Bindon: Fighter, Gangster, Lover - The True Story of John Bindon, a Modern Legend
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John C Bindon & Wensley Clarkson. Bindon: Fighter, Gangster, Lover - The True Story of John Bindon, a Modern Legend
Contents
Author’s Note
Tributes to Bindon. Freddie Foreman (businessman)
Clemmie Simon (Vogue model)
Joe Pyle (businessman)
Terry de Havilland (Chelsea shoe designer)
Dana Gillespie (singer/actress)
Richard Cole (legendary tour manager)
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Acknowledgements
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In Memory of John Bindon, Alan Stanton and Mickey Bindon
Author's Note
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Pint-sized Barry D’Arcy had a lot of affinity with John Bindon because of the numerous playground scraps they both experienced. ‘I used to fight all the time and I would bash up the biggest kid in the playground and that bonded me with John because he could see I stood my ground.’ The ‘spitfire raids’ on other schools continued. ‘We’d all gather outside the playgrounds and then head off in a gang of twenty. Most of us walked home from school so when we went on a raid we knew we had a bit of time on our hands because most of us were latchkey kids. We’d fly up the road in a pack. The element of surprise was essential. As we ran along the streets, our coats would be streaming in the air and we’d be gulping down Tizer, the red stuff. We must have looked quite a fearsome sight.’
The father of one of Bindon’s best friends Buster Crouch owned a river pleasure boat and a lot of the boys sometimes went up the Thames to Hampton Court Palace at weekends. D’Arcy recalled, ‘One time John let a woman sit down on a seat out of politeness and she turned out to own a sweet factory. John was the hero of the day because she sent out huge boxes of sweets to us all at school. That was a real lesson in manners.’ On another visit to the world-famous maze at Hampton Court, Bindon and his friends feuded with a group of older school kids and slipped laxative tablets into their fizzy drinks before they went into the maze. ‘That was hilarious because all these snotty kids were running around trying to find their way out in a great hurry!’
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