Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday

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Mark Berry is the kid who clambered up on stage to dance with the band and never climbed down again. Also at the beginning he states he's not going to go on about criminal activities again because he doesn't want his kids reading it.

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.Don't get me wrong it's a fun read at times but the Mondays stories are starting to wear a bit thin now.

There are very few typos and only one near-howler (to do with a roof and jumping – I’ll let you find it). As an account of the deeds of the most wayward member of one of our most wayward bands, it does not disappoint. Shaun Ryder (who pops up throughout this book) has already done a couple of excellent biographies with pretty much the same details.His adult life has been extraordinary: unbelievable scrapes with mortality, periods of financial ruin, mindfuck moments like when David Bowie genuflected before him, and enough narcotic-strewn hi-jinx to fill several more volumes of memoir. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The pre-loved books are carefully cleaned and maintained offering a wide variety of general and specialist titles from children's to adults.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. 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. Although it's out together by a professional music journalist, this second biography of Bez has his stamp all over it.Equally, we’re ‘there along with’ Mark B, rather than observing his antics laterally, as we do with some autobiographies. This is the story of a bad lad who has turned his life good, tracing his passage from early-thirty-something casualty to middle-aged politician, eco-warrior and bee-aficionado.