More old photos

A young Sally 1976

Lavenham 1971

Sally and Gina 1970

Chris and Victor 1971

Chris and Brian Livingstone 1972

Old Photos

Rob and Max Clifford 1971

Way back in the early seventies we played a series of free concerts around the British coast much against the local authorities' wishes. We were arrested a couple of times and spent an hilarious night with the crew and half a dozen friends in Redcar nick which was designed to hold about 6 prisoners, we numbered over twenty!

We had good representation though, managed at the time by Peter Jenner and Blackhill, we'd engaged David Offenbach as our barrister, the wonderful Brian Livingstone was our solicitor and guess who was our publicist, yes, the very venerable prince of sleaze, Mr. Max Clifford who has since gone on record as saying' working with the Broughtons was a nightmare'.
In fact he really enjoyed being on the 'underground' side of the fence as illustrated in the picture above, having driven many miles to our secret camp to arrange further publicity, at which job he still remains one of the best. It was a far cry from the sleaze and smoke filled back room at his city office where he entertained journos with booze ,cigars and blue movies. He's a household name these days, never far away from the biggest celeb stories of the day around the world. But the sleaze is always to be found in his shadow.


I'm working my way through hundreds of old photos at the moment so I'll post more of interest when they are uncovered.

Apocalypse moments.

What would Dad have thought of these days?!

Yesterday, above my garden, the air throbbed with the sound of Obama's footprint. The giant helicopters flew over at a funereal pace and the rest of the sky was also suddenly full off plane lights, no doubt further heavily armed protection for the most powerful man in the world. I looked skyward and wondered.

I was digging my plot while he flew over, ready for a new day.

Today, my son phoned me from the local ad.hoc skateboard park, which the kids have created for themselves in the absence of any other amenity, to say he was with the police and he and several of his friends had been mugged for their phones and the money they had in their pockets. Fortunately, Sonny kept to our rules and handed over without resistence, urging his friends to do the same. They were threatened with a stabbing or harm to their families if they didn't comply.

Climate change?!!!

Surely we owe them more than this.