Ian Brown's kids seem to have a fairly active role in his business affairs. Recently he revealed that instead of giving them pocket money, he gives them signed merchandise to sell on eBay. Now it seems they scuppered a Stone Roses reunion, of sorts.
Brown revealed that his former bandmate John Squire had written a song for him to use on his new solo album. He told The Word: "It was good, sounded nice - I liked it". However, upon asking his children if he should use it the following apparently happened: "My sons turned round and said 'Dad, you can't work on that. He sold you out, didn't he?' John's manager asked if I liked the tune, and I said: 'I did, but my sons won't let me work on it'".