One of the UK's most notorious ravers has claimed fans offer him drugs when he's out shopping.
Shaun Ryder, 59, revealed the story in his new autobiography Shaun Ryder: How to Be a Rock Star.
Shaun is most famous for being lead singer of 80s and 90s rock bands Happy Mondays and Black Grape.
Shaun wrote: "I still get people coming up to me in Asda or TK Maxx offering me a line, for f***'s sake. 'I'm nearly 60, mate, and you really think I want to do a line in TK Maxx on a Tuesday afternoon?'."
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'Still' suggests encounters with the offer of payment-free powder are not strange to Shaun.
He wrote: "Sometimes I'll just laugh, sometimes it winds me up - it depends what mood I'm in."
Shaun co-features on Celebrity Googlebox with former band-mate Mark Berry, 57 and better known as Bez.
The dangerous duo once took acid for over a year and blew the money given to them to record a Caribbean album on cocaine.
Shaun has been clean from cocaine, heroin, and weed with the help of wife Joanne for decades despite his reputation.
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"In the end it wasn't any fancy rehab that got me clean.
"I stopped taking cocaine, methadone, and weed, and even stopped drinking for a while."
But the years of substance abuse has had a lasting effect on the Happy Mondays frontman.
"I was completely straight, and started doing a lot of thinking . . . 20 years of life that I didn't really have feelings about because I was anaesthetised by heroin," he wrote.
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"I then had to try and process all this s**t. It was like fast-forwarding through 20 years of feelings.
"I was all over the place - up and down like a f***ing yo-yo.
"I felt like a ball in a mental pinball machine."
Shaun is even unable to remember the moment he walked onto one of the worlds most famous stages: Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage.
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He said: "It would be great to have a picture-perfect memory of what it was like to walk out on stage at Glastonbury in 1990, or headlining the Maracana stadium in Rio, but I can't remember much about it.
"My memory is not helped by the fact that I spent half the weekend in the baggage hold of the tour bus, smoking gear. I remember that."
"And I remember getting off at our hotel with a girl I'd met on Top Of The Pops. I just don't remember walking on to the Pyramid Stage for our headline set."
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