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Screamin' Jay Hawkins begins his first UK tour with a show at The Town Hall, Wallington.Full article:
Bill Millar (audience) : Hawkins was never in better form: he ran on and off stage, did the splits, played piano, waved his cloak like a rabid bullfighter and screamed a slew of rock'n'roll classics for well over an hour. Sadly, the louder his fans cheered, the more the locals booed.
They came to the Town Hall every Tuesday to get pickled and practice their chat-up lines to the strains of Freddie And The Dreamers or Dave Berry And The Cruisers. They certainly didn't want anyone to complicate things by putting on a show. Eventually, fighting broke out and we escaped via the dressing room and car park, skulking along in the dark behind the former Golden Gloves middle-weight. I don't think Jay was quite so wild again, but elsewhere audiences were ecstatic.
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They came to the Town Hall every Tuesday to get pickled and practice their chat-up lines to the strains of Freddie And The Dreamers or Dave Berry And The Cruisers. They certainly didn't want anyone to complicate things by putting on a show. Eventually, fighting broke out and we escaped via the dressing room and car park, skulking along in the dark behind the former Golden Gloves middle-weight. I don't think Jay was quite so wild again, but elsewhere audiences were ecstatic.
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