I Don't Take Requests: WINNER OF THE ATTITUDE AWARD 'If you want to change your life...read this book.' TRACEY EMIN

Product Information

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'.

I don’t care if my followers are going down, I’ve learned to keep it in the day and make sure today is fucking great. 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.

Following personal problems resulting from his numerous addictions, Fat Tony decided to give up drugs cold turkey, spending six months in rehab to beat the affliction. I actually listened to this as an audio book, but I think reading it may have helped me soak up the experience more. It’s definitely an entertaining read, and for anyone interested is a history of the London gay-club scene through the 80s, 90s, and 00s. And I’d helped her go and see her children and that, and he told me to wait, and he got me a mobile phone. My mum and dad grew up in the 60s and they were surrounded by lesbian and gay people all their lives.

He reveals that Tracey Emin had predicted that Taylor might pass while Tony was away on holiday, telling him 'they don't want us to see them go'.

Personal and honest, SHOWstudio contributor and fashion's most infamous DJ, DJ Fat Tony has offered an unforgettably funny and real account of his life, the ups, the downs, the good and a bad, all packed into his own memoir. The DJ also helps at Resort 12, an LGBT specialist rehab clinic in Thailand, stating he thinks people in the community need special care. Stevie Wonder was in Café de Paris one night and sent one of his guys over to ask me what the track was. I Don't Take Requests takes its name from the industry-known fact that Fat Tony does not take requests for songs under any circumstances and despite the creative's infamous brash attitude, the book gets brutally honest.

There is nobody in London, let alone the world who has lived a more extraordinary life… his journey from villain to real life hero is one of the most beautiful examples of humanity I have ever witnessed. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. He's an iconic club DJ, the crowned Prince of Instagram and memes, and an advocate for discussing addiction and recovery. You get one little person who wants to be negative and will come up to you, and will ask for house music or whatever, but go away!Tony's antics are the kind that were really only possible in the era just preceding omnipresent social media. Since then he has gone on to play every major club worth its salt, and has held some key residencies all round the country. I’d like to say it was all plain sailing, a Barbara Taylor Bradford-type situation; Tony laying on a chaise lounge, me dutifully typing his dictation.