Brown: 'Stone Roses were sank by drugs'

Ian Brown has stated that The Stone Roses' lowest point came when he watched guitarist John Squire snort cocaine at 11am.

The singer claimed that the influential Manchester group were not hugely into drugs when they first started and that he is ashamed of what they became by the time they split in 1996.

Brown told The Guardian: "Walking into John's room and seeing him with another delivery of cocaine in a big pile on his table.

"It's 11 in the morning and he's snorting lines of cocaine and I'm thinking, 'S**t, is that what we are now? Do you have to take coke at 11 in the morning just so that you can come up with a guitar line?'"

He added: "I thought we were against all that. I thought we were the real article. If he could have seen himself when he was 15, doing that, he'd have been horrified."