BANDS love banging on about how working-class they are, but if you’re from a working-class background you may wonder what exactly it proves. Here are some repeat offenders.

Black Sabbath

It’s always claimed that Sabbath’s sound was inspired by their industrial working-class jobs, but did it influence the actual content of their music in the slightest? Ozzy mainly sang about bog-standard metal topics like madness, evil and Satanism, and most of their songs have cheesy horror titles like Children of the Grave . Plus they’re called Black Sabbath. If you’re working-class yourself you’ve probably never even considered dabbling in the occult, because it’s silly.

Happy Mondays

Shaun Ryder has shared many tales of his scally youth in Manchester, usually involving drugs and ‘robbing’. He’s me

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