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At the height of his initial turnofthe1990s infamy as the maracawielding dancer with Madchester giants Happy Mondays the popeyed Mark Berry forever known to the world as Bez was visibly a danger to society He became the socalled Chemical Generations bugeyed pied piper every weekend leading millions out to oblivion and beyond as they adopted his Egobbling party lifestyle

Neither an accomplished musician nor even a very good dancer Bez was a prime candidate for fleeting celebrity soon to sink into Where Are They Now obscurity That however never happened nor does it show any sign of happening Through Black Grape the second band he cofronted with the Mondays Shaun Ryder and his everpresence in the mass media Bezs popularity has grown exponentially his star rocketing ever upwards

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 His adult life has been extraordinary unbelievable scrapes with mortality periods of financial ruin mindfuck moments like when David Bowie genuflected before him and enough narcoticstrewn hijinx to fill several more volumes of memoir

This is the story of a bad lad who has turned his life good tracing his passage from earlythirtysomething casualty to middleaged politician ecowarrior and beeaficionado