Shaun ryder autobiography examples
The raw, undiluted autobiography of a true rock star whose music and antics inspired a generation of hour party people.
The raw, undiluted autobiography of a true rock star whose music and antics inspired a generation of hour party people..
Book review: Shaun Ryder's life-story
Twisting My Melon:
Shaun Ryder The Autobiography (Transworld, £18.99)
WITH the fallout of the literally sex n drugs rock n roll lifestyle every proper rock star craves laying Shaun Ryder pretty low a few years back, it’s good to see him step on into a new phase.
Who’d have predicted 20 years ago that the Salford wild boy would have ended up a hero of reality TV show I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here?
Or that he’d be content to leave the drugs and partying behind for a contented family life and the promise of his first-ever solo album in 2012?
Well, maybe we should have.
If there’s one thing Ryder’s life-packed autobiography proves, it’s that he’s a survivor.
A tough childhood where he loved to steal and make cash rather than go to school where he didn’t learn much, meant he seized the mad-for-it life as a rock icon as Happy Mondays frontman in the Madchester era with both hands.
But there’s so much going on in this life story that