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

Author: Tony Marnoch, Michael Hennegan

Narrator: Tony Marnoch

Unabridged: 6 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Coronet

Published: 05/26/2022


Synopsis

The outrageously candid memoir from club culture's most beloved - and notorious - DJ, Fat Tony.

As one of club culture's most notorious - and best loved - figures, Tony is a complete force of nature.
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.

'This is a story that should never have been told' KATE MOSS
'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. I wouldn't be without this c*nt.' KELLY OSBOURNE
'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.' ELTON JOHN & DAVID FURNISH

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'. 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. 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.

Now, he is 14 years sober and, alongside working to help others overcome addiction, DJing for everyone from Elton John to Louis Vuitton and the Beckhams - and running one of lockdown's most popular Instagram accounts with its wickedly funny memes.

It is all here in horrifying, glorious, heart-breaking detail.

(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

About Tony Marnoch

Fat Tony - real name Tony Marnoch - is the 16-years sober DJ who first found fame on the London social scene in the 1980s as a DJ, best mate of Boy George, and any other name you might want to mention from the time. He has played for everyone from Prince to Madonna, and club-hopped his way through the '90s with friends such as George Michael, Neneh Cherry and Kate Moss. A messy drug affair led to a spell in rehab, and he has since enjoyed a renaissance in life, becoming one of fashion's favourite acts as Vogue's resident DJ, and Donatella Versace and Victoria Beckham's go-to party guy. He does this whilst being a leading voice on the sobriety scene, an LGBTQ activist and has recently found a new legion of fans through his social media account of irreverent memes, becoming an unlikely hero of lockdown.

About Michael Hennegan

Michael Hennegan is a writer and journalist who was previously an editor at Vogue Russia and The Sunday Times Style for over a decade, and who now contributes to titles such as British GQ, Style, ES Magazine, Vogue, 10 Magazine, GQ Style, Harrods Magazine and Soho House Magazine.


Reviews

Goodreads review by od1_40reads on October 03, 2022

I wanted to read Tony’s book as I was around on the London club scene at the same time that some of the contents of this book took place, and knew Tony through friends of friends from Trade, DTPM, Cafe de Paris etc. It was an odd experience to read passages of this book and remember the people menti......more

Goodreads review by Tom on August 17, 2022

Really glad I stuck with this book. Around a third of the way through I was losing interest in his hedonistic stories which all started to sound similar. They really hit hard at the start, but there's only so many drug fueled tales I can listen to, especially ones where he comes across as a real *ni......more

Goodreads review by Heather on June 06, 2022

I don’t usually leave reviews. I think about leaving them, I even write them in my head and then I just… leave it there and move onto the next. I can’t get Fat Tony’s book outta my head. The first time I read Cat Marnells “How to Murder Your Life” I was the same. I related in a way I never have befor......more

Goodreads review by Rebeccacherry on June 30, 2023

Overrated I was really interested in reading this book as dance culture was a big part of my life when younger. Fat Paul was always considered a bit of a plonker on that scene and it's reassuring to read that that's still the case. I knew a few people like Fat Paul and they are dead so the story of h......more

Goodreads review by Mark on March 27, 2023

How is this man not dead...!......more