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The One and Only: Peter Perrett, Homme Fatale
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The Only Ones, the band too laid back for punk rock, too ragged for the old wavers.

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Andy
Nov 16, 2009 rated it it was ok
Shelves: rock-sleaze
Another Nina Antonia "puppy boy gone junkie" bio, this time about wimp-rocker Peter Perrett whose crash and burn band The Only Ones failed to capture record company or consumer interest. His band was so poorly managed that CBS Records used them as a textbook example on "how not to run a band" at board meetings.

All of this may seem sympathy-generating if not for the fact that Perrett was a detestable snob who got kicked off a Who tour (by Roger Daltrey, of all people) for refusing to speak to hi
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Rebecca
Nov 06, 2009 rated it it was amazing
He loved drugs more than music.