Elmer Gantry

It seemed like it was real and it was going to happen.

And he said, I'll be in touch before we all go to the States.

We've just been offered this.

It's fantastic.

Do you want to get involved?

He was a great pianist when he was sober, but he was rarely sober.

It was all supposed to be secret, all supposed to be hush-hush.

And we rehearsed, we rehearsed the set that we were putting together, Stop Missing Round, you know, Rattlesnake Shake, all those old Mac numbers.

We were a bit annoyed that he hadn't come down to rehearsals, but I don't think the plan was ever for him to travel with us.

I thought Mick would be going first class under his own steam, you know.

Everything was discovery.

New, discovery, exciting.

I mean, it was one of those things that when you're sort of 14 or 15, you know, it's like, I want to have a hit record.

I want to tour America.

It was rammed.

Absolutely rammed.

Right, where's Mick?

We said, well, where is he?

Cliff said he's not coming, he's not here.

We said, well, cancel the gig then.