Bindon: Fighter, Gangster, Lover - The True Story of John Bindon, a Modern Legend

Bindon: Fighter, Gangster, Lover - The True Story of John Bindon, a Modern Legend
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John Bindon is a modern legend. A fine screen presence and a powerful figure in London's underworld, his film-star looks, charm and talent brought him worldwide exposure. His story reads like the plot of a movie which Big John himself might have landed a part in. Usually typecast in tough-guy roles, his on-screen persona was chillingly close to the real-life one. Big John's nickname came from his status as a legendary sexual performer, so it was no surprise that his encounters with stunning women, most famously Princess Margaret, led to numerous high profile relationships. But most of all, Big John was a warm-hearted, complex man, utterly devoted to those who have him respect and always prepared to be the last line of defence to those closest to him. He emerged from a poor, working class London childhood and fraternised with the Krays and the Richardsons, but eventually turned his back on crime to play major parts in films such as Mick Jagger's Performance, «The Who's Quadrophenia» and Michael Caine's «Get Carter». This is the a truly moving book, as powerful as The Guv'nor, about a man who was many different things to many people, but never anything but himself.

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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

Copyright

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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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