STONE ROSES - BROWN BRIBED POLICE WITH BEER

BROWN BRIBED POLICE WITH BEER

Former STONE ROSES singer IAN BROWN bribed police with crates of booze so they'd allow him to carry on his all-night parties.
The British rockers held large social gatherings in their home town of Manchester, England, when they first got together as a band - but the events became so raucous, cops were regularly called out.
And Brown had a sneaky way of keeping the party going - he gave officers stacks of alcohol to turn a blind eye.
He says, "When we started in 1986, very few people lived in the city centre, so we used to have massive warehouse parties in Fairfield St.
"When the police came along and tried to stop us, we used to give them a crate of ale to keep it going. They would sit outside in their vans supping on ale. When they ran out we would give them another crate - there was nothing they could do with 2000 of us inside. Fancy getting away with that now!"