The Stone Roses News: The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (Collector's Edition)

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The Stone Roses’ frontman Ian Brown once quipped that the only thing Manchester lacked was a beach. Obviously he’ll not be going apeshit to get one of these lush box sets like the rest of us, then. Twenty years down the line and the dust has robustly settled on the sleeve of this eponymous debut, today seen as the cultural touchstone for a generation and an album that genuinely changed lives.

This Collector’s Edition could equally be titled the ‘Obsessive Fan Edition’, such is its comprehensive documenting of the Roses’ first flowering. It presents a remastered version of the album (by...