Stones Roses reunion: three baggy playlists

Pop historian Jon Savage listens to the best of the Stone Roses and their contemporaries – from Baby Ford to the Sabres of Paradise – and creates the perfect set of baggy playlistsQuite apart from the quality of their music, the Stone Roses had a huge impact in 1989 because they embodied the moment. Much club and rock culture in the mid to late 80s was inward-looking (C86) or tight-arsed (Rare Groove). Photogenic, savvy and coming off a sequence of great singles that climaxed with Fo...

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