Robert Evans

I understand the game.

As somebody who creates shows, I'll even say this.

At the end of the day, when people are at home, they want entertainment.

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So Jimmy is making spare money hustling until one day he decides to go buy one of the big local ballrooms, the Mecca Locarno Ballroom, which is like a dance hall, right?

And he sees that they need work because, again, all the men are gone.

He turns himself into a gopher for the adults in Leeds' vibrant entertainment industry.

The city had recently been nicknamed Britain's City of Sin by one Sunday paper, and working at the Mecca is what gave Jimmy his real education, one that, quote, and this is from his autobiography, qualified me for every A-level that ever existed in hell.

He is not really hiding the fact that he's a scumbag.

Jimmy continues, Not yet five feet in height, as thin as a drumstick, with big eyes, ears, and nose, I was everyone's mascot, pet, runner, holder of mysterious parcels and secrets.

Because I didn't understand the first thing about anything, I was the confidant of murderers, whores, black marketeers, crooks of every trade, and often of the innocent victims they preyed on.

I also played the drums.

And he's, you know, dressing that up to make a better story.

But this is probably pretty accurate as to like what he's doing.

He is he is hanging out with a very bad crowd who are making their living.

Like there's a lot of prostitution that gets run through this ballroom.

There's a lot of like sketchy stuff happening here.

And because he's this kid, everyone's kind of fine with him being in the room.

Now, he is also doing like a formal job there.