Shaun Ryder: rough edges and sudden tenderness
Summer 1995, and Shaun Ryder was in reinvention mode — a new album just finished in LA, a fresh flat in Hampstead, and the wild years he kept insisting were behind him. He turned up to Smash Hits the way he always did: loud, blunt and disarmingly honest.
“Cheeky bastard! Whoever’s been saying that don’t know anything about clothes, man.”
“We've done that, we're moving on now.”
“Liam. He's OK, Liam, he's a good lad.”
“I'd snog her though.”
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Originally published in Smash Hits, August 2-15 1995 (from page 71). The scan below is hosted by the Internet Archive.
