I was the Fool-king of Soho and the number-one slag in the Groucho Club, the second drunkest member of the world's drunkest band.This was no disaster, though. It was a dream coming true.'For Alex James, music had always been a door to a more eventful life.But as bass player of Blur - one of the most successful British bands of all time - his journey was more exciting and extreme than he could ever have predicted.In Bit of a Blur he chronicles his journey from a slug-infested flat in Camberwell to a world of screaming fans and private jets - and his eventual search to find meaning and happiness (and, perhaps most importantly, the perfect cheese), in an increasingly surreal world.