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'I Had Hollywood And I Blew It': Shaun Ryder Could've Been A Big Movie Star
Shaun Ryder claims he could've been a household name in Hollywood.The Happy Mondays star appeared in 1998's 'The Avengers' as Donavan alongside the likes of Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman, but he screwed up his...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 17 June 2020
'It's Like Having Really Bad Toothache': Shaun Ryder's Painful Testicles
Shaun Ryder feels like he has ''really bad toothache'' in his testicles thanks to a ''non-malignant growth''.The Happy Mondays frontman has revealed he's suffering from a strange growth on his testicle, and whilst he's thankfully...
By Bang Showbiz in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 08 June 2020
Donovan Recalls Wild Ecstasy Trip With Happy Mondays
Donovan took Ecstasy with the Happy Mondays.The 60s folk legend and his wife Linda were introduced to the drug by their former son-in-law Shaun Ryder - who was married to their daughter Orielle at the...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 16 May 2020
Shaun Ryder Offered Reality Show
Shaun Ryder insists he's too ''boring'' for a reality show.The Happy Mondays frontman claims he's been approached multiple times to have cameras put in his home but he doesn't think the nation would find his...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 11 May 2020
Shaun Ryder Claims Fans Try To Sell Him Drugs
Shaun Ryder has claimed fans try to sell him drugs all the time.The 57-year-old Happy Mondays and Black Grape star hasn't touched alcohol or drugs for more than a decade, but that hasn't stopped people...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 02 April 2020
Shaun Ryder Cycled To Sobriety
Shaun Ryder quit drugs by going cycling.The Black Grape and Happy Mondays frontman has previously spoken about his use of heroin and ecstacy and says it took mammoth 15-hour bike rides to curb his cravings...
By Clive King in Music / Festivals on 03 July 2017
Shaun Ryder Argues Ed Sheeran's Success Is Due To Industry
Shaun Ryder believes Ed Sheeran's ongoing chart success is due to how the industry now works.The Happy Mondays and Black Grape singer insists the charts are ''irrelevant'' so doesn't really care that the 'Shape of...
By Clive King in Music / Festivals on 05 May 2017
Shaun Ryder: Black Grape Is Better Than Ever Since Ditching Our Habits
Shaun Ryder says Black Grape's new music has ''topped the first album'' because they've ditched the party lifestyle The 54-year-old frontman - who formed the group in 1993 with his Happy Mondays band mate Mark...
By Clive King in Music / Festivals on 24 April 2017
Shaun Ryder Recording Secret Solo Album
The singer reformed his two ex-bands, Happy Mondays and Black Grape, for comeback tours of the U.K. earlier this year (15), following an announcement in 2012 that Happy Mondays were working on new...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 29 September 2015
Iggy Pop Features In Tony Wilson Video Tribute
Wilson, a co-founder of Factory Records and the man behind famed U.K. dance club The Hacienda, was best known for promoting bands from his native Manchester, England, including New Order and Happy Mondays....
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 11 August 2015
Shaun Ryder Spooked By Close Encounter After Ufo Tv Show
The Happy Mondays frontman travelled to Chile in 2012 to shoot a show about extraterrestrials, and shortly after returning to the U.K. he was stunned to see a mystery craft outside his home....
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 02 July 2015
Shaun Ryder's Life-changing Trip
Shaun Ryder found recording in Panama ''life changing''. The 52-year-old singer was joined by his Happy Mondays bandmates to live with the Embera Drua tribe to record a single for new show 'Singing in the...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 06 June 2015
Happy Mondays Record First New Song In 20 Years
Happy Mondays have recorded their first song in 20 years with a rainforest tribe in Central America. While on a trip to Panama to film reality TV series 'Singing In The Rainforest', the 'Step On'...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 28 May 2015
Happy Mondays Sign Up For Reality Tv Show
The reformed hellraiser won a new army of fans when he appeared as a contestant on British survival show I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! in 2010. Now he is...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 27 May 2015
Shaun Ryder Takes Aim At Stephen Hawking Over Aliens
The British physicist stated in a 2010 documentary that it would be a disaster for Earth if extraterrestrials landed on the planet, and suggested experts should stop trying to find and communicate with...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 28 April 2015
Shaun Ryder Agrees To Jungle Tv Show Return
The Happy Mondays star garnered a new army of fans when he appeared in the 2010 series of the U.K. reality show and entertained viewers with his antics, eventually finishing second to singer...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 27 April 2015
Black Grape Plot Summer Reunion Tour
Ryder and his Black Grape bandmate Kermit hit the stage at the Old Granada Studios in Manchester, England earlier this month (Apr15) to support singer/dancer Bez's The Reality Party political campaign and celebrate...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 26 April 2015
Black Grape Reform For Singer/dancer Bez's Election Campaign
Fans flocked to the Old Granada Studios in Manchester, England to support the singer/dancer's All Star Reality Party election campaign and check out his former band, fronted by Shaun Ryder. The group...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 13 April 2015
Happy Mondays Star Shaun Ryder Needs Testosterone Injections To Stay Alive
The singer tells Britain's NME magazine he must receive "a testosterone injection once every three months" or he will "drop dead". Ryder explains he has to resort to extremes because he has...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 09 April 2015
Shaun Ryder Wants To Write For Taylor Swift
Shaun Ryder wants to write songs for Taylor Swift and One Direction.The Happy Monday singer - who has six children from three relationships, including three with current wife Joanne - claims he doesn't know much...
By Bang Showbiz in Music / Festivals on 19 February 2015
Shaun Ryder Searching For Actor To Play Him In Tv Series
Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder is searching for the perfect actor to play him in a warts-and-all dramatisation of his autobiography.Bosses at British network Itv are planning to serialise Ryder's best-selling memoir Twisting My Melon,...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 19 November 2013
Shaun Ryder: 'Miley Cyrus Is Completely Rock And Roll'
Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder has spoken out in defence of Miley Cyrus, insisting her recent headline-grabbing behaviour is simply part of her rock and roll persona.The former Hannah Montana star has become a tabloid...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 11 November 2013
Happy Mondays Star Shaun Ryder Recounts Teenage Ufo Sighting
Happy Mondays star Shaun Ryder has opened up about a Ufo encounter he experienced when he was 15, insisting he's still convinced he wasn't seeing things.The Step On singer, who was a big part of...
By WENN in Music / Festivals on 09 November 2013
Shaun Ryder: "I Like James Arthur - But He Should See My Dentist"
Shaun Ryder has come out of the closet and admitted that not only is he a fan of the X Factor, but more specifically he is a fan of this season's winner, James Arthur. That...
By Joe Wilde in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 15 December 2012
Shaun Ryder's Close Encounter With Alien Life In Chile
British rocker Shaun Ryder has been shown secret film footage of alien life forms visiting Earth by military bosses in Chile.The Happy Mondays frontman travelled to South America to shoot a documentary on extraterrestrial sightings,...
By WENN on 12 December 2012
Shaun Ryder Celebrates 50th Birthday On Stage
British musician Shaun Ryder celebrated his 50th birthday on stage this week (23Aug12) during his reunion tour with the Happy Mondays.The singer performed with his band at the Ibiza Rocks concert in Spain on Wednesday...
By WENN on 23 August 2012
Shaun Ryder Sickened By Drug Past
Reformed rock wildman Shaun Ryder feels physically sick when he's reminded of his drug-taking past.The Happy Mondays frontman battled addictions to heroin and crack cocaine during his heyday in the early 1990s but he finally...
By WENN on 28 March 2012
Happy Mondays Reunion Was Caused By Stone Roses
Shaun Ryder credits the Stone Roses for the Happy Mondays' reunion. The frontman admitted it was the fellow Manchester group getting back together which propelled his own band to reunite their original line up. He...
By Bang Showbiz on 19 March 2012
Original Happy Mondays Reform For Tour
Happy Mondays' original line up have announced their return. The seven members of the 'Step On' group - key figures in England's Madchester music scene of the late 80s - are set to play together...
By Bang Showbiz on 30 January 2012
No Reunion For The Happy Mondays
A representative for the Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder has ruled out reunion talk following rumours the band's original line-up is making plans to tour in 2012.British newspaper The Sun reported the influential 1990s band...
By WENN on 06 December 2011
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