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A second album, Second Coming, arrived a whole five years later as the Roses' impetus was lost in a sea of litigation and apparent sloth. Somehow, though, it all went horribly wrong. Their debut album, also called the Stone Roses - recently voted the greatest album of all time in a BBC poll - had rescued Britrock from its stadium-rock doldrums and paved the way for virtually every subsequent development in British rock, notably Oasis. Thirteen years ago, they were the creative force behind the Stone Roses, who were in an unassailable position at the top of British rock. The 1 John Squire and Ian Brown should have been the Lennon and McCartney of the 1990s.
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We meet at a quiet pub in Manchester. As Brown's solo stardom has progressed, his former partner has spent years in retreat in rural Cheshire, since the collapse of his successful but short-lived post-Roses band, the Seahorses.Now he is finally breaking his silence with a solo album, Time Changes Everything, which contains several searingly honest songs about the Roses, and with his first interview in five years. Squire has never responded. Shop Gear Categories Brands Shops Deals and. All Filters Filter & Sort.
"It was spewed out," he says. But now, singing his own lyrics for the first time, he wishes to be "honest." On 15 Days, he regretfully but affectionately traces the career of the band who "aimed for the Pistols and the Byrds, and the clouds that flew above them", with a sly pop at Brown ("That crown of thorns suits ya, son"). I shaved it off and I keep it in a box").The real Squire is hardly known at all. "Have you?"), but bats off bizarre rumours that he abandoned music for mountain-biking ("I was well into it but haven't ridden for a year") and that he grew an enormous beard ("True. He is alert and thoughtful, occasionally responding to a question with a question ("Have you had therapy?". When he talks, it is with quiet, carefully measured sentences - if this man takes coke, he should have a strong word with his dealer.
When Squire spoke, Brown would finish his sentences, but mostly Squire poured things out through his guitar. Brown and Squire met in a Manchester sandpit aged four, with the gregarious, mouthy Brown, the prototype Liam Gallagher, finding the key to drawing the artistic but quietly strong-willed Squire out of his shell. Squire explains that it's partly about his ex, partly about the happy times with the Roses, and partly about Brown.They were very close. And I know that, deep down, you miss me too"). He says: "I just thought, 'Fuck it! I'm not going looking for another singer.' It just couldn't be the same as it was with Ian." More eyebrows will be raised by a beautiful song called I Miss You (". I've maybe been writing it subliminally for the last seven years."It's strange to hear Squire singing - in a distinctive voice not unlike Bob Dylan's.
"I dumped him, didn't I?" Squire has never been in any great rush to hit back: "I didn't want to hate him". So when Brown began to character-assassinate Squire, the guitarist understood the reasons. I Am the Resurrection drew life in the backroom Fool's Gold in the spare bedroom She Bangs the Drum in the lounge.
But the real breakdown of the relationship seems entwined in this business about cocaine. He rebelled with guitars, further alienating Brown. He spent a year trying to operate an S1000 sampler and felt he was beating his head against a brick wall.
As Squire tells it, the cocaine controversy arose from a 1995 interview he gave to the LA Times. However, he admits the coke made him paranoid. "The only thing I did to excess were guitar solos," he says, drily. Squire insists there was nothing like the excess Brown has claimed. According to Squire, he was forced into taking responsibility for writing the group's songs, when he could have "really used some help".
For example, Brown reckons drummer Reni left because of Squire. Thus, Squire suggests, he has acquired the Judas role because he "confessed." Nothing about this is entirely black and white. I thought the guy deserved something more."After initially extolling ecstasy, Brown's views on narcotics now are almost Old Testament: marijuana (natural, good), coke (evil). "We'd done other interviews and the same excuses about the court cases and having children were getting recycled.
That's why, despite offers of millions, a greatest hits set in the autumn (selected by all four members, although not together) and persistent internet rumours, there will be no revival tour. "We were never afraid to say no," he says. The Roses stood for something that has been lost among today's pop puppets - preserving dignity, which may explain band members' conflicting accounts. He's immensely proud of what the Roses achieved - "No one loved or worked harder for that band than me". It was bizarre, because everyone assumed we were the best of friends, which puts a tremendous amount of pressure on you." Squire left the band. "I don't want to stick the knife in, all I can say is that he became a complete stranger.
Squire's revered, plangent guitar style is unmistakable.Now, the most gifted guitarist of his generation is also a singer. Time Changes Everything was recorded with musicians Andy Treacey, Jonathan White and John Ellis, and Second Coming co-producer Simon Dawson. A subsequent experience with the Verve's Simon Jones and unknown musicians similarly ended with both sides offering different explanations. When the Seahorses imploded, Squire and singer Chris Helme offered conflicting accounts over who left first.
He insists he's mostly happy yet confesses to occasional bouts of terrible melancholy, which arrive unannounced. He has few mates, preferring the company of his current partner, Sophia, two children from different couplings, a hound and local goats. Brown lives in London Squire's remote farmhouse - where he writes in his garage - is adult life's equivalent of his childhood bubble. Brown digs rap, Squire classic rock. Holding a note, remembering the words, doing it over and over and not letting your mind wander, all day." You can't help but wonder if this comment carries a new-found sympathy with Brown.Their paths have diverged. Now he's bubbling about the challenge of his new role, admitting to "starting to understand the pressures on a vocalist.
Time Changes Everything is released on North Country on September 16. Would Squire be interested in a meeting, or reconciliation? He falls silent for an age, and then whispers: "It's long overdue." Asked what he thinks of Brown's music, Squire quips: "He needs a guitarist!" Lennon and McCartney ended up bitching and communicating through songs, and were never fully reconciled. Those and their great adventures - acid trips in Chorlton and making snowslides in the road, where "if you had the right shoes you could slide for 20 yards".Occasionally, Squire glimpses Brown on TV or hears a song. Squire misses Brown's humour most, particularly the wicked impersonations he would do of people they both knew.
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