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Black Grape were a Rock music|rock band (music)|band from England.
Black Grape's music is funky and eclectic, using varied musical instrument|instrumentation and sample (music)|samples. Ryder's lyrics seemed to derive mainly from nonsense rhymes and comedy|humorous catch phrases.
History
The band was formed in 1993 by former members of Happy Mondays, Shaun Ryder and Bez. It was Ryder's first musical project after the disintergration of Happy Mondays due to his multiple drug addiction, and also the other former band members disagreeing about money earned, and was intended as much to be a line between his past life and his new one. They recruited rappers Ruthless Rap Assassins|Kermit and Jed, plus guitarist Wags, formerly of the Manchester based group the Paris Angels. Recording of new material started that year, although the group were not under recording contract|contract.
In 1995 they signed to Radioactive Records (an imprint of major label BMG) and released their debut album. ''It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah''. It immediately record chart|charted at chart-topper|number one in the UK Albums Chart, and spawned three Top Twenty single (music)|singles.
The first single "Reverend Black Grape" even managing to outsell the Happy Mondays cover of John Kongos "(He's Gonna) Step On (You Again)", despite attempts by the Catholic Ch... read all
