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“You’d have Mark talking about strings, Our Kid talking about amplifiers. Whereas me and Bez would just walk in and be ourselves. So nobody wanted to talk to them”: Shaun Ryder on life in the Happy Mondays

Singer has a new memoir out this month

MusicRadar

Happy Mondays star claims band is neurodiverse and attracts like minds

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The Independent UK

Shaun Ryder says ‘neurodiversity’ brought the Happy Mondays together

Shaun Ryder was diagnosed with ADHD in his fifties

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Manchester 1, London 0: The Brits highs and lows

The Brits’ first appearance in Manchester turned out to be a triumph, with a winning bit of Manc edge

Evening Standard

This year’s Brit awards found a flicker of chaos – but the winners were never in doubt

A Manchester move, Shaun Ryder’s bleeped-out anecdote and the odd leftfield flourish added some life to a slick ceremony – yet when it came to the prizes, commercial heavyweights tended to reign

The Guardian - UK

Tim Burgess leads tributes to Stone Roses’ ‘phenomenal’ Mani at 2026 Brit Awards

Mounfield, who was an original member of Manchester rock band The Stone Roses, died in 2025.

Evening Standard

Wolf Alice call for support for UK’s small venues in Brits group of the year win

Pop star Olivia Dean and singer-songwriter Sam Fender won song of the year for Rein Me In.

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Harry Styles, Rosalia and Olivia Dean turn heads on Brit Awards red carpet

Women in pop dominated the 2026 Brit Awards nominations, with Lola Young, Olivia Dean and Lily Allen leading the charge.

Evening Standard

Harry Styles, Lola Young and Olivia Dean lead red carpet style at Brit Awards 2026

Cobalt blue, feathers and monochrome tailoring dominated the Manchester red carpet.

The Independent UK

In Pictures: Bez and co bring touch of ‘Madchester’ to Brit Awards in Manchester

The music awards are being held in the North West city for the first time, after nearly 50 years in London.

Evening Standard

Watching Watership Down on acid with Bez: Shaun Ryder releases new memoir 24 Hour Party Person

Happy Mondays frontman says forthcoming book will include bullet-dodging scrapes in Jamaica and New York as well as ‘bust-ups and benders’ with his bands

The Guardian - UK

Happy Mondays singer Shaun Ryder calls for statue in Manchester in honour of late Stone Roses legend Mani

Happy Mondays singer Shaun Ryder has called for a statue to be erected in Mani's hometown Manchester in honour of the late Stone Roses bass player.

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Shaun Ryder missed Mani’s funeral due to pneumonia

Happy Mondays star Shaun Ryder was forced to miss Gary 'Mani' Mounfield's funeral last month because he was struck down with a bout of pneumonia.

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Pneumonia prevents Shaun Ryder from attending friend’s funeral

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Shaun Ryder forced to miss funeral of Stone Roses star after he ‘collapsed’ from illness

‘I had to throw everything I could down me, you know, every sort of painkiller and everything else, just to get through it,’ says Happy Mondays frontman

Evening Standard

Shaun Ryder sparks awkward moment with Good Morning Britain comment on BBC Breakfast

The Happy Mondays frontman appeared on the BBC sofa alongside bandmate Bez to mark the 35th anniversary of their landmark album Pills ’n’ Thrills and Bellyaches

Evening Standard

Shaun Ryder says he missed funeral of Stone Roses’ Mani due to bout of pneumonia

Ryder said he was struck down with the illness days before Christmas.

The Independent UK

Awkward moment Shaun Ryder mentions rival show during BBC Breakfast interview

Shaun Ryder and Bez of the Happy Mondays appeared on BBC Breakfast on Tuesday morning to commemorate 35 years of their seminal album Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches. Speaking to presenters Jon Kay and Sarah Campbell, Ryder was asked whether the group ever thought they'd be sitting on the BBC…

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Evening Standard

Alison Hammond reveals feud with I'm A Celebrity co-star

The This Morning presenter finished 10th on the show in 2010

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'It was the best feeling in the world': Shaun Ryder revelled in the success of Black Grape's debut album

Shaun Ryder felt that he proved his doubters wrong with Black Grape's chart-topping debut album It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah, which came following the breakup of Happy Mondays.

Louder

Zeppelin and Floyd hoped his magic would rub off on them. The Happy Mondays just wanted to kidnap him. Donovan just dropped the most epic, name-dropping answer to a question ever

After all, why reply with a short response when you can weave a long tale involving Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Pink Floyd and more instead?

The National (Scotland)

Legendary band announces three gigs at iconic Glasgow venue

A legendary band has announced three concerts at an iconic Glasgow venue.

WhatToWatch

I'm A Celebrity... South Africa season 2: hosts, location, news and everything we know

I'm A Celebrity... South Africa season 2 will see more iconic campmates from the last 20 years return to South Africa.

Evening Standard

Gorillaz joined by special guests as they play Demon Days album in full

The band are playing four shows at the Copper Box Arena on east London’s Olympic Park.

The Conversation

Black Grape: It’s Great When You’re Straight… Yeah at 30 – one of music’s greatest comeback stories

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Shaun Ryder had the world at his feet. His band, The Happy Mondays, had been key players in the UK “Madchester scene” and had scored a platinum selling album with 1990’s Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches. Bands everywhere had tried to imitate the…

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