He continues to campaign for better equality for the LGBTQ+ community, though he says his own experience of coming out was a positive one. The first thought always gets me into trouble, but it’s the second and third thoughts that I act on today. but Tony says his career derailed just after his 39th birthday, when he a five-day bender left him on the edge of death.

He's still surprised that he managed to turn his life around and credits his ex-partner Johnny for helping him to get sober.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.

We’d met several years earlier when I was an editor at The Sunday Times Style and had booked him to play a party. We were at the start of the Britpop era, and all of these British designers would get sent over to New York and in London we were on the tail end of the new romantics, all of that had just died.It was an odd experience to read passages of this book and remember the people mentioned and places, times that some of the events took place. On his mother reading the book, he said: “My mum knows everything about me, as much as I want her to know about me. Unfortunately his ego and staggering grandiosity get in the way of what could have been a really interesting and inspiring book. I stopped drinking, I stopped taking drugs and I became real, I became myself - I'm doing now what I should have done many years ago. There have been tears, tantrums (multiple), memory gaps to fill, I’ve been (almost) fired at least 76 times – it never happened, loyalty is one of Tony’s greatest qualities – hung up on more times than I can remember, and I’ll happily admit that there have been a few balls dropped on my behalf, too.