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.
