John Squire on the injury that threatened his ability to play guitar: “It did panic me”

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John Squire has revealed that a past injury threatened his ability to play guitar, recalling how the setback had concerned him.The former Stone Roses guitarist tripped and broke his wrist while playing basketball with his son in 2020.

Recalling the accident during a recent interview with The Guardian, Squire said: “It did panic me.”He continued: “There was a question mark over whether I would get full use of it back.”However, the musician was able to get back to his best form thanks to physiotherapy and a rigorous guitar-playing regime.The publication noted how sustaining the injury “didn’t just force him to play again; it reignited his desire to do so”.When asked if he regretted not releasing more music over the years, however, Squire responded: “There’d be a trade-off.

I might not be married. I might not have as many children, and I might not have seen as much of them.“I don’t feel like I’ve massively fucked up.”Squire was talking to The Guardian alongside Liam Gallagher, with whom he recently launched a collaborative side-project.

The pair released their debut track together, ‘Just Another Rainbow’, earlier this month.Elsewhere in the interview, Squire hinted that he’d begun writing a second collaborative album with Gallagher and teased some live tour dates for later this year.Gallagher previously described the duo’s upcoming first album as “the best record since [The Beatles’] ‘Revolver'”.