ONE LOVE SOMETHING'S BURNING

THE STONE ROSES have scrapped the cover artwork for their new single 'One Love' after spotting "the suggestion of a swastika" in John Squire's sleeve illustration.

The unintentional 'swastika formed part of an abstract painting by guitarist Squire. But the effect was only noticed when the proofs of the cover came back from the printers-the band discovering to their horror that people could miscontrue the design as being the Nazi emblem.

"If you looked at it in a certain way you could see the suggestion of a swastika in the painting," a Stone Roses spokesman toid NME. "When he realised, John just tore up the proofs."

As well as proofs of the sleeve, a number of T-shirts featuring Squire's original painting were also made up, but will now be withdrawn.

The single itself has again been remixed by Adrian Sherwood-but it's the original John Leckie produced version that'll appear first on Silvertone.

The band have also confirmed that they will be playing their first dates in America next month, where their album has continually hovered around the bottom of the Billboard Top 100.

The band then set off to Hawaii to play a couple of small shows at the beginning of July.
Meanwhile, big money negotiations to televise The Stone Roses gig at Spike Island fell through last week. Central Music had led the race to record the gig for screening by BSB and Central TV in a deal rumoured to be worth £100,000 for the band. However, talks between TV officials and the Roses broke down.