The Latest Breaking News from the Happy Mondays

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Shaun Ryder had the world at his feet. His band, The Happy Mondays, had been key players in the UK “Madchester scene” and had scored a platinum selling album with 1990’s Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches. Bands everywhere had tried to imitate the…

The benders, the bust-ups, the legendary gigs... Oasis were made in Manchester but London was where all their dreams came true

The Madchester crew are the reason there is a giant fence around Worthy Farm these days

Happy Mondays were one of the architects of the Manchester scene that gave birth to Oasis. Armed with basic gear, most of which he can’t remember, their genre-splicing guitarist is finally proud of the influential music he helped create

The new band is made up of former members of the Happy Mondays, Oasis, and Ride

With contested rumours of Soccer AM's demise, FourFourTwo revisits an age when it was the uncontested king of football television – and ask former host Helen Chamberlain why people loved it so much