The One And Only Peter Perrett



Peter Perrett, former singer and songwriter with legendary band The Only Ones, remains a shadowy figure on the UK music scene. Like Syd Barrett before him, he has spent many years in self-imposed seclusion and gloom, in Perrett's case lost in haze of heroin addiction. Nina Antonia covers the whole story from Perrett's spoilt childhood, his tentative steps into drug dealing and final collapse into addiction. In between time he formed The Only Ones in the mid-seventies and recorded three classic, highly acclaimed albums, his most famous song Another Girl, Another Planet, regularly featuring in lists of the best singles ever made. ISBN: 0946719 16 0 224 pages - illustrated - Paperback		THE ONE AND ONLY Peter Perrett - Homme Fatale Nina Antonia "A drug counsellor and the author of In Cold Blood (Johnny Thunders biography) Antonia is the ideal chronicler of Perrett's rise and fall. From his time as drug dealer, to the smack sojourn in The Only Ones, Perrett's tale is one of self-abuse and staggering selfishness. Antonia's interviews reveal an individual in a twilight of sex, drugs and narcissism." Select "Explains the overriding themes of addiction, infidelity and indolence that typified brilliant new wave magicians The Only Ones.That band's legendary untogetherness, added to Perrett's vocal delivery and CBS' inability to impose a direction, conspired against longevity; after just three albums, Peter and his wife Zena enter the heroin twilight zone for 15 years. Antonia gets everyone's co-operation and never loses her perspective on Perrett." Mojo
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