A book about Oasis and Joy Division was announced

A book devoted to Manchester rock music scene will be published on April 28. It was written by famous journalist and Goldblade frontman John Robb, and tells the story about such bands as Oasis, Smiths, Joy Division and others.

The book is titled The North Will Rise Again: Manchester Music City 1978-2008. It will feature interviews with Morrissey, Ian Brown, Oasis’ Noel and Liam Gallagher and The Fall frontman Mark Smith and a lot of other musicians.

«I've spoken to just about everybody. In fact, the biggest problem has been keeping it all down to a manageable size. The book is around 155,000 words long as it is and it could have been double that. Ian Brown gave me 30,000 words to work with», said Robb.