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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…

The Independent UK

Bob Dylan introduced him to The Beatles, he married the girlfriend of a Rolling Stone, and he played with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page and meditated with David Lynch. Donovan looks back...

Folk-rock pioneer Donovan on jamming with Macca and Dylan, butting heads with John Paul Jones and meditating with David Lynch

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?

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Legendary band announces three gigs at iconic Glasgow venue

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

The National (Scotland)

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…

The Conversation

Mad for London: Oasis' chaotic supernova years in the capital

The benders, the bust-ups, the legendary gigs... Oasis were made in Manchester but London was where all their dreams came true

Evening Standard

“I tried to write songs with Paul McCartney, but it was impossible, because every idea I had sparked him off and every idea he had sparked me off”: Donovan’s transcendental tales of The Beatles, Dylan, Hendrix and David Lynch

Folkd rock pioneer Donovan on jamming with Macca and Dylan, butting heads with John Paul Jones and meditating with David Lynch

Louder

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Bez called ‘highlight of the night’ after chaotic interaction with Rita Ora at MTV EMAs

The Manchester music icon was having a lot of fun on Sunday evening

The Independent UK

"A national treasure? I'll take that over being called a smackhead, crackhead loser": Shaun Ryder on Black Grape, The Happy Mondays, Gogglebox and why it's great when you're straight, yeah

At 61, Shaun Ryder is still having more fun than anyone you know

Louder

"I got on really well with Lembit Opik, he’s as mad as Bez": Shaun Ryder looks back on his time in I'm A Celebrity...

The Happy Mondays man went into the jungle back in 2010, kickstarting a side-career in reality TV

Louder

"The festival spun out of control": when the Happy Mondays brought chaos to Glastonbury in 1990

The Madchester crew are the reason there is a giant fence around Worthy Farm these days

Louder

“I’d not played for 17 years. I put all my guitars in the loft and never touched them. I didn’t think I knew how to play anymore”: When Happy Mondays split, Mark Day gave up guitar – and was surprised to find he could still play when he returned

Happy Mondays were one of the architects of the Manchester scene that gave birth to Oasis. Armed with basic gear, most of which he can’t remember, their genre-splicing guitarist is finally proud of the influential music he helped create

Guitar World

Mantra Of The Cosmos: Who are the members of the new supergroup?

The new band is made up of former members of the Happy Mondays, Oasis, and Ride

Evening Standard

'Tim Lovejoy was s**t!' Inside the golden era of Soccer AM

With contested rumours of Soccer AM's demise, FourFourTwo revisits an age when it was the uncontested king of football television – and ask former host Helen Chamberlain why people loved it so much

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