Liam Gallagher was among the many pallbearers at Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield’s funeral in Manchester on Monday (22.12.25).
Liam Gallagher carried Mani’s coffin at his funeral
The Oasis star, 53, was seen carrying the Stone Roses star’s coffin, which was adorned with the Bye Bye Badman art work by John Squire which featured on the band’s eponymous 1993 debut album, together with Squire and the band’s drummer Alan ‘Reni’ Wren as Mani’s family and friends got here collectively to say goodbye in a service at Manchester Cathedral.
Mani’s Stone Roses bandmate Ian Brown was alongside those that supplied tributes throughout the service, with the musician telling the congregation: “Mani was like a brother to me , a musical comrade. Lovely soul and spirit.
“Mani was in a position to chuckle his method by way of any darkness. He was the life and soul of any room he was in.”
Mani’s Primal Scream bandmate Bobby Gillespie additionally spoke throughout the funeral and he advised the gathering: “Mani’s heat and welcoming method, treating me like an equal, made me really feel like 1,000,000 {dollars} and I’ll always remember that.
“No-one was too necessary to flee his laser-eye capacity to chop the pretentious and self-important all the way down to measurement, myself included. His capacity to make laughter out of any state of affairs was our nice worth wherever we had been on the planet.”
Gillespie added: “Mani’s not useless, he’s simply gone … He’ll at all times reside endlessly in my soul and thoughts.”
Additionally among the many mourners had been Paul Weller, Peter Hook, Glad Mondays star Bez, The Smiths drummer Mike Joyce in addition to former Manchester United footballers Sir David Beckham and Gary Neville, Elbow frontman Man Garvey and politician Andy Burnham, Mayor of Higher Manchester.
The coffin – which was adorned with floral tributes spelling out Mani and R Child – was taken in a procession by way of the streets of Manchester earlier than the service on the cathedral.
The service was being adopted a non-public committal.
Mani died at his house in Stockport on November 20 aged 63. The musician shot to fame with The Stone Roses, however they went their separate methods in 1996, and he went on to hitch Primal Scream. However in 2011, he introduced he had left the band to reunite with The Stone Roses for an enormous stadium tour.
Mani’s loss of life got here two years after he misplaced his spouse Imelda Mounfield, who died in November 2020 after a battle with bowel most cancers.
