Peter Perrett is an English singer-songwriter from Southwark, United Kingdom. Born Peter Albert Neil Perrett in 1952 in King’s College Hospital, Camberwell, London, he is best known as the frontman of the late 1970s band The Only Ones.

Career

Perrett first comes to prominence with The Only Ones, a rock group associated with the late 1970s English scene. He later returns in the mid-1990s with a new band, The One, which features him as singer and frontman.

The One

Between 1994 and 1996, Perrett fronts The One, a group that releases the EP Cultured Palate and the full-length album Woke up Sticky. The band is listed as one of his associated acts alongside The Only Ones.

Return to performance and solo work

After a long period out of view, Perrett appears on stage with The Libertines in April 2004. In 2007, he plays several reunion shows with The Only Ones. He then re-emerges in 2017 with the album How The West Was Won, followed by Humanworld in 2019.