Peter Hook: “Prince Andrew’s Secret Service men shot out New Order’s amplifier”

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The Stone Roses was one of them!”WRONG. Shaun (Simon Pegg) is upset when Ed (Nick Frost) chucks ‘Blue Monday’ – the others tossed are Prince’s ‘Batman’ soundtrack, Dire Straits and Sade.

The Stone Roses’ ‘Second Coming’ is saved after some debate.“If it was a fucking zombie attack, I’d have thrown ‘Blue Monday’ too!”Didn’t New Order once spurn an invitation to Prince’s Paisley Park mansion? “We did.

We played First Avenue in Minneapolis in 1983. Afterwards, the manager said: ‘The club’s owner wants to know if you’d like to go to his house to hang out.

You’ll love it – everything’s purple!’. We thought it was a Gary Glitter or Jimmy Savile type thing and went: ‘Listen, tell the old perv we’re busy’.“We’ve missed the chance to meet loads of.