Mani from Stone Roses dead: Ambulance service issues statement as icon ‘found at home’

Rock icon Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield, bassist for both the Stone Roses and Primal Scream, died at home aged 63, emergency services confirmed. North West Ambulance Service said paramedics were called to a home in Heaton Moor on Thursday morning.

“Emergency crews attended a private address at 10.42am,” said an ambulance service spokesperson. It is understood this was Mani’s address, and no patient was taken to hospital following the emergency call. Neighbours reported seeing an ambulance outside the home. No cause of death has yet been given.

Tributes have poured in from stars following the star’s unexpected death. He had been planning a conversation tour next year running into 2027 with Mani admitting that he was “getting too old now.”

Last Thursday, he had revealed a 69-date schedule from late 2026 and early 2027. The tour was titled: The Stone Roses, Primal Scream, and Me – An Intimate Evening with Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield.

On Facebook, Mani wrote: “I think @mm embarking on what could be my final road trip….. Getting too old now…. Anyway, there’s a lot to go at…. Anybody wanting to hear slaggings off of bandmates … or titbits of dirt, conjecture & gossip…. I’m not that guy… I will be giving my skewed vision of my own life, I never did, and would never rat on my comrades… hope you come out and say hello.”

Ever since their first album, Mani’s basslines were core to the Stone Roses’ sound. The song “I Wanna Be Adored” opened their 1989 debut album The Stone Roses and it is Mani’s bassline that crashed through the slow-burn intro to make it one of the most iconic album openings in British rock.

Paying tribute to his music, record shop Rough Trade posted: “The perfect example of how a bassist can be the beating heart of a band.”

The Stone Roses’ famous gig in 1990 at Spike Island inspired a generation of British musicians including the teenage Liam Gallagher.

In one of his final interviews just last month, he revealed he was itching to get back on stage. Speaking in mid-October, Mani had said he had recently been to his lock-up and looked at his bass guitars and was being encouraged by other musicians to pick it up again.

His beloved wife Imelda, who died nearly two years to the day on November 18, 2023. She had been diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in November 2020 and died at the age of just 52.

The married couple shared their twin boys, Gene and George 12, who were born in January 2013. Imelda spoke about her illness to ITV Granada Reports in October 2022. She said: “The tumour in my bowel had spread to my liver. It was a massive shock, because I wasn’t really poorly.

“Then I had some emergency surgery, and I responded quite well to chemo, so I’ve been on quite a big journey over the past two years.”

Source: Mirror