Fractured my cheekbone, broke my nose, my eye was hanging out almost. I’m standing behind him listening to what can he hear, where he is in the music and he swings the microphone stand around his head which promptly hit me straight, smacking the foot of it, straight in my eye. Glitter, he doesn’t know how to do a soundcheck, he is doing the show and I didn’t realize it. “You don’t do shows, this is all about getting the sound right, the show comes tomorrow. One guy was called Gary Glitter and we were doing the soundcheck the day before the show about 5 o’clock in the afternoon and I was walking around the stage checking the sound from all over the stage, because that’s how you soundcheck.” Billy Idol was in it and various other people. We were doing some kind of quasi-stage version of Quadrophenia, so it was quite an ambitious project. “Well, we were rehearsing Quadrophenia for Prince Charles’ charity, the Prince’s trust and they sold a quarter of a million tickets for this open air concert in Hyde Park. Roger Daltrey recalls when Gary Glitter almost killed him on stage
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