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Shaun Ryder

English singer

United Kingdom · b. 1962

Born in Salford, Shaun Ryder, 54, left school at the age of 15. As lead singer of the Happy Mondays, he was a key figure in Manchester’s rave scene. The band released four albums before splitting in 1993. Ryder went on to form Black Grape, whose new album, Pop Voodoo, is out next month. He has six children and lives in Salford.

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Question When were you happiest? Time & hindsight read 575 other answers →

When I was 15 and starting my first job as a messenger boy at the post office, delivering telegrams.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 August 2017 source ↗

Question How close have you come to death? Death & what remains read 200 other answers →

I had a gun shoved in my eyeball in New York by a crack dealer in the 1980s. I have also watched somebody next to me get shot in the head in a gun battle – that was in Jamaica in the early 1990s.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 August 2017 source ↗

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