Bez happy mondays autobiography example

Happy Mondays’ Bez, 58, on why now is the right time to shed light on his rock’n’roll career, swapping painkillers for ginger and turmeric and working with Shaun Ryder on Gogglebox.

You’re releasing your autobiography – why now?

I don’t know really.

A story of a young man who spends his days in constant pursuit of drugs could turn out to be a sad and cautionary tale.

A story of a young man who spends his days in constant pursuit of drugs could turn out to be a sad and cautionary tale.

Bez on why now is the right time to release his autobiography Buzzin', his time in prison, outlook on life and friendship with Shaun Ryder.

This is the story of a bad lad who has turned his life good, tracing his passage from early-thirty-something casualty to middle-aged politician, eco-warrior.

The Happy Mondays' chief maraca-shaker and undisputed national treasure's memoir.

In the opening chapter, Bez detailed an incident during a Happy Mondays gig at Manchester's Haçienda nightclub in In the middle of the set, he fell off.

It was suggested to me and I was getting married – and obviously getting married ain’t cheap these days. So I thought every little bit helps. I told my stories to my ghost writer and he wrote them.

How did it feel, going through all you’ve experienced?

It wasn’t until I read the book for the audio recording that other stories started coming back that I could have included because the biggest problem was trying to remember all the shenanigans I got up to. There are a lot of them.

A lot of the time you were drunk or stoned which doesn’t help…

A lot of the stuff I just do