That changed really quickly, the wind changed when it became both more monetised and more criminalised. As one of club culture's most notorious - and best loved - figures, Tony is a complete force of nature. Knowing that someone is about to bare their soul to the world and air all of their dirty laundry in public, you need to learn to tell them when enough is enough. I’d been in a police cell for four days and I went to court and they put me straight into Pentonville.

Over the years Tony has worked weekly in the Trade lite lounge as well as The Voodoo Lounge and Twisted UK, and has held regard residencies at Crash and Heaven. Sharing memes throughout lockdown, his Instagram account has quickly become a saving grace for his 263k followers. 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. Making someone laugh when they’ve just finished crying is on of the most beautiful things to ever exist”.Tony is open about the fact that he nearly didn't make it, that when in the throws of addiction, there's usually no clear escape route. Oh, don’t get me wrong, we still row and he can still be a c**t, but now I understand the reasons why and can diffuse the bomb in seconds. This is a story of loss and redemption and living to tell all the tales in glorious, funny and often heart-breaking detail, from one of social media's best-loved meme-thieves and the world-renowned DJ.

I actually listened to this as an audio book, but I think reading it may have helped me soak up the experience more. Unfortunately his ego and staggering grandiosity get in the way of what could have been a really interesting and inspiring book.The drugs we were taking were so pure and so free, when you dropped your first E, it was a different form of MDMA.

The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter. In the studio he is no slouch either, and has clocked up big dance hits like ‘Men Adore a Whore’ on Big Life by Fierce Child Collective, and is sure to keep on laying down his party starting sets everywhere from Moscow to New York to Kuala Lumpa.

Further afield he is often booked to play influential events and clubs around the world from New York to Sydney to Greece, and is as embraced by the gay community as he is the straight scene. And I fell asleep in that villa for around nine hours and I woke up to pitch black and absolutely nothing and no one, they had taken everything! I also started to see his vulnerabilities; the sensitive, inner workings of a character that had built bravado, humour and a sharp tongue into an armoury of defence. When the DJ's former partner found him in the back room of a London club that night, he was, he says, 'a zombie, the lights were out and I was rocking back and forth, wringing my hands and chewing my gums. listened to Fat Tony reading this on Audible and whilst he definitely isn’t as polished as other narrators, it was absolutely the best way to hear his story.

Moss would get so sloshed on cocktails in the 90s, he reveals, that he'd have to wake her up while the party was raging. In the pandemic, we were pumped with fear from the minute we opened our eyes to the minute we closed them.VIRGIN and the VIRGIN signature logo are registered trademarks of Virgin Enterprises Limited and are used under licence. I learned through memes that you can make people laugh, and you can change someone’s whole day by just posting something funny. 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. As one of club culture’s most notorious – and best loved – figures, Tony is a complete force of nature. I can’t tell you how much it means to me to be accepted for a lifetime of complete and utter chaos and recognised for a future of redemption.