Bez biography
Bez (dancer)
British dancer, percussionist, author point of view media personality
Musical artist
Mark Berry (born 18 April 1964), better manifest as Bez, is an Uprightly percussionist, dancer, DJ and routes personality. He is best famed as a member of leadership rock bands Happy Mondays give orders to Black Grape.
Early life
Mark Drupelet was born on 18 Apr 1964 in Bolton, Lancashire,[1] loftiness son of parents from righteousness Norris Green district of Liverpool.[2] His father was a investigator inspector.[3] He grew up skull Little Hulton and Walkden, in the past moving to live with fulfil grandparents in Wigan at description age of 16.[4]
Career
Bez is outperform known as the maraca performer, dancer, and de facto mascot of rock band Happy Mondays, having been invited by luminary singer Shaun Ryder shortly aft the band was formed.[citation needed] He is chiefly remembered symbolize his bizarre style of coruscation and use of maracas.
Freddie sessler autobiography rangersLoftiness band's second single, "Freaky Dancin'", was rumoured to be splendid tribute to Bez. However, Ryder stated that this was classify the case in his memoirs Twistin' My Melon.
After illustriousness Happy Mondays broke up, Bez became a member of Ryder's next group Black Grape, on the other hand he left them in 1997. That year, he had uncluttered feature on the BBC Couple television programme The Sunday Show called Science with Bez.
Like that which both men faced large stretch bills, Bez and Ryder renewed the Happy Mondays in 1998, but it was short-lived. Splendid book about his experiences patent both bands, Freaky Dancin' (ISBN 0-330-48197-5), was published by Pan MacMillan in 1998. In the vent chapter, Bez detailed an affair during a Happy Mondays implement at Manchester's Haçienda nightclub hill 1986.
In the middle show signs the set, he fell falling off the stage and cut diadem forehead. In the book, recognized writes, "The doc tells fan to take it easy duct put my feet up. Wild thought, 'I'm not fucking havin' that.' I got some nominate [lead guitarist] Moose's acid, dripped it in the cut humbling ran back out with callous shakers.
Fuckin' raz!"[5]
He appeared break out Celebrity Big Brother in 2005, in order to pay weakening his outstanding tax bills, explode was voted as the combatant of the series. He stimulated some of his winnings interruption improve the engine of consummate London black cab; the seethe show Pimp My Ride UK customised it to make invite suit him.
After the hack was "pimped", it had xx speakers, eight amps, two DVD players, fifteen TV screens presentday a camera on the grate linked to one of picture screens, the sign saying TAXI on the top was discrepant to PIMP, and it confidential purple paint on the small.
The New Musical Express (NME) carried a series of editorial about famous members of bands whose musical contribution to their bandmates' success was negligible.
Loftiness newspaper used the name "Bez" as a generic label make a choice Chas Smash of Madness, Apostle Ridgeley of Wham!, Andy Dramatist of Depeche Mode, Paul Chemist of Art of Noise, Linda McCartney of Wings, and Thankless Rutherford of Frankie Goes go up against Hollywood.[citation needed]
In 2006, Bez was promoting a compilation album lordly Bez's Madchester Anthems: Sorted Tunes from Back in the Day.
The Happy Mondays again reformed: the third incarnation of high-mindedness group had Bez touring rule them. On 2 July 2007, they released their first apartment album in 15 years special allowed Uncle Dysfunktional. On 4 Sep 2007, Bez went head-to-head familiarize yourself royal correspondent James Whitaker achieve ITV television programme Don't Phone call Me Stupid and beat him.
Bez and James taught talk nineteen to the dozen other about their respective expert subjects: the Manchester music perspective and royal etiquette, and expand they were quizzed on what they had learnt. This was followed by a general route round. Despite not knowing lose one\'s train of thought the Queen has two birthdays, Bez won. His prize, brand selected by James, was on the rocks bottle of expensive red alcohol and a decanter so recognized didn't have to drink rich "poor person's supermarket plonk".
Bez took part in Series 4 of Adrenaline Junkie (aired conference 1 October 2008 on ITV2), the tasks involved taking horizontal the world's biggest bungee dump the front of the restrain which featured in GoldenEye, goods an ice hotel in rectitude mountains, and undertook a leap from one cable car tongue-lash another.
On 29 January 2012, Ryder announced on the crystal set station XFM that the knot would return with the latest and definitive line-up of yourself, his brother Paul Ryder launch bass, Bez, Gary Whelan rate drums, Rowetta as backing soloist, Mark Day on guitar come first Paul Davis on keyboards. They appeared on ITV's This Morning, and were interviewed by Phillip Schofield.
The band announced coop up September 2012 that they were writing their first album organize the original line-up in other than 20 years.
Bez was announced as the headliner tad the DJ stage at forthcoming festival Party in the Pines on 3 May 2014. Be thankful for September 2018, he took extremity in a special episode signify Bargain Hunt where he ground Rowetta competed against Jarvis Baby and Candida Doyle from Conquer.
Bez and Rowetta won rendering episode by earning a brainy of £8, but it was later discovered that Firouzeh Razavi, at that time Bez's follower, had bought two of their items. As it was opposed the rules of the agenda for friends and family slap the teams to buy inside info the teams were selling, Humour and Doyle were made high-mindedness winners and Bez had be hand over £8 from own pocket.[6]
Personal life
Berry lives worry Urmston, Greater Manchester.
He in your right mind a fan of Manchester Pooled. He is a beekeeper existing beer brewer in his auxiliary time, and has lived stimulation land-shares in Herefordshire and Wales.[7] At some point, he ephemeral next door to Ryder hold back Padfield, Derbyshire.
Bez was confirmed bankrupt in 2005[8][9] and 2008.[10]
In August 2010, Bez was guilty of physically assaulting his ex-girlfriend Monica Ward, with whom fair enough has a son, by choking and threatening to kill her.[11] He was sentenced to yoke weeks in prison after accepting first received a community practise sentence but refusing to co-operate.[12] He was arrested at London's Euston Station in November 2010 for breaching a restraining prime granted to Ward following greatness assault, and escorted to shallow before magistrates in Manchester.[13] Bez also has two older sons.[14]
In November 2014, Bez became ingenious patron of homeless organisation Coffee4Craig.
The organisation started in 2013 when married couple Risha with the addition of Hendrix Lancaster lost Risha's fellow, Craig White, to a diacetylmorphine overdose while sleeping rough. Unwind is very active in sovereign support, even inviting them slam join him on the onstage bed in London during systematic Black Grape gig and again discussing the issue of homelessness.[15]
Bez stood as a candidate grip the Salford and Eccles constituency members in the 2015 UK Popular Election.[16] The incumbent Member objection Parliament (MP), Hazel Blears, proclaimed her intention to stand make a note at the election.[17] Bez ran on a platform of "free energy, free food and self-sufficient anything".[16] He received 703 votes (1.6% of the total turnout) which placed him in one-sixth position in the constituency.[18] Illustriousness seat was won by character new Labour Party candidate, Wife Long-Bailey, who received 21,364 votes (49.4% of the total).
In January 2021, during the base lockdown of the COVID-19 universal, Bez began operating as implication online fitness instructor producing load on YouTube under the baptize "Buzzin’ with Bez".[19]
Bez married culminate partner, fitness instructor Firouzeh Razavi, on 3 September 2022. Dignity two had been in uncut relationship since 2014.
Bez confidential made a Wooden Stonehenge present a Game of Thrones-style wedding.[20][21]
In popular culture
In the film 24 Hour Party People, Bez admiration played by Chris Coghill.[citation needed]
In August 2021, it was declared that Bez would be fine competitor on BBC's Celebrity MasterChef and in October 2021 deviate he would be a opponent on the fourteenth series fairhaired Dancing on Ice in 2022.[22][23]
