Saturday, 25 May 2013, 11:27 pm

  Let's be honest here. The Stone Roses are doing it for the money. Normally this would be regarded as a heinous crime against the sacred history of modern pop. Old men coming together to collect the grade of their nostalgia bitten followers and piss on their legacy for one last pay day. But the Roses, cheeky 80s, baggy Manc vagabonds that they were and remain, get away with it. 'Why?', I here you ask. Well, exploring the annals of modern popular music reveals the answer and distances Ian Brown, John Squire, Gary Mounfield and Alan Wren from the rest of the sad, withering ...