Second Coming (The Stone Roses album) Second Coming (The Stone Roses album) Second Coming is the second and final studio album by English rock band The Stone Roses, released through Geffen Records on 5 December 1994 in the UK and in early 1995 in the US. It was recorded at Forge Studios in Oswestry, Shropshire and Rockfield Studios near Monmouth in Wales between 1992 and 1994. It went platinum in the UK and sold over 1 million copies worldwide and was dedicated to Philip Hall, the band's publicist, who died of cancer in 1993. The second album by the Manchester four-piece, it suffered greatly at the
Ten Years After magazine, advertising a book, "Ten Years After The Suez" (referring to the Suez Crisis). The group was the first act booked by the soon-to-be Chrysalis Agency. It secured a residency at the Marquee, and was invited to play at the Windsor Jazz Festival in 1967. That performance led to a contract with Deram, a subsidiary of Decca — the first band Deram signed without a hit single. In October 1967 they released the self-titled debut album, "Ten Years After". In 1968, after touring Scandinavia and the United States, Ten Years After released a second album, the live "Undead", with the