Fact #161768
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Rock entrepreneur Kit Lambert, who managed The Who and founded Track Records, dies in London, England, UK, Europe, from a brain haemorrhage caused by falling down a flight of stairs at his mother’s home.Full article:
Simon Napier-Bell (rock manager) : I saw him just a few days before he died. We were at this club, Yours And Mine, which was the great showbusiness seedy gay club in London. For three or four years he’d been in a bad way. He no longer told the great monologues he once did, and he’d fall into a coma in the middle of his soup – his drug-taking was just in excess.
He’d also been declared bankrupt and he was living on £200 a week as a ward of the court, although he had millions in his bank account. I imagine that he’d get the money every week and immediately use it to pay for the previous week’s heroin. He would also borrow money from The Who, or fiddle his expenses…
But that night at Yours And Mine, he was on top form, shouting over the music about some experiences he’d just had in a railway station in Rome, and how he was going to go and live there in a hotel, it was all to do with his Rome rent boys. He was great. I thought he’d maybe got control of himself again, but then a week later he was beaten up, went home to his mothers and fell down the stairs.
Pete Townshend (guitarist, The Who) : I had even more licence … I felt I could get away with even more … I just took anything I could lay my hands on as a way of passing the time, because I hated the sensation of not being drunk.
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He’d also been declared bankrupt and he was living on £200 a week as a ward of the court, although he had millions in his bank account. I imagine that he’d get the money every week and immediately use it to pay for the previous week’s heroin. He would also borrow money from The Who, or fiddle his expenses…
But that night at Yours And Mine, he was on top form, shouting over the music about some experiences he’d just had in a railway station in Rome, and how he was going to go and live there in a hotel, it was all to do with his Rome rent boys. He was great. I thought he’d maybe got control of himself again, but then a week later he was beaten up, went home to his mothers and fell down the stairs.
Pete Townshend (guitarist, The Who) : I had even more licence … I felt I could get away with even more … I just took anything I could lay my hands on as a way of passing the time, because I hated the sensation of not being drunk.
(Source : not known)