Ian Brown: The Stone Roses will never reunite

In a rare moment of humility, the simian Mancunian admits his band were not the best of all time – no, that would be the Sex Pistols 'No chance' ... Ian Brown clears up any Stone Roses reunion rumours. Photograph: Martin Godwin The Stone Roses will never tour again, Ian Brown has said. But what does it really matter, given that they're far from the finest band of the past 30 years. "The Sex Pistols are the best band that's ever been," Brown told Reuters in a recent interview. "I think they've got the best set of songs any band has had, any time." Brown made his comments at the screening of a new Sex Pistols film, where he had been invited by John Lyndon aka Johnny Rotten. "They showed us as kids ... that you didn't have to be some middle-class virtuoso musician. It was all about expressing yourself and it didn't matter where... [read full story]