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Your evening longread: Shaun Ryder on Covid, alopecia and his former drug use
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An interview with the Happy Mondays member about his Covid-19 diagnosis, alopecia battle and his former drug use.
(Read on The Guardian, approx 12 mins reading time)
To be fair, Ryder seems extremely happy, despite the health woes – of all the musicians I’ve spoken to entering old age, he could be the most content. He even admits to having enjoyed the pandemic year: more time with the kids, mainly. He has six in total but lives with his youngest daughters who are 13 and 12, and has loved the enforced time at home. There has also been a steady stream of collaborators visiting the studio at the bottom of his garden: Robbie Williams, Tricky, Lee “Scratch” Perry and Noel Gallagher have all popped around.
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