THEN: Ryder already had logged a 12-year tenure with the legendarily drug-fueled Factory Records party band Happy Mondays when he formed the Britpop act Black Grape with his Happy Mondays bandmate Bez in 1995. Their debut album It’s Great When You’re Straight… Yeah entered the UK charts at #1.

NOW: Ryder participated in a Happy Mondays reunion in 2007 that resulted in the album Uncle Dysfunktional and another in 2012 that was supposed to have yielded another album by now. He also played a Black Grape reunion gig in 2010. That same year, Ryder finished second to Stacey Solomon on the UK game show I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!. In 2011, he published his autobiography, Twisting My Melon, which is now in the process of being adapted into a TV movie. Last year he hosted a TV series about alien encounters for the UK’s History Channel called Shaun Ryder On UFOs.