The Stone Roses played to 220,000 people at three shows in Manchester last year
A documentary film charting the return of influential Manchester band The Stone Roses will be premiered in the group's home city later.
The Stone Roses: Made Of Stone features footage from across the band's career and their comeback shows of last year.
Filmmaker Shane Meadows and the band are expected to attend the screening, at Victoria Warehouse, Trafford.
The film will be simultaneously broadcast to 200 UK cinemas, with a general release nationwide on 5 June.
The Stone Roses, whose 1989 eponymous debut is widely regarded in the UK music press as one of the best albums ever, returned after their 1996 break-up for a string of gigs last summer.
'Nervous wreck'Concerts at Manchester's Heaton Park, attended by 220,000 fans, were the first in the UK to feature the band's original line-up for 22 years.
Meadows, a self-confessed Roses fan, said: "You hear people say 'never work with your idols, it can only go wrong' and I was a bit of a nervous wreck.
"Normally as a director you're in control, you have written a script, whereas on this I was following their lead."
The director, perhaps best known for the film and later television series This Is England, said the documentary was as "much about the fans as the band".
He said: "They [the band] were really open with me, they gave me access to clips, photographs, things no-one has ever seen".
The Stone Roses are due to play further gigs this summer, including dates at Finsbury Park and a headline slot at the Isle Of Wight Festival.
Hometown launch for Stone Roses film
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