“Given his notoriously ruinous lifestyle, Peter Perrett’s 2017 solo debut, How the West Was Won, was a remarkably coherent record. Almost four decades after the Only Ones’ acrimonious dissolution, finally clean after years of heroin and crack addiction, and backed by his sons Jamie (guitar) and Peter Jr (bass), Perrett showed he still had a way with a drawled melody, even if his ruminations on Kim ”
“You wait forty years for a bus and two turn up at once. When Peter Perrett returned from oblivion in 2017 with How the West Was Won, just as surprising as the album’s actual arrival was quite how good it actually sounded. Following the disintegration of the Only Ones in 1980, Perrett withdrew into the addictions that would subsume his life for decades. There was a rickety comeback tour, a side pro”
