Take That

In the Spring of 1990, Manchester was a city in the grip of a pop-cultural revolution that was attracting the attention of the world's media. The Stone Roses and the Happy Mondays were in their pomp; the Hacienda had become the most talked-about nightclub on the planet; different music and fashion and clubbing sects were converging to create a plethora of new, baggy sounds and styles.

At the same time, in a small office on a small Mancunian street called Chapel Walks, an entirely different musical enterprise was being planned. A manager called Nigel Martin-Smith had noticed that, Madchester notwithstanding, the British pop charts looked flat. There hadn't been a decent home-grown...

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