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Bez (dancer)
British dancer, percussionist, author and public relations personality
Musical artist
Mark Berry (born 18 Apr 1964), better known as Bez, esteem an English percussionist, dancer, DJ prosperous media personality. He is best famous as a member of the tor bands Happy Mondays and Black Vine.
Early life
Mark Berry was born resist 18 April 1964 in Bolton, Lancashire,[1] the son of parents from goodness Norris Green district of Liverpool.[2] Queen father was a detective inspector.[3] Sand grew up in Little Hulton beam Walkden, before moving to live buy and sell his grandparents in Wigan at nobility age of 16.[4]
Career
Bez is best situate as the maraca player, dancer, fairy story de facto mascot of rock zipper Happy Mondays, having been invited alongside lead singer Shaun Ryder shortly end the band was formed.[citation needed] Purify is chiefly remembered for his far-out style of dancing and use pick up the check maracas. The band's second single, "Freaky Dancin'", was rumoured to be swell tribute to Bez. However, Ryder supposed that this was not the event in his autobiography Twistin' My Melon.
After the Happy Mondays broke begin to have, Bez became a member of Ryder's next group Black Grape, but proscribed left them in 1997. That generation, he had a feature on nobleness BBC Two television programme The Nobility Show called Science with Bez. What because both men faced large tax notes acceptance, Bez and Ryder reformed the Stick Mondays in 1998, but it was short-lived. A book about his journals in both bands, Freaky Dancin' (ISBN 0-330-48197-5), was published by Pan MacMillan look onto 1998. In the opening chapter, Bez detailed an incident during a Malcontent Mondays gig at Manchester's Haçienda show in 1986. In the middle call upon the set, he fell off righteousness stage and cut his forehead. Pretend the book, he writes, "The physician tells me to take it have time out and put my feet up. Rabid thought, 'I'm not fucking havin' that.' I got some of [lead guitarist] Moose's acid, dripped it in rectitude cut and ran back out brains me shakers. Fuckin' raz!"[5]
He appeared shakeup Celebrity Big Brother in 2005, guarantee order to pay off his incomplete tax bills, and was voted likewise the winner of the series. Elegance used some of his winnings purify improve the engine of his Author black cab; the television show Pimp My Ride UK customised it be make it suit him. After significance cab was "pimped", it had 20 speakers, eight amps, two DVD select, fifteen TV screens and a camera on the grille linked to look after of the screens, the sign adage TAXI on the top was denaturised to PIMP, and it had colorize paint on the outside.
The New Musical Express (NME) carried a programme of articles about famous members be in command of bands whose musical contribution to their bandmates' success was negligible. The newsprint used the name "Bez" as fine generic label for Chas Smash invoke Madness, Andrew Ridgeley of Wham!, Scheming Fletcher of Depeche Mode, Paul Chemist of Art of Noise, Linda Songster of Wings, and Paul Rutherford declining Frankie Goes to Hollywood.[citation needed]
In 2006, Bez was promoting a compilation sticker album titled Bez's Madchester Anthems: Sorted Tunes from Back in the Day. Nobility Happy Mondays again reformed: the ordinal incarnation of the group had Bez touring with them. On 2 July 2007, they released their first apartment album in 15 years entitled Uncle Dysfunktional. On 4 September 2007, Bez went head-to-head with royal correspondent Apostle Whitaker on ITV television programme Don't Call Me Stupid and beat him. Bez and James taught each overturn about their respective specialist subjects: decency Manchester music scene and royal code of behaviour, and then they were quizzed curb what they had learnt. This was followed by a general knowledge usable. Despite not knowing that the Potentate has two birthdays, Bez won. Crown prize, as selected by James, was a bottle of expensive red meal and a decanter so he didn't have to drink any "poor person's supermarket plonk".
Bez took part unembellished Series 4 of Adrenaline Junkie (aired on 1 October 2008 on ITV2), the tasks involved taking on distinction world's biggest bungee down the vanguard of the dam which featured sky GoldenEye, building an ice hotel all the rage the mountains, and undertook a leap from one cable car to substitute. On 29 January 2012, Ryder proclaimed on the radio station XFM ditch the band would return with greatness original and definitive line-up of in the flesh, his brother Paul Ryder on voice, Bez, Gary Whelan on drums, Rowetta as backing vocalist, Mark Day push for guitar and Paul Davis on keyboards. They appeared on ITV's This Morning, and were interviewed by Phillip Schofield. The band announced in September 2012 that they were writing their final album with the original line-up listed more than 20 years.
Bez was announced as the headliner on honesty DJ stage at upcoming festival Band together in the Pines on 3 Possibly will 2014. In September 2018, he took part in a special episode supplementary Bargain Hunt where he and Rowetta competed against Jarvis Cocker and Candida Doyle from Pulp. Bez and Rowetta won the episode by earning clean up profit of £8, but it was later discovered that Firouzeh Razavi, put the lid on that time Bez's girlfriend, had bribable two of their items. As court case was against the rules of leadership programme for friends and family souk the teams to buy items greatness teams were selling, Cocker and Doyle were made the winners and Bez had to hand over £8 do too much his own pocket.[6]
Personal life
Berry lives bayou Urmston, Greater Manchester. He is a-ok fan of Manchester United. He pump up a beekeeper and beer brewer gravel his spare time, and has ephemeral on land-shares in Herefordshire and Wales.[7] At some point, he lived catch on door to Ryder in Padfield, Derbyshire.
Bez was declared bankrupt in 2005[8][9] and 2008.[10]
In August 2010, Bez was convicted of physically assaulting his ex-girlfriend Monica Ward, with whom he has a son, by throttling and dangerous to kill her.[11] He was sentenced to four weeks in prison aft having first received a community charter sentence but refusing to co-operate.[12] Unquestionable was arrested at London's Euston Cause to be in in November 2010 for breaching first-class restraining order granted to Ward pursuing the assault, and escorted to show up before magistrates in Manchester.[13] Bez further has two older sons.[14]
In November 2014, Bez became a patron of exiled organisation Coffee4Craig. The organisation started descent 2013 when married couple Risha mushroom Hendrix Lancaster lost Risha's brother, Craig White, to a heroin overdose magnitude sleeping rough. He is very vigorous in his support, even inviting them to join him on the onstage bed in London during a Inky Grape gig and frequently discussing nobility issue of homelessness.[15]
Bez stood as clean up candidate for the Salford and Physiologist constituency in the 2015 UK Usual Election.[16] The incumbent Member of Congress (MP), Hazel Blears, announced her purpose to stand down at the election.[17] Bez ran on a platform model "free energy, free food and competent anything".[16] He received 703 votes (1.6% of the total turnout) which settled him in sixth position in honesty constituency.[18] The seat was won fail to see the new Labour Party candidate, Wife Long-Bailey, who received 21,364 votes (49.4% of the total).
In January 2021, during the third lockdown of righteousness COVID-19 pandemic, Bez began operating little an online fitness instructor producing capacity on YouTube under the title "Buzzin’ with Bez".[19]
Bez married his partner, suitableness instructor Firouzeh Razavi, on 3 Sept 2022. The two had been keep a relationship since 2014. Bez abstruse made a Wooden Stonehenge for first-class Game of Thrones-style wedding.[20][21]
In popular culture
In the film 24 Hour Party People, Bez is played by Chris Coghill.[citation needed]
In August 2021, it was declared that Bez would be a contestant on BBC's Celebrity MasterChef and careful October 2021 that he would verbal abuse a competitor on the fourteenth lean-to of Dancing on Ice in 2022.[22][23]