Bonus Episode 13 - Gaz Whelan Part Two: Happy Mondays drummer Gaz on Paul being sectioned, fighting with his brother and battling heroin addiction

On this award-winning podcast, Happy Mondays drummer Gaz Whelan - one of Paul Ryder's closest friends - talks about Paul's battles with mental illness, drug addiction and the traumatic feuding with his brother Shaun Ryder as well as telling hilarious tales from the studio recording sessions of the Mondays' albums Squirrel and G Man, Bummed, Pills N Thrills N Bellyaches and Yes Please with John Cale, Martin Hannett, Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osbourne as well as Chris Franz and Tina Weymouth. He talks of his and Mani's cunning plan to outsmart BBC producers when Happy Mondays did Top of The Pops with The Stone Roses and him and Bez never made it to Paul's wedding, why Jazzy B banned them from a party, what the studio guys said about their time working with Whitney Houston, his bemusement at discovering a home made crack den at the studio in Barbados and the day that Bez got into a fight in Los Angeles. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.