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Stone Roses - Waterfall (live on ITV's Other Side Of Midnight, January 1989)
I posted this here a few years ago, but the video is on a YouTube account that's since been made private. I found another video of that appearance - probably the best live performance by the Roses that I've seen - and an article about it, excerpted below, with the album track as well.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-stone-roses-rare-video-waterfall-tony-wilson/
With their baggy sound, the band took a morose and modernising Manchester music scene and flipped it firmly on its head. One person that hugely annoyed was arguably the Lord of that very scene, Tony Wilson.
Wilson was a well-known TV presenter and owner of Factory Records. Factory, as well as owning the Hacienda in Manchester, also helped bring the talents of Joy Division, A Certain Ratio and later New Order to the masses. The record label is famed for its support of the Manchester music scene yet Wilson took a disliking to The Stone Roses.
-snip-
A businessman to the end, Wilson was never shy about putting himself before the public. But, to his credit, he was also capable of admitting when he was wrong. That takes us to the first show of the year 1989 and after actively working against The Stone Roses for so many years, he invited them on the show to perform their new track ‘Waterfall’.
We’ll let Tony Wilson take it from here: “A Manchester group whose rock and roll stance I have seriously disliked for 4 or 5 or 6 years. Never had any time for the group, then a couple of months ago a drummer called Ringo Star (the other one) made me listen to a single which I absolutely loved. It turned out to be them. The Stone Roses. ’89 begins then, with a complete admission of error on my part. Huge apologies… The Stone Roses.”
Wilson was a well-known TV presenter and owner of Factory Records. Factory, as well as owning the Hacienda in Manchester, also helped bring the talents of Joy Division, A Certain Ratio and later New Order to the masses. The record label is famed for its support of the Manchester music scene yet Wilson took a disliking to The Stone Roses.
-snip-
A businessman to the end, Wilson was never shy about putting himself before the public. But, to his credit, he was also capable of admitting when he was wrong. That takes us to the first show of the year 1989 and after actively working against The Stone Roses for so many years, he invited them on the show to perform their new track ‘Waterfall’.
We’ll let Tony Wilson take it from here: “A Manchester group whose rock and roll stance I have seriously disliked for 4 or 5 or 6 years. Never had any time for the group, then a couple of months ago a drummer called Ringo Star (the other one) made me listen to a single which I absolutely loved. It turned out to be them. The Stone Roses. ’89 begins then, with a complete admission of error on my part. Huge apologies… The Stone Roses.”