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To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Equally, we’re ‘there along with’ Mark B, rather than observing his antics laterally, as we do with some autobiographies. Through Black Grape, the second band he co-fronted with the Mondays' Shaun Ryder, and his ever-presence in the mass media, Bez's popularity has grown exponentially, his star rocketing ever upwards. Neither an accomplished musician nor even a very good dancer, Bez was a prime candidate for fleeting celebrity, soon to sink into 'Where Are They Now?You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Brilliant to read the life and times of Bez, met him last month at the old wollen, part of his conversational tour and got a signed book too what a genuine person he really is. No one’s claiming that Bez wrote all of this: some of it sounds dictated (‘That bloke out the Stones, Ron Wood’) and some edited (‘to whom’), but Andrew Perry has done a fair job of licking it into shape, so that you can still hear it being read in Bez’s own voice.

Shaun Ryder (who pops up throughout this book) has already done a couple of excellent biographies with pretty much the same details. The major problem with the book is that it's boring in parts - the bee keeping and reality party stuff is covered in way too much depth and Bez goes on about the pandemic lockdown being wrong (though he was partying on a private estate at the time). Having been in danger of becoming the rowdy kid in another class at school that nobody liked (although MB admits to skating over much of this, having covered it more in an earlier book), his public image proves nonetheless likeable to loads of people, which is why he won Celebrity Big Brother - and why I bought this book.Mark Berry is the kid who clambered up on stage to dance with the band and never climbed down again. When he bowled into Celebrity Big Brother in 2005, he ended up winning the series, as viewers came to understand his fundamental decency and sunny outlook. 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 and bee-aficionado.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Also at the beginning he states he's not going to go on about criminal activities again because he doesn't want his kids reading it. Loved reading about his career , near misses fighting the establishment and the way he's tried standing up for what he believes in and his way of living now. Although it's out together by a professional music journalist, this second biography of Bez has his stamp all over it.

Don't get me wrong it's a fun read at times but the Mondays stories are starting to wear a bit thin now. As an account of the deeds of the most wayward member of one of our most wayward bands, it does not disappoint. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. At the height of his initial, turn-of-the-1990's infamy as the maraca-wielding dancer with 'Madchester' giants Happy Mondays, the pop-eyed Mark Berry, forever known to the world as Bez, was visibly a danger to society.

There are very few typos and only one near-howler (to do with a roof and jumping – I’ll let you find it). Helpful asides from Shaun Ryder and others, including Berry’s son Arlo who proves fairly lucid – opportunity for another book? His adult life has been extraordinary: unbelievable scrapes with mortality, periods of financial ruin, mindfuck moments like when David Bowie genuflected before him, and enough narcotic-strewn hi-jinx to fill several more volumes of memoir.