Bez got married in the summer to Firouzeh Razavi, an Iranian-British musician 23 years his junior, and it may not surprise you to hear that the wedding got rather out of hand. “The father lost control of his church at one point. It got a bit rowdy in there,” Bez says with a grin. There must have been plenty of mad-fer-it guests, I say. “Yeah, and myself of course. Leading everyone on.”
As chief freaky dancer, maraca-botherer, party starter and drug dealer for the Happy Mondays and then Black Grape, Bez has been leading everyone on for more than 30 years. Shaun Ryder, the singer for both bands, with whom Bez has been in a “sexless marriage” since their youth, was lined up as best
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