Starting in 1976 and going through the late 80s, punk rock inspired a special flavor of modern rock in Manchester, UK.
Manchester (a.k.a., MADchester) bands were driven by a DIY attitude and fueled by angst and (some of them) not so few foreign substances.
Their fans loved them. Nevertheless, fan support and good-natured managers don't pay the electric bill (nor support the drug habit), so many of these bands were short-lived shooting stars. This makes them all the more celebrated.
Great bands that changed the world in Manchester
not all necessarily FROM Manchester
- Buzzcocks
- Joy Division (to become New Order)
- Stone Roses
- Happy Mondays
- The Smiths
- James
- Charlatans
- Oasis
- The Fall
- The Bee Gees (transplanted to Australia)
Manchester, so much to answer for
- Control - the movie - released Oct. 2007
- The new movie from Anton Corbijn about Ian Curtis of Joy Division - on general release 05 October 07 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A27308252
- BBC-Manchester Bands A-Z
- Includes links to pages for Manchester bands, from all eras, both signed and unsigned. Some links go to band sites, some to sites within the BBC and some to a section, where lesser known bands have their demos reviewed.
- Virtual Encyclopedia of Greater Manchester
- From Papillon Graphics - music and more ...
- Manchester Online
- From the where are they now file... according to Mancunians themselves...
Band Sites
for bands and artists
- New Order's official website
- for real!
- Joy Division Central
- The lead singer is dead, the band has moved on, but the fans hang on.. and on... actually a movie may be in the works about Ian Curtis, the hallowed lead singer. Stay tuned.
- Morrissey solo
- The Smiths have also broken up, but Morrissey's fan base remains strong.
- Stone Roses
- The Stone Roses were another short-lived band, but we can keep hoping...
- New Order Online
- A New Order / Joy Division website
Read about it
Music of Manchester on Wikipedia
==The pop groups of the 1960s and early 1970s==
Manchester had an impressive music scene before 1976, with groups like The Hollies, The Bee Gees, Herman's Hermits, Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders, Freddie and the Dreamers in the sixties and Barclay James Harvest and 10cc in the early to mid seventies, and with Top of the Pops being recorded by the BBC in the city. In 1965 Herman's Hermits outsold the Beatles , selling over 10 million records in seven months. Manchester bands Freddie and The Dreamers, Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders and Herman's Hermits topped the American Billboard charts consecutively between the middle of April 1965 and the end of May, with one week in 1965 where the three bands were numbers 1, 2 and 3 in the US Billb...
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