Doggen's life

While I was aware that guitarist Tony Doggen, now Jason Pierce's right-hand man in Spiritualized, had also had stints with Julian Cope and Six By Seven, I didn't know he was once pally with the members of Guns 'N' Roses, had played on hit records by Girls Aloud, Olive and Samantha Mumba, and was once kidnapped by Cope, with whom he (like most people) had an, er, interesting relationship...