The tales of 'no-show Jones' are legendary, and I was privileged (!) to witness one of them once. He came out to 10,000 people at Wembley, and announced that they were a wonderful audience, and that if they wanted, he'd be happy to pick'n'sing for them all night. Some promise - two songs in, he gave the sound engineer a bollocking through the PA, stormed off, and had to be fed several large drinks before he agreed to go back on again... I was lucky enough to have a view of the backstage area, and seeing the organisers and compere pleading with their headline star to go back on was more entertaining than the rest of his show.

- Ian B