getting together
Taken from the anthology "The Dark Stuff" by Nick Kent, published by Penguin, 1994. "The Mancunian Candidates" is the original of an article that appeared in The Face in January 1990, based on an interview with Shaun Ryder of the Happy Mondays and Ian Brown of the Stone Roses.
Talk turns to the subject of another shared experience, producer Martin Hannett, the troubled Phil Spector of the North. 'We went in with him in 1985 and he produced the first version of "I Want To Be Adored",' Brown is telling Ryder, 'and a bunch of other stuff. Riffs that weren't songs. It was a disaster. 'Ee were only half-there.'
Shaun Ryder counters: ''E's a fookin' mate to the Mondays, Martin. He's great when 'e's with us, man. Mind, 'e likes workin' with us 'cos we give 'im a lot of E durin' the sessions, right! E sorts 'im right out! During the Hallelujah sessions we were givin' him two a day and this were when they were twenty-five quid a go, right. But it were worth it 'cos he kept saying, "I can't feel anything but I'm in a fookin' great frame of mind." Plus it stops 'im gettin' too bladdered.'
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