FAT TONY

DJ Fat Tony has been described as the closest thing that club culture has to a national treasure. Few people have crammed so many lives into one. When your first line of cocaine is aged 16 with Freddie Mercury, where do you go from there…

I Don’t Take Requests is Fat Tony’s breathtakingly candid and outrageous memoir of a life of extremes, written with journalist Michael Hennegan. From his childhood on an estate in Battersea where he honed his petty criminality, was abused by an older man and made friends with Boy George, to his teenage years spent parading the Kings Road in his latest (stolen) clobber, working as a receptionist for a prostitute, hanging out with Leigh Bowery and Sue Tilley and creating his drag persona, to his life as DJ to the stars and his spiral into serious drug addiction. It is all here in horrifying, glorious, heartbreaking detail. Published in May 2022 by Coronet, I Don’t Take Requests was a Sunday Times Number 5 hardback bestseller, the Attitude Awards Book of the Year and one of Amazon’s Hot Reads of the summer. Out in paperback May 2023.