They Came from Manchester: The Story of Mancunian Pop

MUSIC: "This Charming Man" by The Smiths

# Punctured bicycle

# On a hillside desolate

# Will nature make a man of me yet?

# When in this charming car

# This charming man

# Why pamper life's complexity

# When the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat

# I would go out tonight

# But I haven't got a stitch to wear

# This man said it's gruesome

# That someone so handsome should care... #

# I found out

# How good it fee-ee-eels

# To have

# Your love

# Oh-oh oh-oh

# Say you will

# Will be mi-i-ine

# For ever

# And always

# Oh-oh oh-oh

# Just one look

# And I knew-ew-ew

# That you

# Were my only one

# Oh-oh oh

-# I

-I thought I was dreaming

# But I was wrong, yeah yeah yeah

# Oh but I'm gonna keep on scheming

# Till I can make you Make you my own

# So you see

# I really ca-a-are

# Without you

# I'm nothing

# Oh-oh oh-oh

# Just one look

# And I know-ow-ow

# I'll get you

# Someday oh-oh-oh oh

-# I

-I thought I was dreaming

# But I was wrong, yeah yeah yeah

# Oh, but I'm gonna keep on scheming

# Till I can make you Make you my own

# Just one look

# That's all it took, yeah

# Just one look That's all it took... #

# ..You were made for me

# Everybody tells me so

# You were made for me

# Don't pretend that you don't know

# All the flowers in the field

# Were made to please the bees

# For the fishes swim to make the rivers run

# To the sea

# Every hand was made to hold another

# Tenderly

# When I kissed you on your lips

# I knew that you were made for me

# You were made for me

# Everybody tells me so

# You were made for me

# Don't pretend that you don't know

# La la la, la la, la la, la la

# La la, la la

# La la la, la la, la la, la la

# La la, la la, la la, la la

# La la la la la. #

# I went to a party at the local county jail

# All the cons were dancing and the band began to wail

# But the guys were indiscreet They were brawling in the street

# At the local dance at the local county jail

# Well, the band were playing And the booze began to flow

# But the sound came over on the police car radio

# Down at Precinct 49

# Having a tear-gas of a time

# Sergeant Baker got a call from the governor of the county jail

# Load up, load up, load up with rubber bullets

# Load up, load up, load up with rubber bullets

# I love to hear those convicts squeal

# It's a shame these slugs ain't real

# But we can't have dancin' at the local county jail

# Sergeant Baker and his men made a bee-line for the jail

# And for miles around You could hear the sirens wail

# There's a rumour goin' round death row

# That a fuse is gonna blow

# At the local hop at the local county jail

# Whatcha gonna do?

# Whatcha gonna do about it? Whatcha gonna do? #

# Ooh, wah-wah, ooh, wah-wah, ooh

# Ooh, wah-wah, ooh, wah-wah, ooh

# Been another blue day without you, girl

# Been another sad summer song

-# I've been thinking about you, girl

-All night long

# Been another sad tear on my pillow

# Been another memory to tell me you're the one, girl

-# I've been thinking about you, girl

-All night long

# Sad sweet dreamer

# It's just one of those things you put down to experience

# Sad sweet dreamer

# It's just one of those things you put down to experience

# Been another long night and I've missed you, girl

# Been another story from those endless magazines

-# I've been thinking about you, girl

-All night long

# Sad sweet dreamer

# It's just one of those things you put down to experience

# Sad sweet dreamer

# It's just one of those things you put down to experience

# Was so happy when I found you

# But how was I to know

# That you would leave me walking down that road

# Been another hard luck story

# Been another man who thought that he was oh so strong

-# I've been thinking about you, girl

-All night long

# Sad sweet dreamer

# It's just one of those things you put down to experience

# Sad sweet dreamer

# It's just one of those things you put down to experience! #

It looks like he's just come out of Risley for the day, dunnit?

Plastic punks!

I want him to do something for me. Cos look at me now. I'm nothin'.

That's what punk is.

# You stir my natural emotions

# You make me feel I'm dirt And I'm hurt... #

People who are saying that I'm vile and obscene. Do I look vile and obscene?

# And if I start a commotion

# I run the risk of losing you And that's worse

# Ever fallen in love with someone Ever fallen in love

# In love with someone Ever fallen in love

# In love with someone you shouldn't have fallen in love with?

# I can't see much of a future

# Unless we find out what's to blame What a shame

# And we won't be together Much longer

# Unless we realise That we are the same

# Ever fallen in love with someone Ever fallen in love

# In love with someone Ever fallen in love

# In love with someone you shouldn't have fallen in love with?

# You disturb my natural emotions

# You make me feel I'm dirt And I'm hurt

# And if I start a commotion

# I'll only end up losing you And that's worse

# Ever fallen in love with someone Ever fallen in love

# In love with someone Ever fallen in love

# In love with someone you shouldn't have fallen in love with?

# Ever fallen in love with someone

# Ever fallen in love In love with someone

# Ever fallen in love In love with someone

# You shouldn't have fallen In love with? #

# This and that, they must be the same

# What is legal is just what's real

# What I'm given to understand

# Is exactly what I steal

# I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd

# I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd

# I was shocked to find what was allowed

# I didn't lose myself in the crowd

# Shot

# By both sides

# On the run

# To the outside of everything

# Shot

# By both sides

# They must have come to a secret understanding

# New offences always in my nerves

# They're taking my time by force

# They have to rewrite all the books again

# As a matter of course

# I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd

# I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd

# I was shocked to find what was allowed

# I didn't lose myself in the crowd

# Shot

# By both sides

# On the run

# To the other side of everything

# Shot

# By both sides

# They must have come to a secret understanding... #

Most of the dross that's around - and there are records which are better than most of the dross -

don't get played because they are unsettling.

They come from somewhere slightly deeper within the soul

than the level of a pure hit factory.

I think Cliff's latest single is a work of genius, a perfect pop song,

but this lot are doing the same kind of thing, they're using melody and rhythm in a hypnotic way,

but because it's slightly sinister and Gothic, it won't be played, which seems a shame.

# And she turned around and took me by the hand

# And said, I've lost control again

# And how I'll never know just why or understand

# She said, I've lost control again

# And she screamed out kicking on her side

# And said, I've lost control again

# And seized up on the floor, I thought she'd die

# She said, I've lost control again

# She's lost control again

# She's lost control

# She's lost control again

# She's lost control

# Well I had to phone her friend to state my case

# And say she's lost control again

# And she showed up all the errors and mistakes

# And said I've lost control again

# She expressed herself in many different ways

# Until she lost control again

# And walked upon the edge of no escape

# And laughed, I've lost control again

# She's lost control again

# She's lost control

# She's lost control again

# She's lost control. #

Wait your bloody wait your bloody lost and bloody found

Stuck in bloody Chickentown

The bloody pies are bloody old The bloody chips are bloody cold

The bloody beer is bloody flat The bloody flats have bloody rats

The bloody clocks are bloody wrong The bloody days are bloody long

It bloody gets you bloody down Evidently Chickentown.

Far from crazy pavements

The taste of silver spoons

A clinical arrangement

On a dirty afternoon

The faecal germs of Mr Freud

Are rendered obsolete

The legal term is null and void

In the case of Beasley Street

In the cheap seats where murder breeds

Somebody runs out of breath

Sleep is a luxury they don't need

A sneak preview of death

Belladonna is your flower

Manslaughter your meat

Spend a year in a couple of hours

On the edge of Beasley Street

Where the action isn't

That's where it is

State your position

No vacancies exist

An X-certificate exercise

Ex-servicemen excrete

Smiles and a baby dies

In a box on Beasley Street

In the kingdom of the blind

A one-eyed man is king

Beauty problems are redefined

The doorbells do not ring

A light, full burst, like a blister

The only form of heat

Where a fellow sells his sister

Down a river on Beasley Street

In the boarding houses and the bedsits

Full of accidents and fleas

Somebody gets it

Where the missing persons freeze

Wearing dead men's overcoats

You can't see their feet

A riff joint shuts opens up

Right down on Beasley Street...

As you can see, everything has just vanished.

The whole thing has been erased

from the face of the earth.

I feel great anger. I feel massive sadness

It's like I've had a complete loss of childhood because

although I've always lived in Manchester and

I've always lived relatively close to here, this part of Manchester.

Now, when I pass through here,

or even being here today, it's just so foreign to me.

That's quite sad.

# In this charming car

# This charming man

# Why pamper life's complexity

# When the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?

# I would go out tonight

# But I haven't got a stitch to wear

# This man said, "It's gruesome

# "That someone so handsome should care"

# Ow!

# A jumped up pantry boy

# Who never knew his place

# He said, "Return the ring"

# He knows so much about these things

# He knows so much about these things

# I would go out tonight

# But I haven't got a stitch to wear

# This man said, "It's gruesome

# "That someone so handsome should care"

# Na, na-na, na-na, na-na

# This charming man

# Na, na-na, na-na, na-na

# This charming man

# Ow!

# A jumped up pantry boy

# Who never knew his place

# He said, "Return the ring"

# He knows so much about these things

# He knows so much about these things

# He knows so much about

# These things. #

CHEERING

# Ah-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h

# How does it feel

# When you treat me like you do

# And you laid your hands upon me

# And told me who you are

# I thought I was mistaken

# And I thought I'd heard you speak

# Tell me how do I feel

# Tell me how, how do I feel

# Those who came before me

# Lived through their vocations

# From the past until completion

# They will turn away no more

# And I still find it so hard

# To say what I need to say

# But I'm quite sure That you'll tell me

# Just how I should feel today. #

# On The Buses, up the stair

# By the television

# Pretend to learn

# Where's the lay of the land my son?

# Where's the lay of the land my son?

# Where's the lay of the land my son?

# The last Briton on the street

# He's in a radio fuzz

# He's dead and beat

# No longer reflects our daft fate

# We'll leave this city

# Hit a quick coach Take the town in Surrey

# There's nothing here But crooks and death

# Kerb crawlers of the worst order

# Where's the lay of the land my son?

# Where's the lay of the land my son?

# Eldritch house

# With green moss

# Sound of ordinary on the waves

# Tiles drip from its roof

# Home secretary has a weird look. #

# Holding back the years

# Thinking of the fear I've had so long

# When somebody hears

# Listen to the fear that's gone

# Strangled by the wishes of pater

# Hoping for the arms of mater

# Get to me sooner or later

# I'll keep holding on

# Oh, yes, I will

# I'll keep holding on

# Holding back the years

# Chance for me to escape From all I've known

# Holding back the tears

# There's nothing here has grown

# I've wasted all my tears

# Wasted all those years

# Nothing had the chance to be good

# Nothing ever could, yeah

# Sing with me

# I'll keep holding on

# Holding on

# I'll keep holding on

# Holding you so tight

# I'll keep holding on

# Mmm-mmm

# I'll keep holding on

# Oooh, ooh, so tight

# All right

# Mm, oh

# Well, I've wasted all my tears

# Wasted all of those years

# And nothing had the chance to be good

# Cos nothing ever could

# Oh, no

# Ohh

# I'll keep holding on

# Holding on

# I'll keep holding on

# Holding you so tight now

# I'll keep holding on

# Ohh-oh-ohhh

# I'll keep holding on

# Holding, holding

# Holding, ohhhh

# La-ba-la-la-la-la. #

# Oh, oh, oh, oh! #

PUMPING DANCE MUSIC PLAYS

When you're on an E, it feels like you love everybody.

It's just brilliant. Superb.

Drugs are dangerous. Don't take them.

They can kill you. That's the simple message.

Just don't take them.

More people have died from drinking and driving than anybody has off Es.

I think alcohol should be banned and Es should be...legalised.

The Stone Roses, one of two Manchester bands playing on Top Of The Pops tonight.

They've just finished their Japanese and European tour and have a new entry at 13!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# The gold road's sure a long road

# Winds on through the hills for 15 days

# The pack on my back is aching

# The straps seem to cut me like a knife

# The gold road's sure a long road

# Winds on through the hills for 15 days

# The pack on my back is aching

# The straps seem to cut me like a knife

# I'm no clown I won't back down

# I don't need you to tell me what's going down

# Down down down down da down down down

# Down down down down da down down down

# I'm standing alone

# I'm watching you all

# I'm seeing you sinking

# I'm standing alone

# You're weighing your gold

# I'm watching you sinking. #

APPLAUSE

Now a band from Manchester. They're called Happy Monday,

featuring a special guest, Kirsty MacColl.

The song's Hallelujah and it's number 30!

# Ha-lle-lu-jah

# Ha-lle-lu-jah

# Hallelujah

# Hallelujah

# We're here to pull ya

# Back in to do it all the same

# Hallelujah, hallelujah

# Not sent to save ya

# Just here to spank ya

# Play a game

# Do it long, long

# Doin' it long Fine, fine

# Doin' it fine

# Go in, out

# Goin' in, not out

# Hallelujah, hallelujah

# Not here to praise ya

# Just here to raise ya Fill you full of maize

# Ha-lle-lu-jah

# Ha-lle-lu-jah

# Hallelujah, hallelujah

# We're Mr Bitter

# We'll take a bit of this and that

# Hallelujah, hallelujah

# When Shaun William Ryder

# Will lie down beside ya Fill you full of junk

# Ha-lle-lu-jah

# Ha-lle-lu-jah

# Ha-lle-lu-jah

# Ha-lle-lu-jah

# Ha-lle-lu-jah. #

ACID HOUSE MUSIC PLAYS

It's Saturday night.

And in downtown Manhattan, punters at New York's hippest club, Mars,

are rocking to a new beat, the house sound of Manchester.

# Oh, yeah... #

The city's latest and biggest export is A Guy Called Gerald.

22-year-old Gerald Simpson who lives on a council estate in Hulme.

His first single, Voodoo Ray, cost him a mere £300 quid to record,

has already sold 10,000 copies here and is selling even faster on import

in New York and Chicago.

# Ooh...ah...yeah

# Voodoo voodoo voodoo ray

# Voodoo voodoo voodoo Voodoo voodoo voodoo ray ray

# Voodoo ray Voo-voo-voodoo ray

# Voodoo voodoo voodoo ray

# Voodoo ray

# Voodoo ray

# Voodoo ray

# Voo-voo-voodoo ray

# Voodoo ray

# Voodoo voodoo voodoo ray

# Voodoo ray

# Voodoo voodoo voodoo voodoo ray

# Ooh...ah...yeah

# Ooh...ah...yeah

# Ooh...ah...yeah

# Ooh...ah...yeah

# Ooh...ah...yeah

# Voodoo ray

-# Ooh...ah...yeah

-Voodoo ray

# Voodoo ray

# Voodoo voodoo ray. #

# I'll sing myself to sleep

# A song from the darkest hour

# Secrets I can't keep

# Inside of the day

# Swing from high to deep

# Extremes of sweet and sour

# Hope that God exists

# I hope, I pray

# Drawn by the undertow

# My life is out of control

# I believe this wave will

# Bear my weight

# So let it flow

# Oh, sit down

# Oh, sit down

# Oh, sit down

# Sit down next to me

# Sit down, down, down, down, down

# In sympathy

# Now I'm relieved to hear

# That you've been

# To some far out places

# It's hard to carry on

# When you feel all alone

# Now I've swung back down again

# It's worse than it was before

# If I hadn't seen such riches

# I could live with being poor

# Oh, sit down

# Oh, sit down

# Oh, sit down

# Sit down next to me

# Sit down, down, down, down, down

# In sympathy

# Those who feel the breath of sadness

# Sit down next to me

# Those who find they're touched by madness

# Sit down next to me

# Those who find themselves ridiculous

# Sit down next to me

# In love, in fear

# In hate, in tears

# In love, in fear

# In hate, in tears

# In love, in fear

# In hate, in tears

# In love, in fear

# In hate

# Oh, sit down

# Oh, sit down

# Oh, sit down

# Sit down next to me

# Sit down, down, down, down, down

# In sympathy

# Down. #

We decided there was one record

that lifted our spirits more than any others.

The Mercury Music Prize 1994 winner is...

M People's Elegant Slumming.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

MUSIC: "Moving On Up" by M People

# You've done me wrong

# Your time is up

# You took a sip

# From the devil's cup

# You broke my heart

# There's no way back

# Move right outta here, baby

# Go and pack your bags

# Just who do you think you are?

# Stop acting like

# Some kind of star

# Just who do you think you are?

# Take it like a man, baby

# If that's what you are

# I'm moving on up

# You're moving on out

# Movin' on up

# Nothing can stop me

# Moving on up

# You're moving on out

# Time to break free

# Nothing can stop me

# They brag a man

# Has walked in space

# But you can't even

# Find my place

# There ain't nothing

# You can do

# Cos I've had enough of me, baby being part of you

# Just who do you think you are?

# This time you've gone too far

# Just who do you think you are?

# Take it like a man, baby if that's what you are

# I'm moving on up

# You're moving on out

# Movin' on up

# Nothing can stop me

# Moving on up

# You're moving on out

# Time to break free

# Nothing can stop me

# Yeah. #

CHEERING

# Moving on up, moving on up

# Hm, mm, mm-mm!

# Moving on up, moving on up

# Yeah!

# Moving on up, moving on up

# Hm, mm, mm-mm!

# Moving on up, moving on up

# I'm moving on up

# You're moving on out

# Movin' on up

# Nothing can stop me

# Moving on up

# You're moving on out

# Time to break free

# Nothing can stop me

# Moving

# Moving

# Moving

# Nothing can stop me. #

Two of Britain's most popular pop groups have begun the biggest chart war in 30 years.

The Manchester band Oasis and their arch-rivals Blur released new singles today,

each hoping to reach the number-one spot next week.

# I live my life in the city There's no easy way out

# The day's moving just too fast for me

# I need some time in the sunshine

# I gotta slow it right down

# The day's moving just too fast for me

# I live my life for the stars that shine

# People say it's just a waste of time

# When they said I should feed my head

# That to me was just a day in bed

# I'll take my car and drive real far

# Now we're concerned about the way we are

# In my mind my dreams are real

# Are you concerned about the way I feel

# Tonight

# I'm a rock'n'roll star

# Tonight

# I'm a rock'n'roll star

# I live my life in the city

# There's no easy way out

# The day's moving just too fast for me

# I need some time in the sunshine

# I gotta slow it right down

# The day's moving just too fast for me

# I live my life for the stars that shine

# People say it's just a waste of time

# When they said I should feed my head

# That to me was just a day in bed

# I'll take my car and drive real far

# They're not concerned about the way we are

# In my mind my dreams are real

# Now we're concerned about the way I feel

# Tonight

# I'm a rock'n'roll star. #

-Used to live down there.

-That's where we used to live, down there.

This is where we spent our total childhood round here.

-Just knocking about round here.

-I used to drop loads of acid round the back, there.

I got caught shoplifting in that Co-op.

The magic mushrooms, laugh your head off round there.

Eddie Yates opened that chippy.

-That used to be a cafe. Remember that?

-There's the record shop.

Not as good as Sifters but it was all right.

Used to have some good old Wolf Tones records in there.

Over there, that's the students' area.

See that, there? That's me. See me?

# Hey country boy

# What are you sad about?

# Everyday you make the sun come out

# Even in the pouring rain

# I'll come to see you

# And I'll save you, I'll save you

# What do you care about?

# And she said this and that

# What do I mean to you

# I'll show you if you want the truth

# I can't remember

# I don't know how to tell you

# But I love you just the same

# How many eyes must a young girl have

# I know she makes you cry I know she makes you laugh

# I'll be good to you if I could I'd make you happy

# If I had a son I'd be good to my daddy

# Who loves you though? I bet it's not the same

# As your north country boy

# Hey, country boy

# What are you sad about?

# I think we'll work it out

# Even in the morning rain

# He'll come to see you

# Hope your feelings are the same

# How many ears must a young girl have

# I know she hears you cry I know she hears you laugh

# Itchy and Scratchy come runnin' up the alley

# If you'll be good I'll be good to your daddy

# Who loves you but I bet it's not the same

# As your north country boy

# What do you care about? And she said this and that

# What do I mean to you? I'll show you if you want the truth

# I threw it all away I don't know where I put it

# But I miss it all the same

# How many eyes must a young girl have?

# I know she makes you cry I know she makes you laugh

# I'll be good to you if I could I'd make you happy

# If you'll be good I'd be good to your daddy

# Who loves you but I bet it's not the same

# As your north country boy. #

David Beckham is rapidly discovering that life as a best-selling author

can be every bit as demanding as that of a top footballer.

Some of these fans have travelled hundreds of miles.

They queued for hours for a glimpse of their idol

and to buy the book in which he chronicles the first 25 years of his life.

He's my idol, really. He's a really good footballer and everyone loves him.

I went to see the game last night and he was really good.

We've got a ticket for the next one. Hopefully it'll be good.

He's gorgeous. He's a brilliant football player. I love him.

For someone apparently so ordinary, Beckham excites an extraordinary response from his fans.

Some of them found the experience of meeting him in person altogether too much.

# Four-letter word just to get me along

# It's a difficulty and I'm biting on my tongue and I

# Keep stalling, keeping me together

# People around gotta find something to say now

# Holding back, every day the same

# Don't wanna be a loner Listen to me, oh, no

# I never say anything at all

# But with nothing to consider They forget my name

# They call me her They call me Stacey

# They call me her They call me Jane

# That's not my name That's not my name

# That's not my name That's not my name

# They call me quiet girl But I'm a riot

# Maybe Joleisa Always the same

# That's not my name That's not my name

# That's not my name That's not my name

# I miss the catch if they throw me the ball

# I'm the last kid standing up against the wall

# Keep up, fall in These heels they keep me boring

# Getting glammed up and sitting on the fence now

# So alone all the time at night Lock myself away

# Listen to me Although I'm dressed up, out and all

# With everything considered They forget my name, ame, ame, ame

# They call me her They call me Stacey

# They call me her They call me Jane

# That's not my name That's not my name

# That's not my name That's not my name

# They call me quiet girl But I'm a riot

# Maybe Joleisa Always the same

# That's not my name That's not my name

# That's not my name That's not my name

# Are you calling me darling?

# Are you calling me bird?

# Are you calling me

# Darling?

# Are you

# Calling me bird?

# They call me her They call me Stacey

# They call me her They call me Jane

# That's not my name That's not my name

# That's not my name

# They call me quiet girl But I'm a riot

# Maybe Joleisa Always the same

# That's not my name That's not my name

# That's not my name That's not my name

# They call me her They call me Stacey

# That's not my name That's not my name

# That's not my name That's not my name

# They call me her They call me Jane

# That's not my name That's not my name

# That's not my name That's not my name

# They call me her

# They just call me her That's not my name

# That's not my name

# That's not my name That's not my name

# They call me her

# That's not my name That's not my name

# That's not my name That's not my name! #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING