Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday

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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. 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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 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). Helpful asides from Shaun Ryder and others, including Berry’s son Arlo who proves fairly lucid – opportunity for another book?

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. Shaun Ryder (who pops up throughout this book) has already done a couple of excellent biographies with pretty much the same details. 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.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. Although it's out together by a professional music journalist, this second biography of Bez has his stamp all over it.

Mark Berry is the kid who clambered up on stage to dance with the band and never climbed down again. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Don't get me wrong it's a fun read at times but the Mondays stories are starting to wear a bit thin now.

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.