2007-01-04 06:27:01 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
save repeating it, DOUGLAS B has got it, may i add Shaun Ryder is one of England's finest poets and a good all round egg
2007-01-04 07:22:46 · answer #1 · answered by STEVE T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Happy Mondays and Black Grape
Shaun Ryder (aka X) (born Shaun William Ryder on August 23, 1962, in Little Hulton, Salford, Greater Manchester) is an English singer and songwriter and an ex postman who became famous in the "Madchester" era band Happy Mondays. His lyrics, dismissed by some as drug induced gibberish, also received critical praise for their wit and musical fusion with the sound of the band. Ryder's struggle with drugs eventually led to the break up of the Mondays in 1992.
Shaun Ryder posing on the cover of New Musical Express, 1990.The film "24 Hour Party People", starring Steve Coogan who played Tony Wilson, was loosely based on Shaun Ryder and the Happy Mondays while they were signed to Factory Records in the late eighties and early nineties.
Despite rumours of how his substance abuse had finally caught up with him, Ryder returned to the spotlight in 1995 with his new project, Black Grape, an immediate success whose first release - the ironically named "Its Great When You're Straight... Yeah" - topped the British album chart and spawned several hit singles. The follow up album did not reach the same critical nor commercial prosperity, and the group split in 1997.
He collaborated with Trigger and Jim on their 1999 comeback MC Hammer and Sickle.
Ryder has taken part in two reformations of the Happy Mondays (1999-2000 and 2004-) and released a solo album to mixed critical acclaim named "Amateur Night At the Big Top" and suffered a litigation with former Black Grape management, a process which he eventually lost.
2007-01-04 06:38:32 · answer #2 · answered by Vanessa 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sean was in the Happy Mondays
2007-01-04 06:47:41 · answer #3 · answered by pammy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Happy Mondays
2007-01-04 06:30:38 · answer #4 · answered by truckiechicken 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Happy Mondays and later Black Grape. Ha ha haaaa, him and Bez used to go to the same 'Youth Club' as I did, in Boothstown. It was just when they were starting out and they had released their first EP - 'Forty Five', which personally I think was their best record EVER. They were so hilarious.
2007-01-06 09:47:56 · answer #5 · answered by burrowsybobs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Happy Grapes and Black Mondays i beleve...
Watch the film 24 Party People for more madchester fun it's effing grooovy!////xs
2007-01-04 07:43:28 · answer #6 · answered by subway stu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Happy Mondays !
2007-01-04 06:28:45 · answer #7 · answered by Fairy Dust :*:*: 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Happy Mondays
Black Grape
And he sang on tracks by
Gorrillaz
Chemical Brothers
2007-01-04 06:30:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It was the Happy Mondays and he's still in Black Grape......Mad for it...check the link below for more info...
2007-01-04 06:36:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you're twisting my melon man. happy mondays
2007-01-04 06:30:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋