The nightclub kingpin recoils with distaste from the trend for abstemiousness in a 1995 interview
In 1995 I was breakfasting, at 2.30pm, with the "King of the Clubs" at his apartment next to Stringfellows itself. He was in his dressing gown but planning his day. "After this egg I probably won't eat anything again until tonight, at my club," he noted. "In the evening my girlfriend will be at a debate in Greenwich called 'Rock Girls and Bisexuality' or something. Which is annoying me because we dine at 10pm but she can't make it until 11."
A rather stern phone call followed in which he exclaimed: "Two ballerinas are coming!" and "I won't be eating again at 4.30am tonight, Frisbee. Because I need to be in bed at 4am. Why? Because I'm debating at the Cambridge Union tomorrow."
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