Fact #157199

Hugh Hopper (Soft Machine) : He (Bob Cope, promoter of the gig) was a great guy. He looked after the artists, buying meals for the whole entourage and taking care of all the trivial things… but if anyone went against him, he dropped like a ton of bricks. His famous catch-phrase was 'I'll sue you'. I heard it ring out loud and clear within minutes of meeting him at the airport, when Noel pressed the emergency stop button on the escalator taking us down to the limos. Cope was bringing up the rear and hadn't seen Noel race to the bottom with his normal giggly schoolboy look. The whole lot of us lurched to a sickening stop and then struggled to stay upright as Noel pressed the re-start button.
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