In a reminder of the best way issues was once, Hollywood A-lister Hugh Grant has reminisced about an early live performance expertise that could not be repeated at the moment.
“I went to an Elton John live performance at Watford soccer floor,” Grant tells the NME. “His supporting act was Rod Stewart and the third on the Invoice was Nazareth. So it will need to have been fairly early.
“Anyway, I could not focus ‘trigger I smoked 20 Gamers No. 6. Keep in mind them? They had been the most affordable fags you might get. I simply felt so sick. I used to be about fourteen.”
The present in query occurred on Could 5, 1974, shortly after Elton John had been named vice-president of Watford FC, who had been in monetary strife. He’d approached the membership to ask if he may assist, and ended up headlining a profit present at Vicarage Street, Watford’s house stadium, to boost funds for the membership. Tickets had been simply £1.
John deliberate to play the present dressed because the membership’s mascot, Harry the Hornet, however was unable to discover a appropriate costume and as a substitute took the stage dressed as an enormous bee.
As for these smokes, the Gamers No. 6 model was launched in 1965, focusing on a budget finish of the market, and swiftly grew to become the UK’s best-selling cigarette, claiming a unprecedented 21% of the UK market.
In 1972, a packet of 20 price simply 21p (then about 50¢), however No. 6’s reign was ended after tobacco taxation was harmonised with the EU in 1978, leading to extra up-market manufacturers like Benson & Hedges Particular Filter promoting for the same worth.
Cigarette smoking was banned in UK soccer stadiums in 2007.
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