01-09-2009, 10:58 PM
Paul Rigby Wrote:http://homepage.ntlworld.com/carousel/pob18.html
The Simon Dee Show
Recorded: 07/Feb/1970
Transmitted by: London Weekend Television Colour 08/Feb/1970 (11:25pm-12:15am)
A guest appearance on the 4th edition of Dee's new Sunday night talk-show series for London Weekend Television (Dee had previously worked for the BBC). John and Yoko also brought along Michael 'X' for the ride, but sadly this TV appearance almost certainly no longer exists in visual form (the image [align=left] is just a photograph snapped during the interview).
The James Bond actor George Lazenby was Dee's opening guest and it was alleged that he had been high on LSD during his interview which he turned into a discussion about the questions surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy a little over 6 years earlier.
Dee's employer's were said to have been furious at what had been broadcast (it was not live) and the incident is chiefly blamed for Dee's swift demise after the series ended in the summer. Having already burned his bridges with the BBC, Dee had nowhere else to go and one of Britain's most popular TV personalities of the late 1960's was never to be seen on TV again.
An interesting figure, Michael ‘X’.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_X
Quote:Extract from: Michael X's black power plays: Nicholas Blincoe reviews Michael X: A Life in Black and White by John Williams
By the time he [Rachman] arrived in London, he was a man of gargantuan appetites, who became a key figure in two major scandals: the slum landlord business and the Christine Keeler episode.
Rachman recognised a kindred spirit in Michael de Freitas, a merchant seaman and pimp who had become an organiser in the black community thanks to the financial support of Yehudi Menuhin's sister.
Rachman persuaded him to switch sides and work for him as a rent collector. This became the pattern over de Freitas's career: community projects funded by rich liberals degenerated into fronts for crime, with Michael providing security for rock concerts and drug dealing.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books...plays.html