(The following is an excerpt, the end of a chapter concerning Summer revues and touring with Adam Faith.)
Due to her tireless efforts, there had been a great deal of publicity surrounding Adam. His every move was choreographed for this tour and interviews were written for him. He was involved in many photo shoots arranged by his agent and created to instill popular opinion about his character.
One evening, before the show, I waved the newspaper at him as he came towards us. “When have you had time to ride around on horses?” I asked.
He laughed sheepishly. Taking the paper he read out the caption beneath a photograph of him astride a horse. “’Adam loves to get up early and go horse riding’,” he laughed again. Glancing up at Paul and I, he said “I was bloody scared! I’d never been on a horse before! It’s all supposed to build this appealing image to make the girls go crazy.”
And crazy they were. Every night, outside the theatres we toured in with Adam, there were crowds of girls gathered. Shouts rang out, “We want Adam! We want Adam!” After the show, he would be mobbed again by crowds at the stage door. He hated it, so we devised a plan to get him out each night, unnoticed. We had a large basket, a skip, we used for transporting all the puppets, props and costumes. Between Paul and I and anyone else we could rope in, we had him bundled into the skip and carried him out to waiting transport without anyone being the wiser.
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Cited 17/6/2013 . Adam Faith article, Brighton Hippodrome appearance.
www.hippodromebristol.co.uk/page9.html (Scroll down below the photos and view the date.) Cited 17/6/2013
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ReplyDeleteFaith owned a horse, acc.to a veteran horsewoman and he was posing with a horse in the mid-60s.Maybe he chose to hide his riding interests-few people know that Charles Chaplin went hunting:he was supposed to have no time for horses.Riding for men in the U.K. has long had a 'cissy' image.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment, John. This is an excerpt from his first tour in 1960. He may very well have owned or ridden horses after that time--or in the mid sixties, as you mention.
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