Happy Mondays are an English alternative rock band from Salford, Greater Manchester.
 Formed in 1980, the band's original line-up was Shaun Ryder (vocals), his brother Paul Ryder (bass), Mark Day (guitar), Paul Davis (keyboard), and Gary Whelan (drums).
 Mark "Bez" Berry later joined the band onstage as a dancer/percussionist.
 Rowetta joined the band as a guest vocalist in 1990.
Central Station Design is a Mancunian design company founded by Pat Carroll, Karen Jackson, and Matt Carroll.
 It is usually associated with Factory Records and the Madchester scene of the early 1990s.
 The company created album cover artwork and posters for Factory artists including The Happy Mondays, Black Grape, and James.
 Their design for the Happy Mondays' "Madchester Rave On E.P." in late 1989 became the iconic logo for the movement.
 The Carrolls are cousins of Shaun and Paul Ryder of the Happy Mondays.
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is the public body responsible for co-ordinating transport services throughout Greater Manchester, in North West England.
 The organisation traces its origins to the Transport Act 1968, when the SELNEC Passenger Transport Executive was established to co-ordinate public transport in and around Manchester.
 Between 1974 and 2011, this body was known as the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE), until a reformation of local government arrangements in Greater Manchester granted the body more powers and prompted a corporate rebranding.
 The strategies and policies of Transport for Greater Manchester are set by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and its Transport for Greater Manchester Committee.
Stephen John "Steve" Osborne (born 1963) is a multi-platinum selling British record producer, living in Bath, England.
 He has worked with a wide variety of musicians, including A-ha, New Order, Elbow, U2, Happy Mondays, Placebo, Gregory Porter, Doves, KT Tunstall, Vanessa Carlton etc. (see below for complete list).
 During the 1990s, Osborne was half of the Perfecto Records team, a production and remix collaboration with Paul Oakenfold; the artists they worked with included Happy Mondays and U2.
 He was part of the 1990s dance music act Grace, also with Oakenfold, which existed from 1994 to 1997.
 Osborne most recently has worked with Cat's Eyes on their critically acclaimed album, released in April 2011.
 At the 2012 Soundedit Festival in Poland, Steve Osborne received the prestigious 'The Man With The Golden Ear' Award.
 In 2000 Steve was replaced by Andy Gray who then went on to remix Moby's Natural Blues, U2's Beautiful Day and compose the music for Big Brother UK with Oakenfold under the name Elementfour.
The Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner was the police and crime commissioner, an elected official tasked with setting out the way crime is tackled by the Greater Manchester Police in Greater Manchester.
 The post was created on 21 November 2012, following an election held on 15 November 2012, and replaced the Greater Manchester Police Authority.
 Upon the creation of a Mayor of Greater Manchester and the inaugural election to that position, the duties of Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner were absolved into the mayoralty and the office itself abolished.
 For the entirety of its existence, the commissioner was Labour Party politician Tony Lloyd.
 The police and crime commissioner was required to produce a strategic Greater Manchester Police and Crime Plan, setting out the priorities for the Greater Manchester Police, and their work is scrutinised by the Greater Manchester Police and Crime Panel.
 In November 2014 it was announced that the role would be replaced with a directly elected Mayor of Greater Manchester, and the term of office of the incumbent commissioner was extended to May 2017.
The Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority (GMITA) was a local government institution responsible for the strategic direction of passenger transport in Greater Manchester.
 It existed from 1969 to 1974 as the SELNEC Passenger Transport Authority and was then replaced by Greater Manchester County Council.
 It was created again in 1986 as the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority.
 It was renamed in 2008 as the Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority.
 Policy of the authority was delivered by the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive.
 It was replaced by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority in 2011.
The demography of Greater Manchester is analysed by the Office for National Statistics and data is produced for each of its ten metropolitan boroughs, each of the Greater Manchester electoral wards, the NUTS3 statistical sub-regions, each of the Parliamentary constituencies in Greater Manchester, the 15 civil parishes in Greater Manchester, and for all of Greater Manchester as a whole; the latter of which had a population of 2,682,500 at the 2011 UK census.
 Additionally, data is produced for the Greater Manchester Urban Area.
 Statistical information is produced about the size and geographical breakdown of the population, the number of people entering and leaving country and the number of people in each demographic subgroup.
The Mayor of Greater Manchester is a directly elected political post responsible for the strategic government of Greater Manchester, including health, transport, housing, strategic planning, waste management, policing, the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service and skills.
 The creation of the Mayor of Greater Manchester was agreed between the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, and Greater Manchester's 10 district council leaders.
 As well as having specific powers, the Mayor chairs the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, also assuming the powers of the Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner.
 Tony Lloyd was appointed as Interim Mayor for Greater Manchester on 29 May 2015.
Paris Angels were a seven piece band, hailing from Guide Bridge, Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, associated with the Madchester scene of 1989 -1991.
 Their music fused indie guitars with electronic dance music.
 The band comprised Paul 'Wags' Wagstaff (later of Black Grape and the reformed Happy Mondays), Rikki Turner, Steven Taji, Scott Carey, Mark Adj, Jane Gill and Simon Worrall.
Verona or vrn, is a rock band formed in Punto Fijo at the end of 2000, by Chevy (guitars and vocals), Atari (guitar and backing vocals), Paúl Jatem (bass guitar) and Eduardo (drums).
 In 2001, they recorded their first EP, "Delirium", which included earlier recordings from Chevy.
 Paúl left the band in 2003 and was replaced by Adolfo Alcala.
 Alcala was credited with the composition of Verona's first LP, "Summer Consequence", but he left before its recording.
 He was replaced by Ray Diaz in December 2003.
 In May 2004, Verona released "Summer Consequence".
 The band, with the same members, released its second LP, "Anywhere" in March 2008.

Question: Are Verona and Happy Mondays both from Greater Manchester? 
Answer: no