LET’S START BY SAYING that you know more about Manchester than you think you do—that the northern England city of red-brick Victorian buildings, old universities, and public squares already lives in your pop-culture subconscious, the backdrop for era-defining events that outshone the city itself.
This is where a heckler famously shouted “Judas” as Bob Dylan played the electric guitar, where punk band the Sex Pistols shook the walls outside of London for the
