George Jones, or 'no-show Jones' the country singer, was notorious if he ever arrived and got onstage. At a Wembley country music festival, he said after the first song that he would stay and sing all night if we wanted... after the second song he walked to the side of the stage and gave the sound man such a bollocking that everyone heard it; he stalked off, and I could see backstage that George Hamilton IV, that absolute gentleman, was trying vainly to pacify him.

I felt sorry for his band, who had clearly seen it all before, and just waited patiently, onstage, in front of 8,000 people.

- Ian B