I Am the Voice Left from Drinking

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This is the brutally honest journey of an artist who made it from the suburbs to the top of the music charts, graced the covers of every music magazine, hosted television shows, lived the rock 'n' roll dream and is still alive to talk about it. After forming his first band as a teenager with Sean Kelly, James Freud found big fame a few years later when they teamed up again in the Models, one of the most memorable Australian pop bands of the 1980s. Freud did the whole sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll thing - from shooting up morphine he stole from a bin outside a doctor's surgery, to gigging with criminals, to stealing Fleetwood Mac's cocaine, to making an album with Gary Numan, to trying to jump off a hotel roof in London and looking down the barrel of Chopper Reid's gun. He hung out with Robert Smith and Siouxsie Sioux in London and Robert Maplethorpe in New York, he once hit Elvis Costello, toured with Kylie Minogue and got drunk with Tommy Lee. This is a who's who of the entertainment industry in the 1980s, the tale of a man who has seen a lot and wants to tell his story. Freud is living proof that there is life after rock, that not every former music icon ends up like Keith Richards.

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Born in 1959 in Melbourne, James Freud was a well-known musician, TV and film producer, and writer. After struggling with - and losing - his battle with alcoholism, James passed away in November 2010 a week after The Models were accepted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.