Salford<\/a>, Paddy issued a tribute to the “Manchester legend”, describing his death as a “sad loss for the city”.<\/p>\nPaddy said: “Following the sad news of the passing of Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield we’re playing tribute to The Stone Roses and Primal Scream’s legendary bassist.”<\/p>\n
He added: “I’ve got to say, I’ve met Mani numerous times over the years. He’s a complete Manchester legend and he always had time for me. Such a sad loss for the city.”<\/p>\n
Before playing The Stone Roses’ ‘Waterfall’, he said: “This one’s for you, pal.”<\/p>\n
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Stone Roses star Mani died at the age of 63(Image: PA)<\/p>\n
From Crumpsall in Manchester, Mani rose to fame after joining The Stone Roses in the 1980s. Playing on both of the band’s albums, Mounfield was in the Stone Roses until they disbanded in 1996, later joining Primal Scream. In 2011, he announced that he had left Primal Scream to reform the Stone Roses.<\/p>\n
Following the news of his death tributes have been paid from across the world of music, including from Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown. He simply wrote: “REST IN PEACE MANi X.”<\/p>\n
A post shared by Stone Roses read: “RIP our wonderful brother Mani. The greatest bass player and friend we could ever have wished for.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist died this week aged 63Paddy McGuinness’ ‘Morning Plotters!’ broadcasts live from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[192,748,393,4884,2465,81057,1455,1290,70573,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-589020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-mani","14":"tag-paddy-mcguinness","15":"tag-salford","16":"tag-stone-roses","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115599799092717116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Paddy McGuinness’ ‘Morning Plotters!’ broadcasts live from Salford on Radio 2(Image: bbcradio2\/TikTok)<\/p>\n![\"Stone](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763912844_957_0_AMR_MEN_090623_SRMJPG.jpg\")
Stone Roses star Mani with wife Imelda Mounfield(Image: Paul Husband)<\/p>\n