Fred Fairbrass has revealed he used to ‘sell speed and coke’ when working as a minicab driver before finding fame on Saturday.
The Right Said Fred star, 68, who rose to fame alongside his brother Richard with the 1991 hit song I’m Too Sexy, gave a glimpse into his life before the band.
The musician confessed that he sold amphetamines and cocaine to ‘party goers and hookers’ during night shifts in 1982 but didn’t think of it as being illegal.
Confession: Fred Fairbrass has revealed he used to ‘sell speed and coke’ when working as a minicab driver before finding fame on Saturday (pictured in September 2021)
In quotes obtained by The Sun from their autobiography Too Sexy: Surviving Right Said Fred, he said: ‘I used to sell speed and coke. I was a minicab driver in Fulham in 1982, and I used to work nights, and a bloke in the house I was living in was an amphetamine cook.’
Fred explained that he first started buying drugs to stay awake during his long night shifts, until he found people who were keen to buy it.
He continued: ‘I worked nights, because the party crowd and hookers were more than happy to buy my drugs. That paid my way very nicely.’
Job: The Right Said Fred star, who rose to fame alongside his brother Richard, said he sold amphetamines and cocaine to ‘party goers and hookers’ in 1982 (Both pictured in 2016)
He added: ‘Although I was driving around with grams of speed on me, London felt quite anarchic back then, so it didn’t cross my mind that it was illegal.’
Fred and his brother Richard shot to fame in the early Nineties with their smash-hit song I’m Too Sexy, alongside then current member Rob Manzoli.
They also had two follow-up big hits with Don’t Talk Just Kiss and Deeply Dippy, while they toured with the likes of Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, and David Bowie.
In August 2017 Taylor Swift used an interpolation from the group Right Said Fred’s 1991 hit I’m Too Sexy in the chorus of her upbeat new track Look What You Made Me Do.
After the song was released overnight, the duo gave their thanks for the recognition – dubbing her song a ‘marvellous reinvention’.
The group were approached by Taylor’s team before the song’s release, and gave their permission for the song to be used.
‘We had people on the phone from the US just checking that we were okay for her to use it and that we were cool with it and weren’t going to kick up a fuss — which, obviously, we didn’t,’ band member Richard told People.
‘When we recorded ‘Sexy’ I didn’t think it would last more than six months. So to be talking about it 26 years later and a star like Taylor using it and being influenced by it is really flattering. Absolutely flattering.’
Oops: Fred added: ‘Although I was driving around with grams of speed on me, London felt quite anarchic back then, so it didn’t cross my mind that it was illegal’ (pictured in 2018)