According to the New Musical Express, The Stone Roses ' relationship with their future producer John Leckie was settled when they all agreed that " Forever Changes " was the " best record ever ".

* 1962 – John Squire, British guitarist ( The Stone Roses )

* 1962 – Gary Mounfield, English bassist ( The Stone Roses, Primal Scream )

Cameos by Wilson himself, along with Mark E. Smith of The Fall and former members of The Stone Roses and Inspiral Carpets, lent a degree of legitimacy to the proceedings.

He also worked on a new band project called Freebass with bass players Mani ( The Stone Roses ) and Andy Rourke ( ex-The Smiths ).

The Stone Roses are an English alternative rock band formed in Manchester in 1983.

The band released their debut album, The Stone Roses, in 1989.

At this time the Stone Roses decided to capitalise on their success by signing to a major label ; then, their current record label Silvertone would not let them out of their contract, which led to a long legal battle that culminated with the band signing with Geffen Records in 1991, and then releasing their second album Second Coming in 1994.

Following much intensified media speculation, The Stone Roses called a press conference on 18 October 2011 to announce that the band had reunited and would perform a reunion tour of the world in 2012, including three homecoming shows in Manchester.

In June 2012, Chris Coghill, the writer of the new film which is set during the Stone Roses 1990 Spike Island show, revealed that the band “ have at least three or four new tracks recorded .”

After rehearsing for some time without a band name, Squire came up with ' The Stone Roses '.

John thought up the name ' Stone Roses ' - something with a contrast, two words that went against each other ".

They played their first gig as the Stone Roses on 23 October 1984, supporting Pete Townshend at an anti-heroin concert at the Moonlight Club in London, Brown having sent the demo with an accompanying letter stating " I'm surrounded by skagheads, I wanna smash ' em.

The Roses embarked on a tour of Sweden in April, with their first gig in Manchester following on their return, at International 1, a venue run by future Stone Roses managers Matthew Cummings and Gareth Evans.

The band attempted to usurp James by putting up posters around town listing The Stone Roses as headliners, and delaying their start time to get the headline time themselves and limit the time that James could play for.

In 1988 and early 1989 The Stone Roses recorded their debut album at Battery Studios and Konk Studios in London and Rockfield Studios in Wales, produced by Leckie.

The Stone Roses was released in April / May 1989, initially to mostly positive reviews, and entered the UK Albums Chart at number 32 in mid-May, the highest position it would reach that year.

The Stone Roses is now considered one of the great British albums, although the band themselves were unhappy with the sound on the album, Squire describing it as " twee " and not " fat or hard enough ".

The Stone Roses ' outdoor concert at Spike Island in Widnes on 27 May 1990 was attended by some 27, 000 people.

The Stone Roses subsequently signed with Geffen Records ( garnering a million-pound advance for their next record ) and began work on their second album.

Following the court case The Stone Roses separated themselves from Manchester's club culture and spent much of 1992 and 1993 travelling in Europe before starting work on their second album in mid-1993.

Afterwards The Stone Roses assumed production duties with engineer Simon Dawson at Rockfield Studios in Wales, where they spent 347 ten-hour days working on the album.

The Stone Roses finally released the album, Second Coming, on 5 December 1994.

Throughout her career, Love's wild stage antics and subversive feminist attitude have polarized audiences and critics, with Rolling Stone once calling her " the most controversial woman in the history of rock.

Once labelled by Rolling Stone as " the most controversial woman in the history of rock ", Love's sometimes outrageous behavior has given her a lasting place in pop culture, as well as a polarizing reputation in the media.

Bomp was not alone ; an August 1970 issue of Rolling Stone included an article about the explosion of rock fanzines.

Groucho developed friendships with rock star Alice Cooper — the two were photographed together for Rolling Stone magazine — and television host Dick Cavett, becoming a frequent guest on Cavett's late-night talk show.

Different from the Rolling Stone list, which listed guitarists in descending order, Guitar World divided guitarists by music genre — such as " Lords of Hard Rock " for hard rock artists or " Jazzmen " for jazz players.

Another version of " O Canada " in rock format was recorded by Lee and Lifeson on the accompanying soundtrack CD for the Trey Parker and Matt Stone film South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut released in 1999.

Image: Bhimbetka. JPG | Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India

Recognition of the band's importance built over the years, and they are now regularly represented in many assessments of all-time great rock music, such as the Rolling Stone lists of the 50 Greatest Artists of All Time and 25 Greatest Live Albums of All Time, VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock, and Mojo's 100 Greatest Albums.

That tour earned them Rolling Stone magazine's ' red suspenders ' award for best live rock band.

Rolling Stone magazine described them as " the heaviest band of all time ", " the biggest band of the ' 70s " and " unquestionably one of the most enduring bands in rock history ".

Jim Miller, editor of Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll, argues that " On one level, Led Zeppelin represents the final flowering of the sixties ' psychedelic ethic, which casts rock as passive sensory involvement ".

European rock drawings and cave paintings reveal that moose have been hunted since the Stone Age.

In July 2008, Rolling Stone commented that " Rush fans are the Trekkies / trekkers of rock ".

In further response to this issue, rock critic Jim DeRogatis, a former Rolling Stone editor, published a thorough critique of the magazine's lists in a book called Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics ( ISBN 1-56980-276-9 ), which featured differing opinions from many younger critics.

* Almost Famous portrayed a fictional 15-year-old aspiring rock journalist writing for Rolling Stone.

* Foundation Stone, the rock inside Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock

The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll states that the music Orbison made in Nashville " brought a new splendor to rock ", and compared the melodramatic effects of the orchestral accompaniment to the music production of Phil Spector.

In fact, the Maxinquaye album review by the Rolling Stone magazine read, " Tricky devoured everything from American hip-hop and soul to reggae and the more melancholic strains of 80s British rock.

A natural column of rock on the island's coast resembles a human figure and is known as " the Stone Sentry " or " Pope's Rock.

* Freddie Mercury ( born Farrokh Bulsara ) of the rock band Queen was born in Stone Town, Zanzibar.

* December 8 – Corey Taylor, American rock vocalist ( Slipknot, Stone Sour )

The Stone Roses's influences included garage rock, Northern soul, punk rock, and artists such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, Johnny Marr, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Sonic Youth, Sex Pistols and The Clash.