LOSS, GIVING UP DRUGS AND MEETING SCOTTISH FANS
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Brother 2005 winner Bez and drummerummer Gaz Whelan carry his coffin. Shaun added: “Me, Bez, Gaz Whelan and our Paul, we carried his coffin. That’s who he wanted.
“You’ve never seen anything like it. It was like the Ant Hill Mob out of Wacky Races.
“When they said ‘Get the coffin’, we all went on the same side, then we had to say ‘ You go round there’. It really was a comedy sketch.
“The Happy Mondays guys carrying dad’s coffin was the most ridiculous-looking thing you’ve ever seen but we got it in the hole.”
Shaun made his name as one of the UK’s wildest musicians, fronting Happy Mondays and Black Grape before finishing runner-up on the 2010 series of I’m A Celebrity.
He insists he has calmed down his drugaddled ways after suffering his own health scares, including a thyroid problem that triggered the male menopause. Shaun said: “We’re all a lot calmer these days. I mean, I have a pint and that’s about it. I f you’re not calming when you’re in your
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“As soon as I hit 40, I thought, ‘ This is grow-up time.’ So I pretty much tried to rap it. It took me a good five years.
“My body don’t produce any testosterone. Mine packed up. My thyroid went in my mid- 40s and testosterone really is what makes you a bloke and, when that goes, you are like a woman.
“They call it the male menopause and I went through it. I could have been Shauna Ryder.
“Drug use has got nothing to do with it. The thyroid problems are hereditary – we have it in the family. It’s terrible. It’s like you are a completely different person.
“My memory is terrible. I can’t remember anything. I’m at a memory clinic next week. I need to google my own life just to remind myself of what I’ve been up to.
“I have to use the testosterone gel and injections, which is great because that makes you 21 again. The wife loves it. She’s like, ‘Who’s this young f****** geezer?’”
Shaun is the latest big name brought north of the Border by Dundee- based promoters Events 105, after previous Q& As with Paul Gascoigne and Sex Pistols rocker John Lydon.
Shaun insisted that, despite recent woes, he can’t wait to meet his Scottish fans.
He added: “I love Scotland. I don’t know why but, if you go back to 1984 or 1985, we had a bigger fanbase in Glasgow at places like the Barrowlands than we did in Manchester. Manchester never really kicked off until 1988.
“We were involved with T in the Park right from the start.
“My daughter is called Lulu because I was a big Lulu fan. She worked with Bowie so that sort of inspired it. My daughter’s met the real Lulu.
“I can’t wait to get up to Dundee. A lot of people who do these Q&A things have a script that must be stuck to but not me. People can ask me anything.” of my