"I’m in one hell of a mess: I’ve been caught in a toilet."

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Heinz says that sometimes the audience were chanting “OFF” before he even got onto the stage and from there on things got worse: “I was playing Birmingham and getting blokes running down the aisle wanting to jump onstage to thump my head in, throwing cans of beans and covering the group in beans. On that same tour we played Colston Hall, Bristol and my mother came down from Southampton. She was sat upstairs. She came backstage in tears. She could hear the blokes behind her: ‘We’re gonna ’ave ’im now, the bastard, we’re gonna ’ave ’im. Wait round the back.’ My mother’s sitting there listening to it! Imagine how she felt with Teds running up, grabbing the microphone stand off the stage, trying to pull it off me and hit me with it. And Gene Vincent came up to me before that tour ended and said, ‘You’ve got some bloody guts, I would have walked off after one number.’”