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Saturday afternoon TV wrestling used to be such fun.
Simple times, great nostalgia
They did a close up of his eyes once behind the mask and they were bright red. Obviously contacts or too much whisky, but at the time contacts were largely unheard of so it all seemed supernatural.
Well, to an 8 year old that is! And my dad.
Being about 7 at the time (in the early 70s), I'd often fall asleep on the sofas while my parents assisted the family business on the busy weekends and one evening, I awoke to find Giant Haystacks, Catweazle and Ivan Penzikoff sitting opposite me. In my sleepy state, I kept rubbing my eyes in disbelief as I knew who they were but was also aware of the Catweazle TV series at the time.They laughed and Giant Haystacks was such a quiet, polite and softly spoken guy but he was absolutely huge
(6ft 11 and 31 stone). Due to his size and weight, the plastic wall sofa he sat on didn't stand a chance and never recovered its shape again.
The second, a good friend of mine lived above MM near Herne Hill/Dulwich in a nice private block of flats and MM was always complaining about this and that and wasn't well liked there. In particular, he complained a lot about my friend playing music and his guitar but never did it to his face, but to his elderly parents, and one day my friend caught him doing this, confronted him and had to be pulled off of him.
Never in a million years did I think he was like he is in the video, yakking and having a laugh! He put on a great persona back in the day.
What fascinates me about almost all these guys is how different they were in "real life". I've mentioned Brian Glover who was a teacher before he became an actor and writer, far removed from his ring persona. Les Kellett was at heart a farmer, Mick McManus was an expert on antique pottery...
Talking of McManus, the weirdest urban myth I've ever heard - like the one about "Blockbusters" host Bob Holness playing the sax on "Baker Street" - is that Mick McManus wrote the Hawkwind hit "Silver Machine". The name MacManus does appear on the composers credit but I think it was Dave Brock's wife's maiden name. The song is of course about a bicycle, so if it had been written by a wrestler it would have been Count Bartelli who, being a keen cyclist myself, I happen to know was first and foremost a bike rider and member of Crewe Wheelers.
I'm ashamed I know all this stuff...
I don't know if it is widely known but the famous designer Wayne Hemingway is Billy's son.