The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses

20 years ago C&A were on top of the world; the trendy indie brigade regularly visiting for garish over-sized jumpers and jeans so wide they’d make clowns look like The Horrors. For a moment The Stone Roses were the coolest looking band on the planet, but their adoration wasn’t just based on bowl haircuts and baggy threads, in 1989 they’d draw a line under British guitar music and make one of the most important debut albums ever.

Indie would never be the same. A rhythm section with an unhealthy groove, John Squire’s jingle-jangle guitars turning him into an instant guitar god and Ian Brown seemingly giving birth to swagger, whipping crowds of the indier than thou, ravers and the average working man into a loved up hedonistic frenzy.

Alas, C&A is dead, but the spirit of the Stone Roses still lives on. This is a timeless debut which still inspires - from the torch carrying Kasabian to basin haired new-comers The Ruling Class.