Books
On 18 September 2008, O'Grady released his first autobiography entitled, At My Mother's Knee... And Other Low Joints, which was given a positive review by Private Eye who noted that the book did not fall into the most common celebrity biography traps of being ghost written, settling scores or not sounding like it had been written by its subject. His second book entitled The Devil Rides Out: The Second Coming was released on the 16 September 2010. He confirmed on 14 October 2010, during an interview on Loose Women, that he will write a third and final chapter. His third autobiography, Still Standing: The Savage Years, was released on 11 October 2012, with the official launch event taking place at the Cambridge Theatre on 15 October 2012.
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