...Cyprus Avenue, Stimps. Not sure if it's generally known that Ian Paisley lives on the street. (Johnny Rogan spent a whole book trying to link the two old buffers but only came up with a fur hat in common.)

I saw a badger pottering down Cyprus Avenue one evening - a quiet evening, twilight, no cars around just me on the pavement and this badger going about its business in a leisurely fashion. It was fascinating. Halfway down the street the badger turned left towards an old railway cutting that runs parallel with the street (now a cycle path/walkway) and disappeared from view. It was much better perambulating with that badger than it would have been to have bumped into Van (or Paisley). It isn't why, why, why - it just is.

I was at the Free Trade Hall concert on this tour in 1973, he was surly, grumpy and had his manager come on stage and berate people taking photographs of him saying "Van is an artist etc" but the band and his voice that night were magnifico!

http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/quick-van-police-arive

Please show the Rainbow concert on BBC again? I'd be ever so grateful