Black Grape - 'It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah'
Shaun and Bez meet Kermit and sing a song about a Reverend. We're not making this up.
After Happy Mondays crashed and burned in disarray, drugs and debt (for Tony Wilson, mainly), few thought that Shaun Ryder would ever get it together long enough to make a comeback. They were wrong. In 1992, barely a year after the final underwhelming Mondays album, Ryder and Bez put together a new band, featuring former Paris Angel Wags and rapper Kermit. But it wasn't until 1995 that the debut album 'It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah" dropped, featuring the rather fine single "Reverend Black Grape". The Grape were basically a rootsier, funkier version of the Mondays, but when Ryder sacked the rest of the band a couple of years later, it was all over. Shame.
Top tune: 'The Reverend Black Grape'
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