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Hallelujah!: The Extraordinary Story of Shaun Ryder and "Happy Mondays" Book

First forming as a collaboration between Shaun Ryder and his brother Paul in 1980, (it was, apparently, "something to do, like"), Happy Mondays were to become one of the classic Manchester bands of the late 1980s/early 1990s. With classic albums such as "Bummed" and "Pills'N'Thrills'N'Bellyaches", (including "Kinky Afro" and "Step On"), the band were to become cultural icons, not least for the numerous "rock & roll" stories of drink and drugs that surrounded Shaun Ryder, and his hilarious dancing sidekick Bez.The group disbanded in 1992, amongst accusations of heroin addiction and numerous "I'll never work with them again" claims. However, against sizeable odds, such statements were to prove misguided, and the group's members were indeed to come together once more in one of rock's more unlikely returns. John Warburton's Hallelujah tells the story of how this comeback came about. Warburton and Ryder had first met when collaborating on the latter's column for the British tabloid "news"paper The Daily Sport, and the style of that publication heavily influences the amusingly illustrated book. With chapter subtitles such as "Shaun bites Gaz's head", "Stoned man sets himself on fire", "Lobster enters Shaun's pants", and "Author slaps out fire in socks", the tone is set for what is one of the more entertaining soap operas in rock's more recent past. The author uses a combination of lengthy quotations from such witnesses as Keith Allen, Chris Moyles, Steve Lamacq and Jo Wiley, and his own excitable, exclamation-mark saturated prose to capture the mood of the Monday's late 1990s reformation. Whether it be in describing staged orgies, (one), near-drownings (two), or the rendering of band-members/journalists as being "off their heads" (countless), Warburton's enthusiasm is both amusing and contagious, as he takes the reader through what emerges as the "return of the ultimate rock and roll lifestyle".Overall, while readers desiring an analytical analysis of tonal coherence in the Monday's music may be forced to look elsewhere, those seeking an afternoon's top-quality amusement could do a lot worse than take a look at Hallelujah. --Steve PriceRead More

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    Credited with a range of achievements, from creating Madchester and introducing indie kids to dance music, the Happy Mondays were the rock'n'roll story that beggared belief. This is the story of how this hapless group of ruffians got their act back together for a sell-out world tour.

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    Hallelujah is the story of the extraordinary hilarious and triumphant second coming of Shaun Ryder and the Happy Mondays. The Mondays were the band who had it all. Credited with a range of achievements from creating Manchester and introducing indie kids to dance music to bringing ecstasy to Britain they were the rock 'n' roll story that beggared belief. In Shaun they had an inspired gutter-poet; in his sidekick Bez they had a cultural icon. Hallelujah is the story of how this hapless group of ruffians thieves thugs and dealers prompted by boredom drugs and a visit from the taxman got their act back together after six long years and played a sell-out world tour. Along the way a man was set on fire an orgy was staged someone nearly drowned and every single band member got lost in Europe. There were guns writs jellyfish fights copious amounts of class As - and a skull on a stick. Former Daily Sport jounalist John Warburton Shaun's friend and confident went along for the ride. He includes contributions from others who've witnessed the madness first hand including Jo Whiley Chris Moyles Steve Lamacq and Fatboy Slim.

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    The Mondays were the band who had it all. In Shaun they had an inspired gutter-poet. This is the story of how this hapless group of ruffians thieves thugs and dealers prompted by boredom drugs and a visit from the taxman got their act back together and played a sell-out world tour.

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    John Warburton, Shaun Ryder

  • 0753507811
  • 9780753507810
  • John Warburton, Shaun Ryder
  • 8 May 2003
  • Virgin Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
  • New edition
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