Shaun Ryder has long been one of the more colourful characters to emerge from the 80s 'Madchester' scene. This is his frank, and often humourous account of his life, career, and experiences. He burst onto the music scene as singer, writer, and front man with Happy Mondays, and later with Black Grape. His well-documented partying lifestyle is recounted here, along with many other turbulent incidents from the past two decades. He pulls no punches, and talks candidly about his early days of growing up in Manchester, and how this prepared him for the music business, and life on the road.
In contrast to the hard living, drug-fuelled, party animal he is often portrayed as, in this book Ryder comes across as intelligent, sensitive, and more mature than many of us might expect. This book is a credit to him, and it gives us all a great insight into the mind of one of the more creative musicians of this era.