Everyone loves a memoir, especially one where the details are extra juicy, offering the latest in fashion gossip. Having discovered drugs when he was 18 and convinced he couldn’t perform his craft unless he was high, Fat Tony would go four or five nights straight without sleeping, affecting his perception of reality. We’ve heard all about troublesome Tony, but the beauty of this book is hearing about the hard work he’s put into himself and others. I thought he was going to walk off, but then he said ‘oh my girlfriend is in recovery, you might know her’. How do you make light of losing your entire peer group, how do you make light of losing your boyfriend?

To this day, Siouxsie Sioux is the only person to have ever had the balls to slap me right across the face. You may find yourself not liking him as a person as he tells tales of his harsh personality and mood swings. Toward the end, you really feel for him, and some of the final chapters really got to me emotionally. In London, at that time, and in other places around the world - there was so much going on for members of my community. Back then he was playing at the Playground but soon started his own night, Total Fashion Victim, then Jungle in 1985, which became the first place to play garage and house.Now in recovery, this something he is looking back on and talking about in detail to show the grim reality of what can look like such a glam and hedonistic life to those on the outside looking in.

So to go to New York and to have the Avenue 8s, and to have the uptown, and to have East and West villages — it was mindblowing. I picked this book up in Waterstones during a thunderstorm, and ended up reading it purely because I didn't have anything else to do except wait for the rain to stop. He watched his community die around him in the 1980s, he says, and doesn't shy away from the realities of the AIDS crisis, dedicating a chapter of the book to it. I love myself for the majority of the day - I still have self-loathing moments because that's the way I'm wired. Now with an international reputation, he is as in demand as he was when first starting out 30 years ago.The 56-year-old also revealed this week that he is waiting for clearance from the Qatar government for him and his boyfriend Stavros Agapiou to travel to the country, despite both being HIV positive. 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.