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   CLUB SANDWICH 84

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across London, spotted by a scout for Julien Temple while playing a small gig at the Monarch Club. Now here they were: sped from obscurity to a gig with Paul McCartney inside just a few days.
            Life's like that.
            Paul spent a good deal of time talking with the four Spuds, answering their questions, proffering advice when they asked for it, encouraging them in their studies and musical ambitions. When their part was over, they left the video shoot and returned to Ealing with a fee in the post and the chance to write "worked with Paul McCartney" on their CV.
            Video-wise, the highlight of the afternoon was the dropping, some dozen at a time, of 50 wrecked television sets from the eleventh and twelfth floors of Seaton Point, a tower block shortly to be demolished and so virtually empty. Although the sets tended to implode, scattering debris over only a small area, the danger inherent in such an action meant that everyone but the camera operator had to retire to a safe vantage point. (And said cameraman filmed the cascading televisions from behind and underneath a wooden construction.) The sight and sound of a dozen TV sets simultaneously crashing to the ground must have brought a smile to the face of Keith Moon if he was looking down, and it drew a larger and larger crowd of passers-by to the scene. But, again, everyone was well handled by Paul and a couple of good humoured community policeman.
            As darkness descended, and the cold grew even more chilling, director Temple informed Paul that he had completed his day's work and that it was time for Linda to begin her's. Emerging from the Winnebago she spent the next couple of hours filming in a traditional red British telephone box, making a call while being illuminated by candles and pretending to observe something flying through the night sky. She also watched as a young man chased after a girl who had emerged from the tower block. Again, why will doubtless become clear when the video is edited.
            The McCartneys had been on location for just shy of twelve hours when they were free to leave, to wend their way back to a warm hearth. Rock superstardom, McCartney style, doesn't mean endless holidays in the Bahamas - it can mean a bracing day in Hackney. But as they drove away they left behind them a community of well-wishers and both confirmed and new fans, as the residents of Nightingale Estate waved them on their way. Everyone, that is, except for the man from the balcony whose attention remained elsewhere.

Club Sandwich 84