genre ten storey love song
Ian George Brown ( born 20 February 1963 ) is an English musician . He is the lead singer of the ___MASK53___ band the Stone Roses from their formation in 1983 until they broke up in 1996 . Following the split he began a solo career , releasing six studio albums , a greatest hits compilation , a ___MASK82___ album and 17 singles . He has performed solo shows in 45 countries . He returned to singing for the Stone Roses on 19 October 2011 . On 20 October , he put out a statement to say that although he had reunited with the band , it did not spell the end of his solo endeavours . Manchester is a major city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester , England , with a population of 514 , 414 . It lies within the United Kingdom ' s second - most populous ___MASK33___ area , with a population of 2 . 55 million . Manchester is fringed by the Cheshire Plain to the south , the Pennines to the north and east and an arc of towns with which it forms a continuous conurbation . The local authority is Manchester City Council . The drum is a member of the ___MASK48___ group of musical instruments . In the Hornbostel - Sachs classification system , it is a membranophone . Drums consist of at least one membrane , called a drumhead or drum skin , that is stretched over a shell and struck , either directly with the player ' s hands , or with a drum stick , to produce sound . There is usually a " resonance head " on the underside of the drum , typically tuned to a slightly lower pitch than the top drumhead . Other techniques have been used to cause drums to make sound , such as the thumb roll . Drums are the world ' s oldest and most ubiquitous musical instruments , and the basic design has remained virtually unchanged for thousands of years . ___MASK15___ is a broad genre label popularized by the British music press in the early 1990s , referring to the music scene that developed in the Manchester area towards the late 1980s and into the early 1990s . The music that emerged from the scene mixed alternative rock , psychedelic rock and electronic dance music . Artists associated with the scene included the Happy Mondays , the Stone Roses , the Inspiral Carpets , Northside , 808 State , James and The Charlatans , amongst others . At that time , the Haçienda nightclub , co - owned by members of New Order , was a major catalyst for the distinctive musical ethos in the city that was called the Second Summer of Love . The scene is widely seen as heavily influenced by drugs , especially ecstasy ( MDMA ). The Stone Roses are an English ___MASK77___ band , formed in Manchester in 1983 . They were one of the pioneering groups of the ___MASK15___ movement that was active during the late 1980s and early 1990s . The band ' s most prominent lineup consists of vocalist Ian Brown , guitarist John Squire , bassist Mani , and drummer Reni . `` Ten Storey ___MASK38___ Song '' is a The Stone Roses single released in March 1995 . It was written by guitarist John Squire . It reached number 11 and spent three weeks in the UK Singles Chart . The B - sides `` Moses '' and `` Ride On '' were the last new songs released by the group . A music video , directed by Sophie Muller , accompanied the single but the video was shot without the drummer , Reni , who did not turn up . Only three members of the band ( Squire , Ian Brown and Mani ) appear in the video although an unidentified man wearing a mask of Reni ' s face appears several times . Ian Brown did not turn up for the first day of the video shoot , this is reflected in the video when John Squire and Mani are watching footage of Ian Brown and Reni on a TV screen and look at their watches . The song is on the Roses ' second album , Second Coming . It is the third song , fading into `` Daybreak '' . In 2009 the British writer Richard Milward named his second novel after this song .