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(Vocal/instrumental group, 1989–present) Emerging out of the ‘Madchester’ scene, The Charlatans’ initial organ-led groove music was soon embraced by the charts. Outgrowing this sound, Tim Burgess (vocals), Jon Baker (guitar), Martin Blunt (bass), John Brookes (drums) and Rob Collins (keyboards) matured into a rock band with a devoted fanbase. Collins’ death in 1996 was a massive blow but subsequent albums like Tellin’ Stories (1997) and Up At The Lake (2004) confirmed ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley
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(Vocal/instrumental group, 1980–93, 1999, 2004–10, 2012–present) Led by vocalist Shaun Ryder, the band were at the forefront of the ‘Madchester’ scene. They appropriated licks from psychedelia, soul and hip hop to come up with a danceable brand of rock that reached its apotheosis on 1990’s Pills ‘n’ Thrills And Bellyaches, which included UK Top 5s ‘Step On’ and ‘Kinky Afro’. The chaotic, drug-addled nature of the band meant the hits diminished, ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley
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(Vocal/instrumental group, 1983–96, 2011–present) This Manchester band – Ian Brown (vocals), John Squire (guitar), Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield (bass) and Alan ‘Reni’ Wren (drums) – announced their jangling guitar pop with second single ‘Sally Cinnamon’. An eponymous debut album (1989) fused the vibe of acid house on to hook-laden melodic hypnotic pop songs. The funk groove of ‘Fool’s Gold’ and anthemic ‘One Love’ remain untouchable singles. Second Coming (1994) fell short of ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley
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This was a decade when the impact of dance culture on rock and vice versa sometimes led to exciting results: it opened with ‘Thriller’ and closed with the Madchester scene of Happy Mondays. Punk had subsided to become the less threatening new wave movement, which, along with the new romantics, dominated the early days of the decade. As with the 1960s, producers emerged with their own distinctive sound – none more ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley
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Occasionally, a town or city is so integral to a style of music that the music takes its name from the place. In the early 1960s, Liverpool gave rise to the Mersey sound and Merseybeat; in the late-1980s and early 1990s, England’s Manchester spawned so–called Madchester. As much a clubbing scene and youth sub-culture as a style of music, Madchester was also known as ‘Baggy’ due to the baggy clothes worn ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer
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West-coast city Seattle was the unanticipated epicentre of 1990s music as grunge, the biggest ‘back to basics’ movement since punk, shook traditional American rock – Nirvana was to enjoy iconic status for a spell until Kurt Cobain’s death. In the UK, the dance-rock of The Stone Roses, a holdover from the late 1980s, put Manchester briefly in the picture, but it was American bands like Metallica, the Red Hot Chili ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, general editor Michael Heatley
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