'Amazing' mural to Stone Roses legend 'Mani' complete

'Amazing' mural to Stone Roses legend 'Mani' complete 13 hours agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleMat TrewernandJonny Humphries,North WestMat Trewern/BBCGreg Mounfield said the mural to his brother Gary 'Mani' Mounfield was "fitting" The beaming face of Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist Gary 'Mani' Mounfield has been turned into a giant mural on the side of one of his favourite pubs. The image, on the side of the La Fardy Pub on Oldham Road in Mani's home town of Failsworth, was completed by street artist Pic.One.Art over 11 days and also features a second image of him playing the bass guitar. The 63-year-old died in November last year due to complications from the lung disease emphysema.Pic.One.Art told the BBC: "We just wanted to create a celebration of his life - not just as a musician - but the generous kind of human being he was."An online crowdfunding effort, organised by not-for-profit GRIT art studios in Manchester, paid for the mural but is also raising money for The Maggie's Centre cancer charity which supported the musician's wife, Imelda, during her cancer treatment. Mani's brother, Greg Mounfield, helped facilitate the mural and said it was chosen at a place where they had enjoyed many eventful nights out. "We've drunk here for years," he said. Getty ImagesSome of the biggest names of British 1980s and 90s music, including his former bandmates Ian Brown and Bobby Gillespie, as well as Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher and Paul Weller, were in attendance for Mani's funeral "We've fell out of this pub quite a few times over the years me and my brother and all our friends."I think it's a great spot to have the mural on; it's a great wall, it's a busy main road, everyone will see it going to the M60, and I think it's fitting."Mounfield said he had spoken to people from all over the UK who had travelled up to have a p...