“Any drug coming along, I’d take. It wasn’t a self-destruct thing. It either closed the door on my mind or opened one up”: The wild life and drunken times of cult rock’n’roll pirate king Tyla J Pallas

Dogs D’Amour posing for a photograph in 1989.

Cult rock’n’rollers Dogs D’Amour emerged from the scuzz of late 80s London like a bunch of rock’n’roll vagabonds. For frontman and pirate-in-chief Tyla, it was the start of a journey that saw him become rock’s own answer to Charles Bukowski. In 2011, he sat down with Classic Rock to look back over his unique career.