you not played this place before?
- Was it not built or something? - MANI: it's a newie, I think, innit?
No, we just weren't big enough.
- We weren't big enough to play before. - Never been big enough to play here!
# This is the one This is the one
# This is the one
# This is the one I've waited for. #
Thank you, yeah. Let's have a big hand for Mani.
Let's have a big hand for the beat-master, Reni.
Let John Squires take you higher.
Thank you.
They've gone up a few floors now,
so you're going to have to be really loud, cos they won't hear you.
- All right?
Yeah, that's it.
I love it.
CROWD CHANTS: Olé, olé, olé, olé.
Olé, olé.
Olé, olé, olé, olé.
Olé, olé.
Olé, olé, olé, olé.
Olé, olé.
Reni, Reni, how was it tonight? How was it?
- Yeah, yeah, let's go. - All right, Steve?
Yeah.
All right, yeah, this is no joke.
The drummer's gone home. We're not kidding you.
The drummer's gone home. So, there you go.
I'm not kidding you. The drummer's gone home.
Sorry about that.
Go on, then, get all your boos out, get all your bad vibes out.
I can take it.
Get 'em all out. Come on.
Get 'em all out, the drummer's a cunt.
(# STONE ROSES: Breaking Into Heaven)
Ooh.
Er, one... One, two. Erm...
So, er, last night was Amsterdam
and, um, obviously what happened, happened
and, you know, from what I can gather,
there was quite a few monitor problems on stage
and, er, and Reni was really struggling, I think, in his earpiece
and so when he sort of come off, I think he was, er...
basically didn't want to put the thing back in his ear
cos he was getting loads of distortion
and, obviously, there was 5,000 people who knew that they'd, er...
done an encore in Barcelona and were expecting an encore, so it wasn't pretty.
Er...so I'm back at the hotel.
Er, I was meant to be going to Sweden and Denmark,
I think, and Germany till Sunday,
but we're cancelling that
and, er, obviously the last thing anyone wants at the moment
is a camera ramming in their face, cos things are, erm...
tricky and, er, the atmosphere's not very nice, obviously.
I've just seen the manager and he says Reni wants to go home home.
So, this is gonna be the end of my, er, European stuff
and just fingers crossed everything works out and they get back on for Heaton Park
but it could be my last interview, er,
but fingers crossed I never have to use it, er, as that
cos it's going to be a pretty shit end.
JOHN: I'd hate to paint the picture that we had a great time
then we made a hit record and fell apart.
It didn't happen that way.
The making of the second album finished the band off, in a way.
It was never the same after that.
MANI: Basically, it was all down to that having to take all that time off
and a lot of things happened that were out of our control -
ie the court stuff and getting injuncted
and not being able to be together and record.
And, you know, we give it our best shot after that
and it wasn't... it just never was the same.
Once you've lost that momentum, it's hard to regenerate it.
JOHN: I mean, in the process of extricating ourselves
from the Silvertone deal
we found out that a lot of money had gone missing
and the finger pointed at the management.
So, we tried to get rid of the manager as well.
And then whilst making the second album, we were kind of lost at sea.
We didn't have a proper business manager, any sort of management, really.
There's four little chiefs with a two million dollar advance.
There was no-one to give us that kick up the arse that we needed at that time.
We always said, you know, as long as we're enjoying it, we'll carry on,
but I think we rapidly began to not enjoy it.
It's when it became more about the business and less about the music.
Because we were like one of the toughest little gangs in town.
We'd hang about and we lived it. We used to work for eight hours a day
and we were round each other's houses at night.
And as soon as other dynamics come in, like having children and stuff like that,
you're like planets that are moving slowly away from each other, you know.
The dark matter that holds you together is becoming fragmented and...
and you're off.
(# GRAVENHURST: Song From Under The Arches)
JOHN: Doug Goldstein got involved Guns N' Roses manager,
and the band were a little bit unsure about whether to go for that or not.
I know Ian and Reni had a row about it.
I know he came to me and Mani
and said that Reni had quit the night after this big row.
And he said that he wouldn't work with him again anyway.
This was a couple of weeks before the tour was due to start.
And I could see in Ian's eyes that there was no turning back from that point.
And I think that was really the last nail in the coffin for the band.
IAN: But leading up to that, there was a big build-up leading up to that.
You, know Reni was going AWOL.
He wasn't turning up. He came to me one time during the recording,
come in and said, "You three should get yourself another drummer."
You know, he said, "I don't wanna be any more famous than I am.
"I want you three to go and smash it
"and have the satisfaction of watching you smash it."
And that was about eight months before he left. So, it was in his mind.
JOHN: I just... I didn't see any future in it,
other than a kind of...treadmill,
trading on the past.
It didn't fire me with any sort of creative enthusiasm.
I knew it would be final...
...because our relationship was related to music.
So, to take that out of the equation by leaving the band...
...yeah, I knew it would be...
...a point of no return.
MAN'S VOICE: Camera and recorder within range and limits
can photograph and record without selection or distortion
from a point of zero interference.
The camera achieves a nirvana of uncritical acceptance.
It rejects nothing, it clings to nothing.
It fears nothing, it desires nothing.
It hates nothing, it loves nothing.
Camera and recorder are crude models of your own built-in equipment.
You have all the screens you can fill and all the projectors you need.
So, turn the zero camera on yourself.
Action, camera,
right in the middle of the middle screen.
(# STONE ROSES: Fools Gold)
# The gold road's sure a long road
# Winds on through the hills for 15 days
# The pack on my back is aching
# The strap seems to cut me like a knife
# The gold road's sure a long road
# Winds on through the hills for 15 days
# The pack on my back is aching
# The strap seems to cut me like a knife
# I'm no clown, I won't back down
# I don't need you to tell me what's going down
# Down, down, down, down Da-down, down, down
# Down
# Down, down Down, down, down, down
# I'm standing alone I'm watching you all
# I'm seeing you sinking
# I'm standing alone
# You're weighing the gold
# I'm watching you sinking
# Fool's gold
# These boots were made for walking
# The Marquis de Sade don't need no boots like these
# Gold's just around the corner
# Breakdown's coming up round the bend
# Sometimes you have to try to get along, dear
# I know the truth And I know what you're thinking
# Down, down, down, down Da-down, down, down
# I'm standing alone I'm watching you all
# I'm seeing you sinking
# I'm standing alone You're weighing the gold
# I'm watching you sinking
# Fool's gold
# I'm standing alone I'm watching you all
# I'm seeing you sinking
# I'm standing alone You're weighing the gold
# I'm watching you sinking
# Fool's gold
# Fool's gold. #
(# STONE ROSES: Made Of Stone)
# Your knuckles whiten on the wheel
# The last thing that your hands will feel
# Your final flight can't be delayed
# No earth, just sky It's so surreal
# Your pink, fat lips let go a scream
# You fry and melt, I love the scene
# Sometimes I...
# Fantasise
# When the streets are cold and lonely
# And the cars, they burn below me
# Don't these times
# Fill your eyes?
# When the streets are cold and lonely
# And the cars, they burn below me
# Are you all alone?
# Is anybody home?
# I'm standing warm... #
Konnichiwa! Come on in.
Look - saves you doing it yourself.
Front room, where there's a little portable TV here, look.
Nice view, though.
I forgot to mention the pool.
Private pool, of course.
Only the occupants of the room can use it, and that's me.
So, all that remains to say is...
# ...Sometimes I...
# Fantasise
# When the streets are cold and lonely
# And the cars, they burn below me
# Don't these times
# Fill your eyes?
# When the streets are cold and lonely
# And the cars, they burn below me
# Are you all alone?
# Is anybody home?
# Sometimes I...
# Fantasise
# When the streets are cold and lonely
# And the cars, they burn below me
# Don't these times
# Fill your eyes?
# When the streets are cold and lonely
# And the cars, they burn below me
# Are you all alone?
# Are you made of stone? #