Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday

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Equally, we’re ‘there along with’ Mark B, rather than observing his antics laterally, as we do with some autobiographies.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 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. 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. Helpful asides from Shaun Ryder and others, including Berry’s son Arlo who proves fairly lucid – opportunity for another book? 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.

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. There are very few typos and only one near-howler (to do with a roof and jumping – I’ll let you find it). 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. Shaun Ryder (who pops up throughout this book) has already done a couple of excellent biographies with pretty much the same details.

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

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