Peter Perrett 'Junkies of Today' 1999
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Is this the most drug-addled band in history?
As 1970s hellraisers the Only Ones reform:
a tale of smuggling, drive-by shootings - and great music
In the back room of his nondescript terraced house in south London, Peter Perrett squints at a computer monitor. He gestures helplessly to his son, Peter Jr, a former member of Babyshambles and these days bassist in a band called Love Minus Zero alongside his brother, Jamie. "I don't have a clue how to work this," protests his father, weakly. His speaking voice sounds surprisingly like the voice you hear singing on records by his former band the Only Ones. A nasal south London drawl, it was perfect for doing petulance or spite or flippant indifference, which was just as well, given the Only Ones' penchant for songs called things like Why Don't You Kill Yourself? and No Peace for the Wicked. "I always flirt with death, I'll get killed but I don't care about it," sneered Perrett, on their most famous track, Another Girl Another Planet, heralded by website All Music Guide as "arguably the greatest rock single ever recorded", and recently adopted by Vodafone to advertise its pay-as-you-talk packages, an unlikely fate for a song assumed to be about heroin.
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Today, his voice isn't doing petulance or flippant indifference, but bewildered middle-aged dad. Peter Jr comes to the rescue, and the screen bursts into life, showing grainy super-8 footage of the Only Ones in their prime, playing live in America in 1980. A startling shock of rock-star hair aside, it is almost impossible to equate the figure onscreen with the figure in the room this afternoon.
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