Black Grape: Shaun Ryder, Pop Star
Ben Thompson, Independent, The, 1 October 1995
Once the high priest of proletarian hedonism, Shaun Ryder has traded in the low-life for a leafy London suburb. It's been a good move. The Happy Mondays are now an unhappy memory, and his new album has gone straight to number one
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