SIMON SPENCE is a music journalist with first-hand experience of the 'Madchester' scene. He joined the NME in 1989, when the Happy Mondays were at the height of their powers, and has written for, amongst others, The Face, Dazed & Confused, I-D and the Independent. His most recent book is the acclaimed The Stone Roses: War and Peace (Viking, 2012; St Martin's Press, 2013). Prior to that he had ghosted Rollings Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham's memoirs, Stoned and 2Stoned (both Vintage, 2001 and 2003).