Stone Roses album and singles artwork Quiz

Answer: One Love

"That's another favourite. My brother photographed it and it was a little out of focus, I wasn't happy with it, but the deadline had gone for the artwork. The band were adamant it looked like a swastika, so we had to change it. Someone's released the shirt now. I've seen people wearing it and I don't think 'What's that **** doing with a swastika on his chest?' That was inspired by the Italia 90 logo and a Duckham's oil can. It's one of the few I took the time to paint on a canvas and stretch over a frame. A lot of the others are on bits of calico and stuffed in boxes. This one's in a large, plywood storage box near Morecambe with all my other possessions."
John Squire, 1998

Answer: Stone Roses Self Titled

"The lemons aren't a part of the picture, they're real lemons nailed on because it was photographed on the wall - the photographer didn't have a rostrum camera. It ties in with the lyrics of 'Bye Bye Badman', to do with the Paris student uprisings in May 1968. Me and Ian saw a documentary on it and liked the clothes: there was a guy chucking stones, with a really nice jacket and desert boots.

The students used to suck on lemons to nullify the effects of the tear gas. That's why the tricolor is there.

The green is inspired by the water at the Giant's Causeway in Ireland, where we went before a gig at Coleraine University." -John Squire, 1998

Answer: Fools Gold

"Double Dorsal Doppelganger - There's no real connection with 'Fools Gold', although I could stretch it to the purity of dolphin life over the avarice of human life. It's a con, that. It's photographed through that dappled glass you get in bedroom windows."
-John Squire, 1998

Answer: The Second Coming

"It wasn't supposed to be that dark, that was a mistake. I got a little carried away with the paint, I got distracted - I put it on, went to the bathroom,and when I came back it had dried. I was hoping to wipe it off a lot more than I managed to. It was a nightmare, it took ages to make. I made the material by sewing rectangles together, I was going to make a shirt, but I got bored and dumped it. Recycled it by dipping it in wood glue and draping it over a board." "The band's lawyer, John Kennedy, said that if the album was successful I'd be sued to the hilt by any number of people who'd taken the pictures in the bits cut out of magazines, so we had to go into a Photoshop facility in Manchester and slightly change every image - to the detriment of the piece for me." -John Squire, 1998

Answer: Begging You

"I got hooked on Public Enemy's 'Fear of a Black Planet', and I wanted to make music like that, deconstruct it and re-assemble it - so a guy called Si Crompton was showing me how to use the sequencers and samplers. But it wasn't for me. Too much like a science lesson. So I ripped up the floppy disks I had used and set them in plaster. I pinched all the colours from a Degas painting." -John Squire, 1998