Trailblazing Smokin' Jo knows the highs of DJing as I do... and the crushing lows
Evening Standard|May 15, 2024
I'M not being funny but... I can't believe it's been two years since my life was changed forever. On May 22 2022, I released I Don't Take Requests and it went to the top of the Sunday Times bestseller charts.
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Trailblazing Smokin' Jo knows the highs of DJing as I do... and the crushing lows

I never imagined that my memoirs could ever be successful. I never imagined my story, with my trauma would resonate with so many people. I wrote it thinking "if this could help just one person, then I'll be happy".

Well to this day, I still get a dozen messages a day and I am so humbled. While writing it, I often wondered if I should really share every single little detail. When I handed in the manuscript those thoughts took over my entire body. I was petrified people wouldn't get it, that they wouldn't get me. It's safe to say I am so happy I ended up doing it. I'm already working on book two. I can't give much more than that but it won't be an autobiography. That's all I'm saying.

In '92 she was dubbed DJ Mag's best DJ in the world -to this day she's the only woman to have been so

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