Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist and positive force Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield left us on November 20.

Fondly remembered this month...

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Fifty years on from their first successes, Roger McGuinn, the 12-string architect of THE BYRDS , tells Uncut about their exceptional first 18 months – and his relationship with Gene Clark. As the young group make their jet-powered escape from the folk think tank, we hear about making the scene on the Strip, outraging Iowa and a muted response in the United Kingdom. But ultimately how “Eight Miles High” became the spectacular conclusion of the band’s first era. “I almost left The Byrds entirely to go and be in this space band With Dino Valente,” McGuinn tells John Robinson

Comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest and funniest, but often overlooked, names in showbiz