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The Happy Mondays acted and sang in Malcolm McLaren's musical Christmas story charting the history of London's Oxford Street. Playing a gang of Victorian thugs, they sing their cover of The Bee Gees 'Staying Alive'. Produced by Andy Harries (Cold Feet & The Queen), other actors included Kirsty McColl, the daughter of Salford-legend Ewan McColl, The Pogues, Tom Jones, Rebel MC, John Altman and Sinead O'Connor. (25 Dec 1991)
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With the Happy Mondays, tales of brawls, late-night parties and drug binges often overshadowed their head-bobbing music. They had a reputation as a thuggish lot, and on occasion, they brought out the violent side of the late-'80s/early-'90s rave culture.
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Whatever it says on the cover, this isn't really a Happy Mondays record. If you take non-musician Bez out of the equation, more than half the original line-up is missing. The most significant absentee is guitarist Mark Day, whose playing was the spiciest sonic ingredient in the Mondays' potent stew of funk, acid house, indie and psych-rock. Ask your bedroom-guitarist mate to play "Kinky Afro"; he can't, because Day made sounds not heard from a six-string before or since.
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