The Stone Roses: Stone Free
Phil Sutcliffe, Q, August 1991
After nine months of strenuous legal wrangling, The Stone Roses have extricated themselves from an "oppressive", "one-sided and unfair" contract. Report by Phil Sutcliffe.
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