You know you're getting on in years when the people from the bands you grew up with start popping off to that great gig in the sky. A few weeks ago we lost Dave Ball and now Mani's gone at just 63...I say 'just' 63...I suppose that's not a bad age all things considered and, let's face it, the dude fitted a lot more into his life than most of us.
In my humble opinion The Stone Roses' self titled debut album is one of the top 20 albums of all time. Of course it all went a bit tits up after that but I was lucky enough to see the reformed Roses play V Festival (they were supposed to play Glasto '95 but Squire broke his collar bone, so we saw some band called Pulp instead...I wonder what happened to them?).
Between the split and the resurrection Mani went on to play with Primal Scream during arguably their best and most experimental period.
It's his work with the Roses that people are quite rightly looking back on today though and here are a pair of absolute 24ct gold bangers...
I Wanna Be Adored? Mission accomplished I reckon Mani. RIP.
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