Never one to submit to life's airs and graces, the memoir, written with Sunday Times Style's Michael Hennegan, promises to offer an unpolished - at times, heartbreaking - account of the DJ's life over the years.

Everyone loves a memoir, especially one where the details are extra juicy, offering the latest in fashion gossip. This book really opened my eyes on so many issues, and I felt very emotional at several points hearing his stories. I strongly advise you read this book' TRACEY EMIN As one of club culture's most notorious - and best loved - figures, Tony is a complete force of nature. I strongly advise you read this book' TRACEY EMINAs one of club culture's most notorious - and best loved - figures, Tony is a complete force of nature. It is genuinely hard to believe the man is still alive after his exploits and he is brutally honest about his past but what he has been able to overcome is simply amazing.DJ Fat Tony has been described as ‘the closest thing that club culture has to a national treasure’ and the ‘unlikely cult hero of quarantine’. The Soho of now seems sedate, gentrified and pastiche in comparison to that of the 1980's, which saw Fat Tony start on his journey as a DJ. Completely recommend, although it deals with some very dark subject matter and is incredibly sad in parts it is also hilariously funny and uplifting. I laughed out loud, I cried, I re listened to some chapters which really resonated (and struck a nerve, and I’ll probably listen to it again! This is a highly enjoyable audiobook, I met Tony numerous times in the early 90’s when I worked at Sony.

He spent his teenage years parading the Kings Road in his latest (mostly stolen) clobber, worked as a receptionist at a brothel, hung out with Leigh Bowery and Andy Warhol, and created his drag persona, before becoming DJ to the stars (including Prince and Madonna) and spiralling into a life-threatening drug addiction. Firstly I’m glad that no matter how Tony tried to self sabotage, that the universe had a different purpose for him - to share his story. As well as his drug addiction, Tony talks about other elements of his life that he was dealing with too. I admire his bravery in writing such an unvarnished memoir and not hiding or minimizing events in which he was less than kind.From Freddie Mercury giving him his first line of cocaine in Heaven nightclub to starting a DJ duo ‘Fat Moss’ with Kate Moss, his stories are so captivating.

Here he tells the most extraordinary stories of depravity and hedonism, of week-long benders and extreme self-destruction—and of recovery, redemption, friendship and the joy of a good tune. Around a third of the way through I was losing interest in his hedonistic stories which all started to sound similar.

Anyone can get a party started, but no one keeps it going like Fat Tony, the energy never dips and what a life he’s lived.