ALL top stars have their vices. For Mick Jagger it was pussy, for Keith Richards heroin, and for me it’s Haribo. Can’t get enough. No self-control. I’m ranking my top five: 

FIVE: Tangfastics

Controversial, but I’m putting them fifth. Please don’t gun me down in the street like they did John Lennon. They’re too sour, they give me acid reflux, and you try keeping Munich’s Olympiahalle rocking with middle-of-the-road pop when your throat’s burning like shit and every burp’s fire. Vomited up my stomach lining and got rushed to hospital. And you get too many cherries.

FOUR: MAOAM

There’s rock ‘n’ roll, and there are real risks like spearmint Wrigley’s Extra. I nearly choked on one at the Pasadena Rose Bowl. The fans thought I was doing some beatboxing shit on the loop pedal, but my windpipe was obstructed. Anne-Marie had to perform the Heimlich manoeuvre. Maoam? Chewable candy without the risks.

THREE: Giant Strawbs

As the world’s only strawberry blonde superstar – Nicole Kidman does telly these days – the pressure’s on to represent anything strawberry-themed. I demand 500 packets of Giant Strawbs on my rider, and if they query that I up it to 1,000 packets. At Osaka’s Kyocera Dome I opened my dressing room door and they fell out in an avalanche, burying me for 22 minutes and I almost suffocated. Still, worth it.

TWO: Gold Bears

An absolute classic. So good in the Star Mix that they got their own solo outing, like Robbie after Take That or Harry Styles now. I gave packets of these out as wedding favours. Unfortunately they’re highly flammable, friends had laid out a carpet of them as a joke, a stray spark ignited them and flames raced toward me. I escaped with only severe burns to my feet which I blamed on a volcano.

ONE: Star Mix

If number one wasn’t predictable and kind of boring, it wouldn’t be an Ed chart. I gobble these things by the big, fat fistful. The Beatles recorded on LSD but my tracks get laid down when I’m binging on cola bottles, heart throbs, fried eggs and gummy rings. One time I ate so many I overloaded my system with sugar and had to be defibrillated right there in the studio. The doctor banned me from eating them. I ignored him.