Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday

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The pre-loved books are carefully cleaned and maintained offering a wide variety of general and specialist titles from children's to adults. 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. 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.

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). 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. Shaun Ryder (who pops up throughout this book) has already done a couple of excellent biographies with pretty much the same details. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. 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.Although it's out together by a professional music journalist, this second biography of Bez has his stamp all over it. 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.

There are very few typos and only one near-howler (to do with a roof and jumping – I’ll let you find it). Through Black Grape, the second band he co-fronted with the Mondays' Shaun Ryder, and his ever-presence in the mass media, Bez's popularity has grown exponentially, his star rocketing ever upwards.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.