Shaun: I want a tribute concert for Mani

Mondays star on his Roses pal

- BY SHELLEY SPADONI

HAPPY Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder says he wants to be involved in a benefit gig to pay tribute to Stone Roses bass legend Gary "Mani" Mounfield.

Mani, who died on November 20 aged 63, left behind 12-year-old twins Gene and George, who had already lost their mum, Mani’s wife Imelda, in 2023 to bowel cancer.

Shaun tells us: “I’d definitely be up for a concert, or a benefit. Something for those twins, Gene and George. And of course, in Mani’s memory.

“He was my mate. I've been friends with Mani since the 1980s. He was a funny, beautiful bloke. Nobody had a bad word to say about him.

“It didn’t come as a huge shock to me though as he’d been poorly for quite a while. It was more of a shock when his wife Imelda went, really.

“It’s the boys... I keep thinking about his two twins. They've lost their mum and now their dad. It's terrible.”

Mani follows a sad lineage when it comes to bass players, says Shaun, referencing the death of his own brother Paul Ryder in 2022, aged 58.