Music like Shaun Ryder

Shaun William George Ryder (born 23 August 1962) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, television personality and author who is the lead singer of the Happy Mondays and Black Grape. He was the runner-up of the tenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. Ryder is known for "often witty lyrics". Tony Wilson compared Ryder's lyrics to the work of W.B. Yeats.

Ryder was born in Little Hulton, Salford, Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), on 23 August 1962. He left school to work on a building site by the age of 13, later stating, "It was a different world in Manchester back then. Dinner time was watching strippers in the pub. Bernard Manning would come in and tell some jokes." He claims to have seen a UFO for the first time in 1978.