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I Don't Take Requests

By: Tony Marnoch, Michael Hennegan
Narrated by: Tony Marnoch
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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.

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.

©2022 Tony Marnoch and Michael Hannegan (P)2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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"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--t." (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 and David Furnish)

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Addiction doesn't discriminate!
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Amazing and surreal story of a completely chaotic life. inspired me to be better and live fully

Couldn't stop listening

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Such an emotional rollercoaster. Laughed cried and dropped my jaw to the floor on many occasions. He truely bares all and so glad he lives to tell the tales and hopefully some heed his very wise words of wisdom as the book closes. Exceptional

What a story

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Tony had been totally engrossed from the start. I cried and laughed throughout this book relating to a lot of the subjects he talked about. It was like I was there with him. What a legend this guy is. So happy that he made it.

I didn’t want it to end!

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Brutally honest, no holds barred and utterly relatable. Thank you for this book.
Loved it.

Absolutely binge listened

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