Stone Roses' Second Coming
Channelling artistic inspiration is, for many great musicians, not something that can be switched on and off. However waiting five and a half years to record the follow-up to your groundbreaking, culturally significant debut album is akin to commercial suicide - especially when said album dismantles the perfect pop formula you had cultivated in favour of extended guitar breaks and 'funky' rhythms. The Second Coming got a somewhat inevitable 'mixed reception' and before long the once indestructible Stone Roses were disintegrating. Key members left the band, concert dates were cancelled, with events coming to a head as fans booed and threw objects onstage during a disastrous performance at the Reading Festival in 1996. The Stone Roses split two months later.
Channelling artistic inspiration is, for many great musicians, not something that can be switched on and off. However waiting five and a half years to record the follow-up to your groundbreaking, culturally significant debut album is akin to commercial suicide - especially when said album dismantles the perfect pop formula you had cultivated in favour of extended guitar breaks and 'funky' rhythms. The Second Coming got a somewhat inevitable 'mixed reception' and before long the once indestructible Stone Roses were disintegrating. Key members left the band, concert dates were cancelled, with events coming to a head as fans booed and threw objects onstage during a disastrous performance at the Reading Festival in 1996. The Stone Roses split two months later.
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