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The line-up of the band during this first and most important ten-year phase never changed, and the six original members Shaun Ryder, Paul Ryder, Gary Whelan, Paul Davis, Mark Day, and Mark "Bez" Berry remained a tight unit until the first incarnation came to an end in 1994. They experienced their commercial peak with the releases Bummed (1988), Madchester Rave On (1989), and Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches (1990), with the last going platinum in the UK.

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Numerous world tours meant the band had international success as well as massive success in their home country.In August 2006, the band announced that they had completed their first album in fourteen years, with producers Sunny Levine and Howie B, and had signed to Sanctuary Records. In June 2006, Happy Mondays performed in Liverpool, and on 30 July 2006 they were special guests at the Fuji Rock Festival. The tour included other shows at the Manchester Arena, plus other dates in Bournemouth, Glasgow, Dublin, Leeds, Sheffield and Nottingham.

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The group's work bridged the Manchester indie rock music of the 1980s and the emerging UK rave scene, drawing influence from funk, house, and psychedelia to pioneer the Madchester sound. But once their origin story was immortalized in Michael Winterbottom’s 2002 film, 24 Hour Party People, the Mondays embarked on a 21st-century comeback that yielded their first album in 15 years, 2007’s Uncle Dysfunktional. But compared to those synth-pop sophisticates, the Mondays seemed less like a proper band than an unruly gang, the sort that would invite their best mate (Mark Berry, a. Happy Mondays toured the US and Canada with The Psychedelic Furs in late 2009 with Paul Ryder's son and Shaun Ryder's nephew Jake Ryder filling in for Gaz Whelan on drums.citation needed] One of their most popular songs is "Lazyitis (One Armed Boxer)", featuring a surreal duet between Ryder and Karl Denver.

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Although billed as the first original line-up recording since 1992, Paul Davis was not present, and no mention of him was made.Little did Shaun Ryder and his late brother Paul (who died in July) realise, but their group would become one of the pioneers of what became the " Madchester" or "baggy" sound. This was followed by two further albums: Bummed, in 1988, produced by Martin Hannett, and Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches, in 1990, produced by Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne. It contains a line Shaun adapted from the David Essex film, Stardust: "You were wet, but you're getting dryer.