   Story Of The Song: Fool's Gold, The Stone Roses, 1989
"Fool's Gold" lolloped out of the backend of the Eighties with a
loose-limbed strut and an attitude to match. Merging northern
English, pasty-faced guitar rock with urban American dance
music, it was recorded a world away from the Stone Roses' native
Manchester, at Cornwall's small Sawmills studio, a 17th-century
stone building set in its own tidal creek.  The track was
written by the band's guitarist, John Squire, and vocalist, Ian
Brown, in the wake of their debut, self-titled album. Production
was handled by John Leckie and the recording took a little over
a fortnight in the late summer of 1989.  The original demo the
band took to Sawmills comprised little more than a four-bar drum
loop stolen from a James Brown song, a tambourine and some
rudimentary vocals. "When the track ran out on that record, you
could hear them lift the needle and put it on again," recalled
Leckie. The loop was recreated in the studio and the band's
parts then gradually paste