From M.O.S.T.O.N to Matchstalk Men: 25 pop songs about life in Greater Manchester

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Elvis' 'Marie's the Name' and Victoria Wood's 'Fourteen Again' and 'Funny How Things Turn Out.' But the lyrics are all about a young boy visiting the fair, which Platt Fields Park, which straddles Fallowfield and Rusholme, famously held every year."The real idea was to do something from the fairground," Johnny Marr told author Johnny Rogan for his book on the band."I'd spend a lot of time at the fair in Wythenshawe Park and I worked at a speedway in a place down in Cheshire."I still maintain that the best place to hear music is at the fairground.

If you get your records played at the fair you're a great pop group. I used to go there all the time, not necessarily to go on the rides, but to look at girls.

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