Henry Zebrowski

He said he dedicated himself from that point forward to becoming physically fit, and he became well known for constantly riding his bicycle around Leeds.

This is also around the time that Jimmy Savile developed an all-consuming obsession with money, and he was constantly on the lookout for the best ways to exploit people while distracting them with his increasingly odd mannerisms.

Now, Jimmy's main black market business was selling scrap metal.

This, as we all know, is just about the lowest rung on the criminal ladder.

A lot of shit can be stolen and sold for scrap.

I'm sure you guys have sold stolen stuff and sold it to the scrap metal yard, right?

No, I've never done scrap meddling, no.

Really?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I still got a big scar from a piece of scrap metal.

But at the same time that Jimmy was doing scrap metal, he was also helping out his father, Vince, with Vince's forays into the black market, like gambling or selling bootleg cigarettes.

Savile would refer over the years to having a few quote-unquote business partners during this period of time who helped him earn the modern equivalent of $2,500 a week on the black market.

But Savile was on the lookout for a career outside of scrap metal and gambling.

So he asked himself, what do I like?

And after spending so much time at the Mecca Locarno dance hall, the answer Jimmy came up with was he liked girls, music, and dancing.

So Saville got himself into the entertainment business by hosting dances as a DJ starting in the late 1940s.

Now, interestingly and somewhat annoyingly, Jimmy Saville actually was one of the originators of live DJing.

It's fascinating.

Yeah.

While every other dance had live bands, Savile got the idea of just playing records through a jerry-rig sound system starting somewhere in the mid to late 1940s.