The North Will Rise Again by John Robb

The North Will Rise Again by John Robb

‘ An extraordinary history… The range of voices breathing new life into past events is vast’ **** Mojo ‘ The Morrissey and Marr recollections are particularly revealing’ The Word The Buzzcocks. Joy Division. The Fall. The Smiths. The Stone Roses. The Happy Mondays. Oasis. Manchester has proved to be an endlessly rich seam of pop-music talent over the last 30 years. Highly opinionated and usually controversial, stars such as Mark E. Smith, Morrissey, Ian Brown and the Gallagher brothers have always had plenty to say for themselves. Here, in John Robb’ s new compilation, Manchester’ s gobbiest musicians tell the story of the city’ s thriving music scene in their own words. When the Buzzcocks put on the Sex Pistols at Lester Free Hall in 1976, they kickstarted a musical revolution and a fervent punk scene exploded. In 1979 the legendary Tony Wilson founded Factory Records, the home of Joy Division/New Order and later the Happy Mondays. The Hacienda, the Factory nightclub, became notorious in the late 1980s as a centre of the influential Madchester scene, led by the Mondays and the Stone Roses, with a unique style and sound of its own. Then, from the ashes of Madchester rose ü ber-lads Oasis, the kings of Britpop and the biggest UK band of the 1990s. John Robb is a leading music journalist and the author of the bestselling biography of the Stone Roses. His other books include Punk: An Oral History, The Charlatans … We Are Rock and The Nineties: What the F**k Was That All About? He lives in Manchester.

'John Robb spent a year shoving a recorder under the nose of seemingly everybody on the Manchester music sceneFrom these interviews he has pieced together an extraordinary history.' ****

'Manchester's musical heritage eulogised in its players own words.' ****

'John Robb spent a year shoving a recorder under the nose of seemingly everybody on the Manchester music scene. From these interviews he has pieced together an extraordinary history.' ****

'Manchester's musical heritage eulogised in its players own words.' ****

John Robb is a leading music journalist and the author of a bestselling biography of the Stone Roses. His other books include Punk: An Oral History and The Charlatans…We Are Rock. He lives in Manchester.

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ISBN 13	9781845135348
ISBN 10	1845135342
Title	The North Will Rise Again
Author	John Robb
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Quarto Publishing PLC
Year published	2010-04-25
Number of pages	400
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