More and more, it seems like David Gedge was lucky to get punched

It really doesn't bear thinking about: Alex James and Courtney Love were, briefly, the sort of rock power couple you read about in magazines:

"She liked my shirt and gave me her phone number. I thought about it and called her.

"I wondered what booze to take to her house and settled on a magnum of rose champagne. We drank it quickly and straight from the bottle."

At this point in the story, we make our excuses and leave. Leave, to go and scrub our imagination's eyeballs clean.