Fact #155123
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The Who fly from Heathrow, London, England, UK, Europe, to Australia, Oceania, to begin a tour with The Small Faces and Paul Jones.Full article:
John 'Wiggy' Wolf (production manager) : My first memory of the Australia tour was that it was difficult to get them on the plane, because Pete thought he ought to go First Class, so he really put me through it. In fact, they weren't going to go. Pete didn't want to go from the beginning. It was a bit of a job. Kit and Chris, they bottled out and left me the job. To me, it was a great adventure, but Pete, I don't know maybe he got out of the wrong side, after a late night. It was all "I want to go First Class", so I got him a First Class upgrade.
Pete went up to First Class for a while, but he didn't like it, so he came back and joined the rest of us, and after all that, I couldn't get a rebate!
He'd gone up, and got all these freebies, enough to get Keith and I completely pissed. Moonie and I got stuck into the free drinks very early … pus we had our little substances so we were up and we were the only two on the plane who were up and still raving! We were conned rather nicely by the stewardess who we thought we'd befriended and we'd fallen in love with, you know how it is on a plane! Anyway, she took us back up to the galley, because obviously we were keeping everybody awake with our ravings. We went back up to the galley, looking for 'more'...
She came out with some pills and she said, "You look as though you're high", because we were on speed and she gave us these things and we thought, "Yeah, this is happening, she's given us some more leapers!" But they were Mickey Finns, designed to knock you out! So she gave them to us, we took them and I just about made it back to my seat. Moonie collapsed, he couldn't quite make his seat, so he collapsed on the floor taking up the space of the three seats and that's where he stayed till Cairo!
When we got to Cairo, Keith and I wanted to get out into The Casbah and all the nonsense. We were meant to be in transit, but we just sort of wandered out. We got our passports and we wandered out into Egypt, looking around, thinking this is great. We bumped into this voluptuous belly dancer called Samika when we were just outside and I think she was going to lure us off like these two nice young English boys. She signed our passports 'Samika' and her phone number, for when we came back through. Luckily, I suppose in a way, we got apprehended by one of the officials - police or some other official there - and they were talking like Tutankhamen which we didn't understand, and they led us back to the airport like naughty schoolboys!
Keith, John, and I bought some ivory elephants in Karachi. We were just like the classic tourists because everything seemed to be ridiculously cheap. Even with what little money we had, we were able to buy half the continent of India with our meagre handouts.
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Pete went up to First Class for a while, but he didn't like it, so he came back and joined the rest of us, and after all that, I couldn't get a rebate!
He'd gone up, and got all these freebies, enough to get Keith and I completely pissed. Moonie and I got stuck into the free drinks very early … pus we had our little substances so we were up and we were the only two on the plane who were up and still raving! We were conned rather nicely by the stewardess who we thought we'd befriended and we'd fallen in love with, you know how it is on a plane! Anyway, she took us back up to the galley, because obviously we were keeping everybody awake with our ravings. We went back up to the galley, looking for 'more'...
She came out with some pills and she said, "You look as though you're high", because we were on speed and she gave us these things and we thought, "Yeah, this is happening, she's given us some more leapers!" But they were Mickey Finns, designed to knock you out! So she gave them to us, we took them and I just about made it back to my seat. Moonie collapsed, he couldn't quite make his seat, so he collapsed on the floor taking up the space of the three seats and that's where he stayed till Cairo!
When we got to Cairo, Keith and I wanted to get out into The Casbah and all the nonsense. We were meant to be in transit, but we just sort of wandered out. We got our passports and we wandered out into Egypt, looking around, thinking this is great. We bumped into this voluptuous belly dancer called Samika when we were just outside and I think she was going to lure us off like these two nice young English boys. She signed our passports 'Samika' and her phone number, for when we came back through. Luckily, I suppose in a way, we got apprehended by one of the officials - police or some other official there - and they were talking like Tutankhamen which we didn't understand, and they led us back to the airport like naughty schoolboys!
Keith, John, and I bought some ivory elephants in Karachi. We were just like the classic tourists because everything seemed to be ridiculously cheap. Even with what little money we had, we were able to buy half the continent of India with our meagre handouts.
(Source : not known)