The English Roses One of the teachers there had described the girls as "The English Roses" which Madonna found "funny". She had already progressed with a few other stories but wanted to write about girls who always felt they did not have "enough". The death of Madonna's mother at an early age had always affected her, and her musical endeavors. So while developing Binah, she drew from her own experience of dealing with her mother's death. Like her, Binah kept a picture of her mother beside her bed. It was Madonna's "own personal experience and I needed to come up with things for
The Stone Roses (album) featuring the album on disc one, a 15-track collection of unreleased demos titled "The Lost Demos" on disc two, and a DVD featuring a 1989 live performance titled "Live in Blackpool"; and a 3CD/3LP/1DVD collector's edition box set, which features: Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. The Stone Roses (album) The Stone Roses is the debut studio album by English rock band the Stone Roses. It was recorded mostly at Battery Studios in London with producer John Leckie from June 1988 to February 1989 and released in May of that year by Silvertone Records. "The Stone Roses" was