Happy Mondays

The group, which also includes drummer Zak Starkey, have made an album and are playing Glastonbury.

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‘The Haçienda – The Club That Shook Britain‘ features interviews with members of New Order, Happy Mondays, Oasis and more.

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These will be Happy Mondays‘ first US shows since 2009, and Paul Oakenfold, who co-produced the album, with be on hand to DJ the LA show.

“This special release of ’Tart Tart’ showcases the unique musical talent of our brother Paul Ryder who passed from this world,” write Happy Mondays. “We will all miss you Horse…he brought the funk and the rock n roll to Happy Mondays.“

Read tributes from members of The Stone Roses, The Charlatans, Ride, Sleaford Mods, and more.

Aitch says his new album is ”100,000 per cent a proper Manchester album” and new single ”1989” is indeed very Manchester, as it samples The Stone Roses and opens with an intro by Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder…

Tony Wilson, the cofounder of iconic Manchester label Factory Records (Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays), died in 2007 after a battle with cancer. He left a final request: that writer Paul Morley, a legend in is own right, write Wilson’s biography…

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