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This is a story of Bez, the man with the maracas and Shaun Ryder's sidekick in the Happy Mondays. Bez was the embodiment of the eighties 'Madchester' scene - when asked by a journalist why he took so may drugs he replied, 'It's my job.'
Freaky Dancin' is a rollercoaster ride through the excesses of rock 'n' roll. It is also the story of how a petty criminal, with no future, got up on stage one night at The Hacienda and found himself famous.
'No one has truly and more fully lived the rock lifestyle since The Who's Keith Moon. This is the most honest, funny, outrageous, drug-fuelled rollercoaster of an autobiography since Howard Marks. A cult classic.' Mirror
'Bez emerges as a dangerous lunatic whose entire life is motivated by the pursuit of drugs. But, like his book, he's almost impossible not to like. Top one.' Mix Mag
'Bez presents his life as a triumph against the odds, the pills and thrills of a hyperactive kid who couldn't settle on anything except drugs and petty crime but fronted one of the most important bands of the past ten years.' The Times
'Bez's life story reads like that of a man who stole the world, sold it, bought it back on the cheap, and then left it on the back of a written-off jeep somewhere in the Caribbean.' New Musical Express
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Bez, you can't fail to love the bloke!,
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This review is from: Freaky Dancin': Me and the Mondays (Paperback)
This book is the best read I've had in ages. Laugh out load? Of course I did. The common theme throughout the book is humour and on several occasions I was litterally rolling around on the floor with my sides splitting. Bez, the young scally from Salford made good, well sort of anyway. The book follows his life from birth to present day with the most attention not suprisingly paid to his time with the Monday's and the period just before he joined them. From knocking off golf equipment from a clubhouse, to working as a Morrocan tourist guide in the full north african attire Bez has done it all. And he did it all with the planning and appearance of a complete nutcase. I'm sure many have fallen by the wayside trying follow the same path as Bez but here's a man who made it. A man who stuck two fingers up at convention and made a name for himself as the nutcase from Manchester who took loads of drugs and played Marracca's in the band that was 'Madchester'. If you were there in '88, if your one of the chemical generation, if you wore a mustard yellow hooded top with baggy purple tracksuit bottoms or even if you just like a good story and good laugh this book is for you. Highly Reccomended.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Bez shows us how the Mondays came to be.,
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This review is from: Freaky Dancin': Me and the Mondays (Paperback)
This is the most entertaining and enjoyable read available in the shops today.Bez's life is one of stunning highs and lows and he conveys this quite brilliantly.From his forays in a Morrocan cave to the Free Trade Hall, Bez lets us into his life through his own eyes.Any fan of the Happy Mondays or Black Grape should make sure that they have a copy!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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the E period seen from the eyes of the Mondays maraca man,
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This review is from: Freaky Dancin': Me and the Mondays (Paperback)
Bez - Freaky Dancing (Pan) If you want to read about music and about a particular rave scene, the Mancunian one from the point of view of someone who was on the stage, entertaining the E-heads smiling and hugging each other on the wings of a dove, then this is your kinda book. Mark "Bez" Berry, the Happy Mondays' fandangle in the disguise of a maraca man tells us his story from his happy and rather normal childhood through his difficult adolescence made of jail, hippy like travels through Greece, Spain and Morocco, up to his final and legendary meeting with X, AKA Shaun Ryder, the Mondays' voice. From a first casual gig shaking maracas and tripping on acid, Bez is fully integrated to official member of the band. The travel through stardom is then an apparently easy one, but it is always studded with ganga, acid, heroin, cocaine and finally eckies, those "little fellas" who stole the scene in Manchester. Fundamental are the parts regarding The Haçienda, with its pillars painted in hazard stripes and traffic bollards. Here the reader can get more than a simple glimpse of the Factory stars New Order, while meeting Bernard Sumner and seeing just a glimpse of Hooky. Between a gig in New York, one in Manchester, a trip to Ibiza, a mega festival in Brazil and the final disastrous adventure in the Carribean, the book ends up having the same ups and downs given by drugs, with some interestingly intriguing chapters and some flat ones, shorter if compared to the pluri-detailed chapters of the beginning. Anyway, don't blame Bez for any imprecision, he was probably too stoned to allow his mind to record every detail and to take any precise note of the numberless gigs held by the Mondays. Take this book as the story of "the first guitar group that the new youth can relate to", as Paul Oakenfold dubbed them, a story which ironically ends with Ryder coded message to the Emi suits "I'm going for a Kentucky", never to come back. The Happy Mondays split and recently reunited, leaving a mark on the generation who popped thousands of pills since "it took the monotony out of bein on the dole or sinkin under the pressure of tryin to cope on criminally low wages in a desperate bid to maintain dignity". They were the "24 hour party people plastic face can't smile white out", they left us, but they left us high on pills, surely thrilled and occasionally bellyached.
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