Band: The Seahorses
Album: Do It Yourself
Year: 1997
Label: Geffen Records
Status: Disbanded 1999
John Squire had played guitar in The Stone Roses (we saw how that ended earlier, on page 87). He isn’t just a musician though, he’s also an artist, and it was his work that adorned the covers of most Stone Roses singles and both their albums (the dolphin cover for Fools Gold and the lemons cover for their first album being the most famous). It’s no surprise that a talented creator wouldn’t give up. He formed The Seahorses. Do It Yourself was their debut album, and was a platinum hit, launching them into space just like in Blinded By The Sun’s video.Album: Do It Yourself
Year: 1997
Label: Geffen Records
Status: Disbanded 1999
At the end of Blinded By The Sun’s video the space capsule breaks up, spewing the band members into space, drifting away from each other. It turned out that this was The Seahorses’ only album before the band split.
Extract from page 331 of 2000 Tunes: A History of Manchester Music by M. H. Rees; used with permission. Read the whole series (25 extracts) here; or my summary post. Readers might be interested in my forthcoming novel about a man obsessed with Manchester music - confusingly, it is also called 2000 Tunes!
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