Fusing the acid house hedonism that had come to define the late ‘80s with the jangly guitar sound characterised by Johnny Marr in The Smiths, the Roses were on the brink of becoming Britain’s biggest band.
While legal wrangles, interband disputes and a torturous five-year gestation period for follow-up album Second Coming meant the Roses would never fulfil their potential, they were about to unleash an erashaping record of stunning musicianship, paving the way for the Britpop revolution that would follow.
And in guitarist John Squire they had a natural successor to Marr;
