• Music
  • 01 Apr 02
Remember this classic album: The Stone Roses' The Stone Roses
Remember this classic album: The Stone Roses' The Stone Roses
The Hot Press Newsdesk
The Hot Press Newsdesk

The 1990s started here: with The Stone Roses' classic debut

Just in time to arrive hand in hand with our Manchester Reunited cover, we present this fortnight's classic album - one of the Manc scene's touchstones and one of pop music's most brightly shining moments - the Stone Roses' self-titled 1989 debut.

Click here to read a retrospective review in full, taken from the Hot Press series "21 For The 21st: Albums Of The Millennium" - and stay tuned for more classic album reviews in future. And when you're done, take a look at the original 1989 Hot Press review, here.

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