Did you not see the date? If only it were true. Mind you, even Shaun Ryder himself was confused about it for a while and rang NME to ask whether or not he’d told us about it in an altered state, and had forgotten what it was he’d said.
He rang NME & nme.com brand director Steve Sutherland and former NME editor on his mobile – and all this really IS true, we promise.
The conversation ran: “Steve, it’s Shaun. What’s all this about me joinging the fooking Beatles man? I’m getting grief off me manager. i never called you man.”
Steve: “Shaun… it’s an April Fool.”
Him: “(Long silence)… Fookin’ good one man! Fookin’ great!” (Shaun hands over the phone to his manager Simon Moran: “(V sarcastic) Nice one Steve. Very funny.”!
Well we thought so – Happy April Fool from nme.com!