 Bez – real name Mark Berry – remembers: 'The problem is I couldn't remember the Lord's Prayer, and I got into a panic. But Cliff Richard had just brought out a Christmas single, the Millennium Prayer, in which he sang the Lord's Prayer to the tune of Auld Lang Syne. So someone brought it in and put it on. 'And you had all my mates, quite rough-looking characters with broken noses and all that, standing around my bed singing the Lord's prayer with Cliff Richard. It was the funniest thing.' Quickly turning pensive again, he adds: 'It really was a touch-and-go moment though, I honestly thought I was about to die. 'It makes you appreciate life. You never know when it might end.' Bez says his near-death experience made him 'appreciate life' ( Getty Images) The Happy Mondays star recalls the ordeal in his new book ( DAILY MIRROR) It wasn't the only surreal moment from inside the Edinburgh hospital where, at the time unbeknown to fans outside, he was having multiple organ and heart failures and at one point was even given the last rites. The dancer is now revealing the drama for the first time in his new autobiography, Buzzin'. After he contracted the MRSA superbug which plunged him into a coma for a month, one night his then girl){kind=link}
Happy Mondays’ Bez, who’s real name is Mark Berry, has revealed for the first time he suffered multiple organ and heart failures and nearly died in the 1999 motorbike crash
It’s a memory that makes Bez both shudder with fear and cackle with laughter, an occasion he describes as both “a really big turning point” and “a real comedy moment”.
It was November 1999 when the Happy Mondays legend, famed for his maraca shaking and wild dancing, thought his time was up after a horrific motorbike smash left him in intensive care with broken bones and a punctured lung, fighting for his life.
Doctors had called family and friends into hospital telling them he wasn’t going to make it through the night, and the famous hellraiser decided to make his peace with God and recite the Lord’s Prayer.
Bez â real name Mark Berry â remembers: “The problem is I couldn’t remember the Lord’s Prayer, and I got into a panic. But Cliff Richard had just brought out a Christmas single, the Millennium Prayer, in which he sang the Lord’s Prayer to the tune of Auld Lang Syne. So someone brought it in and put it on.