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Lenny McLean was the toughest man in Britain.
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He was a very dangerous man.
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If you can imagine a pot of boiling water
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and it's always simmering,
it's ready to boil.
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The film you are about to see
shows an incredibly violent fight,
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which, for some at least, is entertaining.
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I've heard stories that he
would go up the Camden Palace
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and challenge black belts in this and that
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and he just goes out
and just knocks them completely spark out.
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He is like a dog, he either gets bitten
and rolls over and dies,
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or he is going to come back and bite you.
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Lenny was the man who came back
and bit you and bit you hard.
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If you're losing your temper,
you're capable of doing anything,
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you're capable of murder really.
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There is a lot of negative stuff
said about him.
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If you never met him you would have
a certain way you would think about him
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and the main mission with the film
would be to let people know
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that there's a different side to my dad
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that you probably ain't read
or seen on YouTube.
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I mean, he was extremely,
extremely funny, quick-witted one-liners,
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you know, and you would probably
take an instant like to him.
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The physical abuse and the drinking
turned him into a monster really.
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But I think there is something more
than just the abuse and the alcohol.
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I think there's something deeper, I think
there's something that we've not touched on.
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- Charlie?
- Yeah?
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Probably I've boxed as an amateur and
done some amateur fights when I was a kid
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and I do box and I do love going
to the boxing gym and training, but fight...
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Not really, I don't think it really was...
I didn't really...
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I like fight, I like sparring, I like doing
the competitive side of it, but fighting, no.
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I've got a temper. If someone upsets me,
I've got a slightly bad temper, yeah,
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and I had a problem last year and I went
to prison for having a fight with somebody
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and I was charged with GBH Section 18.
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In the end, I pleaded guilty
to a lesser charge of ABH,
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but I still went to prison for it.
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Going to prison was an eye-opener.
I definitely don't want to go back there.
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So I need to know the truth why my dad
become such a violent person.
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I mean, you've taken a lot
of punishment you've dished it out.
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What's the worst thing
you've ever done to anyone?
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Er, in one of the bare knuckle fights,
I bit a guy's nose off.
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Probably the first time
I see something like that
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was down when we had the caravan.
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All the kids down the caravan used
to drive on these like little motorbikes,
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scramblers, rev-and-gos, and I used
to let all the kids go on my one
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and one day a girl came out,
and she was a little bit older than us,
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I was about eight or nine and she was
about 15 and she wanted to go on my bike
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and I said,
"Look, you've got to wait your turn."
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Anyway, she's pushed me off the bike
and tried to get on the bike
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and me and her started
to have like a set to, like, a fight.
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Her dad come out the caravan
and tried to hit me
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and said, "You want a fight, you fight me."
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Dad's come out the caravan and said,
"No, if you want a fight, you fight me,"
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and then me old man just sort of let go,
I've never seen anything like it.
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Absolutely just annihilated the geezer,
just smashed him absolutely to pieces.
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And the whole place was just silent.
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And as he stood up,
and the man was unconscious on the floor,
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and he stared at me and pointed a finger at me
and said, "See what you have done now,"
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and I was sort of frightened
to get told off and he said,
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"Your tea's cold," and walked indoors
like there's nothing had happened.
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It just sort of was just
like a normal day of someone going to work
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in the post office or a builder
and it was, it didn't affect him.
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And after that, he just went
in the caravan and shut the door
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and that was the end of that.
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Growing up in post-war Britain
in the late '40s, early '50s,
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there was nothing about, no money.
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In the East End, the doors was open,
kids running around outside.
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I know you don't see a lot of it now, but
there used to be stray dogs running around,
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food where they have been pregnant
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and people throwing buckets
of water over them,
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you know, if someone knocks on your door
for sugar or milk or, you know,
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you would give it to them.
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Look, mate, you're on camera.
You're on camera, they're filming you.
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Oh, right.
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What have you done wrong?
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Everything.
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Playing on dumps, bomb sites,
burnt-out buildings,
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you know, that's what you used to do.
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I suppose everything
seemed happy at the time,
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but no one really knew what was going on
behind closed doors.
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No. Well, uh...
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Right.
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This is Geffrye Court in Hoxton.
My dad was born here in 1949.
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This is where my dad grew up
with his brothers and sisters,
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Boo, Kruger, Barry and Linda
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and the Walls, John-John, Sue,
Bill Boy, Kenny Wall and Puff.
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His real dad died in his 20s.
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And then my nan remarried to Jim Irwin
when my dad was about four,
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and I suppose the physical abuse
started around that time.
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My stepfather,
he broke my legs when I was five,
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broke my jaw when I was six,
broke all my ribs when I was seven,
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bashed me right up until I was 12.
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Let me tell you how bad the abuse was.
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Not only was it physical, it was mental.
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They would be hit with belts,
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my dad said sometimes
he'd be home from school,
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be put straight to bed with no dinner,
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and all his cousins and friends
would be playing outside
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and it would be light out,
nice sunny day in July.
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I mean, the abuse was so bad,
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that in the summer, they wore
long trousers and long tops
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to help cover the broken bones
and the bruises.
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And they lived over in here, this block here.
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His stepfather used to bash him up and say,
"I'm the Guv'nor."
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So that would be ringing in my dad's ears
throughout his teens and his adult life.
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And then what happens,
hate builds up inside you
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and you become...
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You hate the world.
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The turning point was one cold winter.
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It was thick snow outside
and Kruger had wet the bed.
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He was only a baby and Jim had really laid
into him, really, really severely hurt him,
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and my dad picked him up and took him
in a, like a homemade go-kart,
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dragged it through the snow, went round
to Nanny Campion's house
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and she just weren't having it,
so she got hold of Jimmy Spinks.
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Jimmy Spinks, that was his uncle,
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Jimmy Spinks was the Guv'nor of Hoxton
at that time
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and he used to mind all the corner betters,
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all the bookies on the corners
that used to bet
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and, you know, he was a person
that you just didn't mess with,
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you know, if you went to have a fight
with him you had to turn up with 10 people.
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Jimmy Spinks, he went round
there with a cutthroat razor,
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Nanny Campion, she went round there
with the old fashioned big glass ashtrays
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and they smashed the fuck out of him.
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And then he just disappeared for two years.
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My dad's relationship to Jimmy Spinks,
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he was probably like
a father figure to him really.
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Everyone looked up to him
and I think he aspired to be like him.
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Because that's the hero figures
you grew up with in the East End,
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you grew up with local villains or hard men
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and, you know, that's the way
they wanted to be in them days.
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Back in the '50s and '60s, in the East End,
it was normal to see grown men
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have a hand to hand fight in the street
if they had some dispute.
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And it was a cultural thing.
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And to be tough
meant people sort of left you alone.
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So Lenny became tough.
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His first paid fight
was around the age of about nine or 10
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here in Geffrye Court.
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There was a bigger kid picking on
one of his sisters
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and his mum said, "You better go down there,
you better deal with that boy,
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"and if you do, I'll give you some money
to go and buy some cream cakes."
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And I don't think he needed persuading
to have a cream cake
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because he did like a cream cake.
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Within a flash, he went down there,
smashed the bully up,
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come back, and said where's his cream bun?
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She went, "I've to go
to the shop and get it."
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He said, "Well, how long are you going to be
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"because I'm going to go bash
someone else up. I want two cream buns."
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She went, "No, Len, only the one."
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I think he probably
had a flavour for it then.
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Obviously, when my dad come out of Borstal,
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things had changed
for him physically, you know.
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Two years in a young man's life,
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changes in your body takes,
it's unbelievable,
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so when he come out of prison
and see Jim Irwin
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and their first altercation,
and my dad punched him,
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he went green and then he knew
that abuse would stop there and then.
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I was going to give him
a strong talking to once,
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but on my mother's death bed,
she promised me,
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you know, "Please, please,
don't have a go at him,"
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and I promised her
I would never have a go at him.
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And I found out about
two weeks ago, he'd died.
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And I don't drink,
I ain't drunk for 20 years,
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I had a shandy that night.
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Hi, Boo, you all right?
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Yeah. How's Kruger?
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No, I ain't rushing you
for the interview, no.
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No, really, I ain't really.
No, look, whenever you're ready.
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Obviously, I'm making sure
Kruger is all right first
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because obviously it
seemed like he was up for it. Um...
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Oh, all right, OK. Well, let me know.
OK. All right then.
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I'll put it in the budget, don't worry.
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All right. Send him my love, then, yeah?
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All right. I'll call you later.
I love you. Bye, bye.
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We were supposed to film
Kruger and Boo today,
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my dad's brothers and sisters,
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just, er, but it's been pretty hard
to try and get people to talk on camera,
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especially his family.
They don't want to do it, so.
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Knock on the door and see if she's in.
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Is there anyone in, Joe? Nan?
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You all right, where are you going, Guv?
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Where is the dog? Come in then, come in.
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How are you, Lyns, are you all right?
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I'm fine, shut the door, Joe.
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Lenny got married at the age
of 19 and my mum was 17.
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My mum, she can remember
walking up the street
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and she could actually see
my dad's mattress on the street,
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so she go to Rose, "What's that?"
She goes, "Oh, it's Lenny's mattress."
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She went, "Why'd you throw the mattress out?"
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She went, "Well, I ain't having him back,
Val, you've got to have him."
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She said like, looked round and thought,
"Let's see what sort of life I'm in for then
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"if his mum's trying to get rid of him."
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Here's Caliban Towers here.
I think we used to live on the 13th floor.
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When they was younger,
my mum and dad used to have,
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because they were probably the first one,
couple to have a flat,
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so they used to have a lot of house parties
up there and they used to get pissed
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and what him and his cousins used to do
is hang off the top,
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13th floor by their fingers, and see who could
hang there the longest without pulling up,
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who would get tired and look.
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So can you imagine hanging up there
on the 13th floor like that,
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freezing cold, drunk,
and see who could stay the longest.
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Now, if you slipped
or made one move you're dead.
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They play PlayStation 4s now.
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Years ago, you used to play
hang off the balcony on the 13th floor.
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Drinking, he probably thought
was a good medication
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to help him forget.
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But what he didn't realise,
drinking was the worst thing for him.
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This is the Lion and Lamb pub.
He literally drove them mental in there.
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He had so many fights here
they had a picture of him behind the bar,
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"Please do not upset this man."
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I mean, this is the pub that he used to do
his party trick as well.
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Remember the old glass tankards?
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He used to line them up across the bar,
get pissed and with the palm of his hand
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he would smash every single one
down in one go.
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His hand, mum used to come and his hand
would be absolutely cut to pieces.
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My mum said that the pub used to be packed,
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she said you would order a drink at the bar
and everyone would be on edge
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and everyone would wait
for him to go to the toilet,
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and as soon as he walked in the toilet,
the whole pub would empty out,
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so there would just be her and him
and the band.
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I think even the barman left.
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And so at the end of the night,
he'd end up bashing the band up drunk.
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People were literally like,
"Shut your doors,"
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and everyone would sort of go inside
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and he would be
like a raging bull in the street.
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In them days, people
didn't report it to the police, did they?
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Just sort of, these lots knew him anyway
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because sometimes they would
ring them up at night and say,
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"Look, we've got Lenny here.
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"We've nicked him for fighting again
and we'll release him in the morning."
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But you didn't have to go through the courts.
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They'd just nick you
and leave you in the cell overnight
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and let you go in the morning
and that's how it was in them days.
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Probably the final straw
was he was out with his mate Jimmy Briggs.
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Well, we're actually in the Spread Eagle now
and it's quite mad
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because this is where he had his last drink.
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Obviously this is where he nearly killed
a man or he did kill a man.
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He'd been out drinking all day
with his friend Jimmy Briggs
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and he'd pulled a bird.
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My dad was sitting there,
the girl was sitting there,
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and then my dad said,
"Come on, we'll go somewhere else."
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Jimmy says,
"No, no, I am going to stay with this bird."
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So the bird turns round to my dad and says,
"You heard what he said. Fuck off."
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My dad told Jimmy to tell her to shut up
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or he would put her over his knee
and smack her arse
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and then Jimmy said, "Don't fucking speak
to her like that, we'll fucking go outside."
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And that's what happened.
They walked outside.
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And he said to him,
"Come on then, I'm the fucking guv'nor."
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As soon as he said that to my dad,
his back would go up.
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He's looking at him thinking,
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"What I've been through, you cunt,
and you think you are the guv'nor?"
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And he would turn into summat evil.
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I think Jimmy threw the first punch
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and then my old man kept punching
and punching and punching,
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till he couldn't punch any more
and broke both his hands on his face,
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which is quite fucking,
that should be brutal enough,
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and when he couldn't use his hands
no more, he used his teeth,
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and he tried to bite his wind pipe out.
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But as he is biting him,
he's fucking consuming the flesh
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and he killed him, Jimmy Briggs was dead.
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They brought him back to life
on the operating theatre
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and I can remember my dad coming up
and coughing the human flesh
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and I could hear my mum screaming
and saying, "Len, Len,
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"that is human flesh you are coughing up
and spitting up,
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"what have you done, what have you done?"
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And obviously, he's gone to bed,
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woke up the next day, heard of what happened,
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and he then decided that enough was enough,
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you know, he stopped drinking.
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What do I think about that story?
Am I horrified about it?
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No, not really, I am not horrified at all.
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If you want my honest opinion,
you know, what do you expect?
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I mean, you expect to get a hiding,
not to get your fucking,
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throat bit out, but, you know,
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that's how we done things
in them days in London.
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Street fighting all the pubs round in Hoxton.
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99% of the time,
the aggravation, he caused it.
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And then, all of a sudden, I suppose,
he thought it could work in his favour.
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So basically, you would go and get kids
starting trouble in all the pubs,
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then all of a sudden Lenny would come in
and give them a back hander
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and chuck them out,
but really, it was him causing the trouble.
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So he would go
to all the pubs in Hoxton and say,
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"Look," he said, "You're getting
quite a bad element in here,"
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he said, "Why don't I do this?"
He said, "Every Friday I'll come down,
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"pick some wages up,
all you got to do is say,
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"'Lenny is minding the door here',"
and he said, "All the trouble will stop."
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I think he thought, you know, "This ain't
a bad way to make a living, easy money.
285
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"I ain't got to get up at, you know,
do a nine-to-five.
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"I can just go in the pubs,
take money off the publicans,
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"eat my dinner in there and go home."
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And that's how I suppose
the door work started.
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Anyone who grew up in Hoxton
knew him from an early age.
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He had a reputation when he was
13 or 14 years old as the best fighter,
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so, you know not to mess with Lenny
because they know anyone mucks about,
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you know, he will just deal with it
in a severe and extremely violent way.
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He was just in there, bang, done, next.
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And if he took a couple
he'd probably didn't even feel it,
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cos he was so in the zone at the time, innit.
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You would see people's faces change
when they give it their best shot
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- and he didn't even notice it yeah, yeah.
- Yeah.
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It's always going to be a worry, innit.
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And these pubs were frequented
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by teams of gangsters
and villains and armed robbers.
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London was having robberies
that were prolific.
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My father was involved
in that sort of fraternity
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and I can remember these guys
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and they looked like they was out of films.
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You know, they pull up in lovely cars
and the old rollnecks on,
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but they were seriously, seriously
heavy villains
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who, who, you know, they used shotguns,
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they went and jumped over the pavement
as they say, you know what I mean?
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They robbed, they robbed banks.
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If there was a dispute, more than likely
someone would come back with a shotgun,
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and Lenny had to be amongst these men.
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So you can imagine,
you can't be some fleeting wallflower,
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you got to be the toughest man there is.
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But afterwards, we was like job's done,
it's finished, shook their hands,
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made sure they were all right, get them back.
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He would go to work being extremely violent
and come home and be extremely loving.
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Two different sides.
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He'd have his nice, stable family life
and us as kids, we just see him as Uncle Len,
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but when he was out in the real world,
you know, his life was at risk.
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I mean, people did pull shooters on him
and they shot him.
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We're in the Barbican where Jovi's
nightclub used to be.
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I mean, it was actually here,
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Jovi's was here, this is how it was,
this is the entrance
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and it was a glass entrance,
the same as it is today,
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obviously it's a Pret a Manger now.
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I think the night he got shot,
Monday to Thursday, it wasn't really busy,
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so he would do the door on his own,
328
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but weekends he would get his mate
Billy Sullivan to help him
329
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and two fellas on a motorbike drove past
and let a double-barrelled shotgun off.
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Billy Sullivan's fainted,
all the girls have gone rushing to him,
331
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but me old man run outside the nightclub,
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seen the motorbike coming past,
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he chased them up the road
334
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and kicked the back of the wheel
and the wheel of the motorbike wobbled
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and he said, "He nearly, nearly fell."
He said, "If they would have fell,"
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he said, "I would have got them."
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So he's gone back inside,
but as he's gone back in,
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all the staff and all the girls are,
"Are you all right, Bill? You all right?
339
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"I think he's been shot."
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And he was sitting there
and as he looked round,
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he could feel all his back of his legs
soaked, you know, like,
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I suppose like when you wet yourself,
but just covered in blood.
343
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So they rung an ambulance and said,
"Len, it's gonna be five minutes."
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So he said, "Five fucking minutes?
I'm going to bleed to fucking death here,
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"so I'll fucking walk over there."
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They went, "No, you can't walk,
we will get a cab."
347
00:21:23,741 --> 00:21:26,205
So a cab driver has pulled up
and he went, "Take me to Bart's."
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He said, "You ain't fucking getting in my cab
you're covered in claret."
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He said, "I've just been fucking shot,
take me to Bart's!"
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Anyway, they've took him to Bart's,
walked in there,
351
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there was a porter half asleep
at the counter like that,
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so he's walked in and went,
"Excuse me, sir." He went, "Yes."
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He went, "You ain't got anything
for two arseholes, have you?"
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And the geezer's seen the fucking hole
like that in the back of his trousers,
355
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blood pouring down the back of his legs,
he's gone, "Aah."
356
00:21:48,390 --> 00:21:51,230
You know, and I said to him,
"Oh, I bet you regret that night being shot.
357
00:21:51,310 --> 00:21:52,436
"I bet you wish you had never went to work
358
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"that night." He said, "No, not really,"
359
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he said, "Because it helped me
sell loads of books."
360
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But I can remember from that day onwards,
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as soon as he went back to work
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00:22:03,697 --> 00:22:06,951
like, I would stay awake most nights
waiting for him to come in
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and hear the door shut
and then I would go to sleep,
364
00:22:08,661 --> 00:22:11,039
and that went on for years and years
and years and years.
365
00:22:11,747 --> 00:22:14,375
You know, so it does affect you,
it affects the family.
366
00:22:33,310 --> 00:22:37,690
Pugilist is a mixture of a Greek
and Latin word meaning to fight with fist.
367
00:22:38,274 --> 00:22:42,245
Boxing is to clench the fist
holding the fingers and a thumb into a box.
368
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:47,953
Ancient Greeks believed fist fighting
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was one of the games played
by the gods on Olympus.
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Thus, it became part of the Olympic Games.
371
00:22:53,873 --> 00:22:56,921
In Roman times, the sport began to thrive.
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Duels to the death were the norm.
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From the Victorian era,
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the bare knuckle disappeared
with the onset of the Queensbury Rules.
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The 10 count, gloves on hands, referees.
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People got disinterested.
377
00:23:17,897 --> 00:23:21,492
It was only in the 1970's
that there was resurgence in interest.
378
00:23:30,534 --> 00:23:33,629
Using a clenched fist
is one of the earliest forms of aggression.
379
00:23:34,705 --> 00:23:38,045
It's as old as running and hunting,
it's as old as mankind itself.
380
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No weapon at hand,
the fist is the best weapon we have.
381
00:23:43,297 --> 00:23:44,298
Come on!
382
00:24:01,690 --> 00:24:05,781
Very different from boxing, you have to
hit the man with the outside of your fist
383
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so you don't break your hand.
384
00:24:09,198 --> 00:24:11,371
And you must control your adrenaline.
385
00:24:20,167 --> 00:24:22,795
In the ring, it's an art form,
it's a science,
386
00:24:22,878 --> 00:24:26,052
and to be a champion boxer
you have to be trained from childhood.
387
00:24:27,091 --> 00:24:29,310
Lenny never had that kind of training.
388
00:24:53,175 --> 00:24:56,795
The first bare knuckle champion
was James Figg in 1790.
389
00:24:57,788 --> 00:25:00,628
Other famous champions
were Jack Broughton, Tom Cribb,
390
00:25:00,708 --> 00:25:03,006
Tom Spring, Jim Wall, Jem Mace.
391
00:25:03,544 --> 00:25:07,390
There are statues in pubs all over
the country named after these fighters.
392
00:25:08,007 --> 00:25:11,181
They were celebrated by common folk,
kings and queens.
393
00:25:17,182 --> 00:25:19,935
You could go to a bare-knuckle fight
nowadays.
394
00:25:24,815 --> 00:25:28,661
I mean, all these guys, they look raw,
they look tough, they look big.
395
00:25:34,950 --> 00:25:37,703
But they haven't got the tenacity
of a Lenny McLean.
396
00:25:37,786 --> 00:25:40,501
They break a finger and they sit down
and they are breathing heavy
397
00:25:40,581 --> 00:25:41,669
and they sit down.
398
00:25:41,749 --> 00:25:45,879
I mean, Lenny would fracture a hand,
break his wrist, you wouldn't even know.
399
00:25:55,971 --> 00:25:57,768
It was on the street in his prime,
400
00:25:57,848 --> 00:26:01,397
Lenny could have knocked out
Mike Tyson, Klitschko, any of them,
401
00:26:01,477 --> 00:26:05,482
on the cobbles, that is,
because he was fast, precise, strong
402
00:26:05,564 --> 00:26:08,737
and he could take a terrible hiding, you see.
403
00:26:08,817 --> 00:26:10,819
That's where Lenny's strength lay.
404
00:26:12,613 --> 00:26:14,490
He took so much punishment as a kid.
405
00:26:16,116 --> 00:26:20,587
These kids today are proud of having 10
or 20, maybe even 30 fights on their card.
406
00:26:21,830 --> 00:26:24,674
Lenny McLean had 2,000
up and down the country.
407
00:26:32,841 --> 00:26:38,723
But the reality of this is those lads
are getting hurt after one or two bouts.
408
00:26:38,806 --> 00:26:41,480
I mean, Lenny had thousands
and never whinged.
409
00:26:43,477 --> 00:26:47,072
Some fights, he didn't even take
his coat off, he just steamed in.
410
00:27:01,578 --> 00:27:05,294
To Lenny, it was like drinking a cup of tea.
There was no getting psyched up.
411
00:27:05,374 --> 00:27:09,971
He treated kindness with kindness,
but violence with extreme violence.
412
00:27:11,380 --> 00:27:13,929
For him, that was normal.
413
00:27:22,766 --> 00:27:26,191
I think he just enjoyed fighting,
I think he really did enjoy it, you know.
414
00:27:26,311 --> 00:27:29,485
I think my mum actually said to me once,
she said, she said to me,
415
00:27:29,565 --> 00:27:32,318
"Len, why do you do it?"
He said, "I just like hitting people.
416
00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:35,579
"You know, it makes me forget."
417
00:27:36,446 --> 00:27:37,743
You know, forget what?
418
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,723
The reason he got involved
in the unlicensed boxing
419
00:27:59,803 --> 00:28:03,435
was he was probably out drinking with his
friends and seen the posters on the wall
420
00:28:03,515 --> 00:28:06,143
and everyone is talking about someone else
being a hard man,
421
00:28:06,226 --> 00:28:08,398
but obviously what people
saying his reputation,
422
00:28:08,478 --> 00:28:11,448
Lenny this, Lenny that,
he thinks he's an 'ard man.
423
00:28:12,357 --> 00:28:15,452
So actually looking at the poster
he'd think, "Yeah, I could do that."
424
00:28:43,513 --> 00:28:48,610
Roy Shaw, basically, he'd just come out of
Broadmoor, OK, he was certified insane.
425
00:28:48,727 --> 00:28:52,322
Strong as a bull, very, very powerful man.
426
00:29:02,574 --> 00:29:05,327
When he was actually,
I think it might have been in Broadmoor,
427
00:29:05,410 --> 00:29:07,541
he smashed his way
out of the cell with his head.
428
00:29:07,621 --> 00:29:10,043
This is the sort of guy
that you're dealing with, you know.
429
00:29:10,123 --> 00:29:12,421
Complete and utter loose cannon.
430
00:29:24,888 --> 00:29:27,016
He was regarded as a psychopath.
431
00:29:38,652 --> 00:29:41,030
He was a complete raving lunatic.
432
00:29:44,574 --> 00:29:45,700
Roy.
433
00:29:46,660 --> 00:29:48,037
To the Guv'nor.
434
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:49,588
To the Guv'nor.
435
00:29:56,670 --> 00:30:01,011
So, when he picks up and reads
the paper about Roy Shaw's the Guv'nor,
436
00:30:01,091 --> 00:30:05,562
he's looking at that obviously and thinking,
"You ain't the fucking Guv'nor."
437
00:30:08,140 --> 00:30:12,145
Now, no one would say anything about
Roy Shaw because of the reprisals of it.
438
00:30:12,561 --> 00:30:16,610
Now, all of a sudden you look at your dad,
how old was he, 25?
439
00:30:16,690 --> 00:30:19,655
And now you've got 25-year-old kid
come out of the woodwork, right?
440
00:30:19,735 --> 00:30:21,031
He's walking around saying,
441
00:30:21,111 --> 00:30:23,614
"I know what I'd do with him,
I'd knock him spark out."
442
00:30:25,615 --> 00:30:27,709
25-year-old kid.
443
00:30:27,826 --> 00:30:31,876
He'd be going into Roy Shaw's local pub
throwing darts at pictures of him, right.
444
00:30:32,331 --> 00:30:34,959
Didn't care, absolutely fearless.
445
00:30:38,170 --> 00:30:39,216
So instead of him thinking,
446
00:30:39,296 --> 00:30:41,424
"Right, well, I've got to fight this one
to build up the ladder,
447
00:30:41,548 --> 00:30:42,970
"I might as well go straight to the top,"
448
00:30:43,175 --> 00:30:44,721
and that's the easiest way
to get the best reputation.
449
00:30:44,801 --> 00:30:46,644
If you beat the best fighter,
you are the best fighter.
450
00:30:47,512 --> 00:30:50,310
Word's obviously got back to Roy.
"There's this kid going around the East End,
451
00:30:50,390 --> 00:30:53,189
"he reckons, he reckons he know
what he'll do with you."
452
00:30:53,352 --> 00:30:56,026
I just picked up a paper one day
453
00:30:57,230 --> 00:30:59,733
and there was that Shaw in the paper saying,
454
00:31:00,067 --> 00:31:02,240
he's the Guv'nor,
he's the best fighter in London,
455
00:31:03,779 --> 00:31:04,951
and I knew I could beat him,
456
00:31:05,822 --> 00:31:07,074
I knew I could beat him.
457
00:31:08,325 --> 00:31:11,920
So a few friends and I got together,
stuck a few quid up and challenged him.
458
00:31:12,954 --> 00:31:14,706
Now Roy wants to fight big time.
459
00:31:15,582 --> 00:31:16,795
I just couldn't take anything from him.
460
00:31:16,875 --> 00:31:20,470
I couldn't take anybody telling me
what to do or telling me off, you know.
461
00:31:20,962 --> 00:31:23,340
Right, all of a sudden the fight's on.
462
00:31:32,099 --> 00:31:35,397
Well, the first fight, your dad,
when he was in his mid-20s
463
00:31:35,477 --> 00:31:37,320
he was so confident in his own ability,
464
00:31:37,979 --> 00:31:40,653
he didn't bother to train.
"I know what I'd do with this guy."
465
00:31:40,982 --> 00:31:43,030
"Crash, bang, wallop, 15 seconds,
466
00:31:43,110 --> 00:31:46,438
"he'll be unconscious, end of story,
I can go home, finished."
467
00:31:47,781 --> 00:31:51,661
But, Roy Shaw, he was a professional
fighter before he got arrested.
468
00:31:54,704 --> 00:31:58,083
You see, whereas he's hit people on
the chin before and they've gone spark out,
469
00:31:59,042 --> 00:32:03,218
now Roy, he was an ex-pro,
he's still there after a couple of rounds.
470
00:32:04,047 --> 00:32:10,054
So all of a sudden, your dad, he realises
that things ain't going quite his way, right.
471
00:32:11,555 --> 00:32:12,852
And then he got beat
472
00:32:14,141 --> 00:32:16,564
and it was because
of a lack of, lack of training.
473
00:32:21,648 --> 00:32:26,575
The second fight, I would say
that he trained a little bit harder.
474
00:32:27,946 --> 00:32:30,620
There was a scrapyard,
I think it was down near Roman Road,
475
00:32:30,824 --> 00:32:32,701
and they used to train in the scrapyard.
476
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:46,723
There's your trainer, Ted Heel.
477
00:32:49,676 --> 00:32:50,889
Yeah, it is great.
478
00:32:50,969 --> 00:32:53,222
- Train, box.
- You wanna bottle, cunt?
479
00:32:54,890 --> 00:32:56,478
All lorries along here,
480
00:32:56,558 --> 00:32:58,606
half Minis, half Mini engines,
481
00:32:58,810 --> 00:33:02,234
engines, there used to be caravans,
there used to be tyres all the way along here,
482
00:33:02,314 --> 00:33:04,653
and there used to be a mad horse
that used to run around,
483
00:33:04,733 --> 00:33:07,072
that used to live in a corrugated iron shed
484
00:33:07,152 --> 00:33:09,154
and them chasing the horse out
so that they could train.
485
00:33:23,251 --> 00:33:24,798
Go on kid, wind it up.
486
00:33:25,420 --> 00:33:27,172
With punch bags with sand in.
487
00:33:27,255 --> 00:33:29,970
I mean, if you ever punched a punch bag
with sand in, it is,
488
00:33:30,050 --> 00:33:31,552
well, you can't do it,
you'll just break your knuckles.
489
00:33:31,968 --> 00:33:36,348
And then they put gas bottles up
with rope round it and trained in the centre.
490
00:33:42,604 --> 00:33:44,982
And this is the actual place that it was
491
00:33:45,899 --> 00:33:47,822
and it's a park now,
you could have a picnic in it now.
492
00:34:06,002 --> 00:34:08,800
With your dad, he had that way about him.
493
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,554
I mean, he'd be up to
all sorts of tricks all the time, you know.
494
00:34:45,875 --> 00:34:47,172
He'd have you in fits.
495
00:34:52,340 --> 00:34:54,434
You know, he was a bit of a big kid at times.
496
00:34:58,138 --> 00:35:00,812
Even in the second fight, your dad,
he didn't really train hard.
497
00:35:02,601 --> 00:35:04,945
But he was becoming a boxer.
498
00:35:06,187 --> 00:35:10,237
And those old-school methods of training
where it's all sort of minimalist,
499
00:35:10,317 --> 00:35:12,365
it's what helps a fighter.
500
00:35:14,779 --> 00:35:16,660
Right, Ken, you're the,
you know you are the trainer,
501
00:35:16,740 --> 00:35:18,287
how long before you reckon he's ready?
502
00:35:19,159 --> 00:35:21,537
I think he would be ready
at the end of this week.
503
00:35:25,373 --> 00:35:26,750
He'll knock him out in the second round.
504
00:35:32,172 --> 00:35:33,219
What does your son think of him?
505
00:35:33,381 --> 00:35:35,725
Jamie, what round will your dad do him in?
506
00:35:35,884 --> 00:35:37,636
- In the first.
- First?
507
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,848
- One punch, one punch.
- One punch.
508
00:35:40,930 --> 00:35:42,602
- Yeah.
- It's easy, innit, it's easy.
509
00:35:42,682 --> 00:35:43,979
- Yeah.
- Easy.
510
00:35:44,684 --> 00:35:48,024
I'll knock him out
either in the first or the second.
511
00:35:48,104 --> 00:35:49,230
No, first.
512
00:35:49,939 --> 00:35:53,029
If it goes, if it goes more than,
if it goes more than eight rounds
513
00:35:53,109 --> 00:35:54,611
I can't get beat on points.
514
00:36:09,084 --> 00:36:12,714
More than 2,000 East Enders scented
something out of the ordinary
515
00:36:12,796 --> 00:36:14,218
and were not disappointed.
516
00:36:30,105 --> 00:36:31,357
...First right-hander.
517
00:36:31,439 --> 00:36:33,658
That is a punch. He looks a bit knackered.
518
00:36:33,900 --> 00:36:35,243
Ohh, oh!
519
00:36:46,496 --> 00:36:51,546
Classic Lenny McLean one-liner was that
he was being interviewed by a reporter once
520
00:36:51,626 --> 00:36:54,846
and the reporter said of Roy Shaw,
he said that...
521
00:36:55,588 --> 00:36:59,512
Roy Shaw now blames his rather
spectacular defeat on the fact
522
00:36:59,592 --> 00:37:03,016
that before the fight,
he was foolishly advised, he says,
523
00:37:03,096 --> 00:37:05,474
to take a particular form of herbal tea.
524
00:37:06,141 --> 00:37:09,896
So I thought, well, on the night,
what I'll do, I'll take more,
525
00:37:09,978 --> 00:37:11,816
so it'll make me feel stronger for the night,
526
00:37:11,896 --> 00:37:14,649
so on the night of the fight,
about three hours before,
527
00:37:14,733 --> 00:37:18,073
I took four times the amount,
but I didn't just take the capsules,
528
00:37:18,153 --> 00:37:20,155
I took the liquid stuff,
which is the stronger,
529
00:37:20,989 --> 00:37:24,118
but what happens when you take over
the amount, it sedates you,
530
00:37:24,701 --> 00:37:27,875
so really, I was sedated,
and my wife could have knocked me over.
531
00:37:28,329 --> 00:37:29,581
And Lenny said, "Listen..."
532
00:37:29,748 --> 00:37:32,968
All he took was a right hander,
and what happened in the second round.
533
00:37:34,961 --> 00:37:37,840
And he is racking about,
he took this and he took that.
534
00:37:37,922 --> 00:37:39,139
I don't care what you took.
535
00:37:39,382 --> 00:37:41,976
Now that's Lenny McLean,
that's classic, you know.
536
00:37:42,218 --> 00:37:44,812
Why is it so important to beat him,
in this particular fight?
537
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:47,023
Well...
538
00:37:49,851 --> 00:37:51,899
I've got a bee in my bonnet about him.
539
00:37:53,605 --> 00:37:57,360
He realises now, your dad,
that fitness does come into it,
540
00:37:57,484 --> 00:38:00,031
because it don't always go one round.
541
00:38:00,111 --> 00:38:01,741
Maybe they can hang on,
542
00:38:01,821 --> 00:38:04,536
maybe they might get on their bike
and run for a round,
543
00:38:04,616 --> 00:38:06,705
but you've got to have the stamina to,
with... You know,
544
00:38:06,785 --> 00:38:08,708
to carry on, so that's when
he come to the gym.
545
00:38:21,174 --> 00:38:24,139
Freddie Hill's Gym it was like a real
rough, tough sort of gym.
546
00:38:24,219 --> 00:38:27,143
It was like a throwback to the days
of the Rocky films, really, you know.
547
00:38:27,388 --> 00:38:30,729
If you look at the gyms today
they're all sort of high tech and, you know,
548
00:38:30,809 --> 00:38:32,937
whereas, like, Freddie Hill's gym
was like real rough
549
00:38:33,019 --> 00:38:34,987
and really spit-and-sawdust place, you know.
550
00:38:35,730 --> 00:38:38,734
I think it was just
absolutely stinking, the place,
551
00:38:38,900 --> 00:38:42,325
it stunk of stale beer downstairs
and sweat and tobacco upstairs.
552
00:38:43,112 --> 00:38:46,035
Nowadays, you walk in the gym,
they're all sort of plush,
553
00:38:46,115 --> 00:38:47,617
people putting on hand cream.
554
00:38:50,537 --> 00:38:54,041
So this is it, Freddie Hill's gym.
This is where all the pros come here,
555
00:38:54,123 --> 00:38:55,170
the Finnegan brothers,
556
00:38:55,250 --> 00:38:58,423
I think Marvin Hagler trained here
when he fought Alan Minter.
557
00:38:58,503 --> 00:39:01,256
As you can see, it's a block of flats.
558
00:39:01,381 --> 00:39:03,970
Every place we go now
is a block of flats or a park.
559
00:39:04,050 --> 00:39:05,722
I mean, I can remember coming here as a kid,
560
00:39:05,802 --> 00:39:08,180
everyone used to sign
their names on the ceiling.
561
00:39:08,263 --> 00:39:12,484
Every fighter that ever went in there,
black felt-tip, white walls, sign their name.
562
00:39:13,935 --> 00:39:15,523
I mean, when they used to train here,
563
00:39:15,603 --> 00:39:17,901
I mean, it wasn't like the trainer
would take you on the pads,
564
00:39:17,981 --> 00:39:19,733
I mean, he would just sit there on his desk,
565
00:39:19,941 --> 00:39:22,839
smoke his roll-up going,
"Yeah, do this, do that."
566
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:32,537
You know, there would be smoking roll-ups,
567
00:39:32,620 --> 00:39:36,341
training in roll necks and they're bloody
doing like eight, nine rounds of sparring.
568
00:39:59,814 --> 00:40:03,068
I was training in the gym
and your dad walked in and, you know,
569
00:40:03,151 --> 00:40:04,403
and he asked for Freddie Hill, I said,
570
00:40:04,485 --> 00:40:06,032
"He's not about,
but he shouldn't be long," you know.
571
00:40:06,112 --> 00:40:08,448
So he said, "All right," and I remember
there was a speedball hanging up
572
00:40:09,073 --> 00:40:11,041
and that had been hanging up for years,
this ball.
573
00:40:13,244 --> 00:40:15,542
And he hit this speedball with a left hook...
574
00:40:17,874 --> 00:40:21,094
It took off at about 50 mile an hour
on the other side of the ring.
575
00:40:21,628 --> 00:40:23,596
And I thought to myself,
"We've got trouble here."
576
00:40:26,799 --> 00:40:28,801
Freddie Hill was an old
throwback trainer as well,
577
00:40:28,885 --> 00:40:31,388
he was again just like
out of a Rocky film, you know.
578
00:40:31,888 --> 00:40:34,352
Uh, which suited your dad,
it suited him down to the ground
579
00:40:34,432 --> 00:40:36,479
because the modern trainers today
580
00:40:36,559 --> 00:40:39,607
wouldn't have been able
to handle your dad, really,
581
00:40:39,687 --> 00:40:41,564
because your dad
was a larger-than-life character,
582
00:40:41,648 --> 00:40:44,071
he wanted it his way and that was it.
583
00:40:44,651 --> 00:40:48,406
With Freddie Hill, he had the personality
to be able to deal with that.
584
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:52,955
Len, fight fucking fast, will you? Come on.
585
00:40:53,701 --> 00:40:55,453
Go on, throw some punches.
586
00:40:58,665 --> 00:41:01,588
And your dad had a lot
of respect for Freddie Hill.
587
00:41:01,668 --> 00:41:03,887
Nice. All right, John.
588
00:41:04,379 --> 00:41:07,423
What Lenny would do is Lenny would
just walk through punches, take punches,
589
00:41:07,507 --> 00:41:09,554
cos he knew they couldn't hurt him anyway,
590
00:41:09,634 --> 00:41:12,056
but what Freddie wanted to do,
he wanted to try and teach him
591
00:41:12,136 --> 00:41:14,605
how to slip punches
because when you slip a punch
592
00:41:14,722 --> 00:41:17,934
you can counter and when you can counter,
you can do damage without actually taking any.
593
00:41:18,101 --> 00:41:20,604
So then you used to be a warm up
for him, didn't you?
594
00:41:21,062 --> 00:41:23,064
What Freddie asked me to do,
"You go in with Lenny
595
00:41:23,147 --> 00:41:26,487
"and what I want you to do,
I just want you to just fire
596
00:41:26,567 --> 00:41:28,740
"loads and loads of jabs at Lenny,
quick-fire jabs,"
597
00:41:28,820 --> 00:41:31,159
bang, bang, bang,
and all Lenny had to do was,
598
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:34,368
all he had to do was learn
how to slip, like that.
599
00:41:44,585 --> 00:41:46,633
Being a lightweight,
if you can slip in with John,
600
00:41:46,713 --> 00:41:49,933
you're going to slip any heavyweight,
you're going to see it coming from a mile off.
601
00:41:54,053 --> 00:41:55,892
So every time I'd jab, he slipped,
602
00:41:55,972 --> 00:41:59,021
and as he slipped, you could come in
with a left hook or a right counter.
603
00:42:07,442 --> 00:42:09,864
In the beginning, I was catching him,
I've got to be honest with you.
604
00:42:09,944 --> 00:42:11,742
I was catching him on the top
of his head guard.
605
00:42:13,489 --> 00:42:16,959
After two or three days,
I wasn't catching him no more.
606
00:42:22,457 --> 00:42:24,459
And he was very hard to hit in the end.
607
00:42:35,720 --> 00:42:38,269
I know that he had run over Victoria Park
608
00:42:39,724 --> 00:42:41,101
so he was getting fitter now.
609
00:42:41,392 --> 00:42:42,735
They was training serious.
610
00:42:43,227 --> 00:42:45,776
He was getting fitter,
he was getting even stronger.
611
00:42:49,442 --> 00:42:53,868
He had a, he had like a fast track
to becoming a pro boxer.
612
00:42:54,238 --> 00:42:56,491
It's just a toughie,
you know, but as a fighter,
613
00:42:57,116 --> 00:42:58,538
I'd book him as nothing,
614
00:42:59,535 --> 00:43:00,832
I'll beat him easy this time.
615
00:43:07,794 --> 00:43:10,138
You'll see it.
It'll be a different fight entirely.
616
00:43:13,174 --> 00:43:15,268
It's a fight between two men
who are going to fight.
617
00:43:16,219 --> 00:43:18,017
Both are strong men, both are fit men.
618
00:43:18,513 --> 00:43:20,476
No weaknesses whatever with these two men,
619
00:43:20,556 --> 00:43:22,809
and this would be a definite fight
the public want to see,
620
00:43:22,892 --> 00:43:27,066
it's by public acclaim, and the people know
that they're not being brought in from abroad,
621
00:43:27,146 --> 00:43:29,399
they know that both men are strong,
they're both Londoners,
622
00:43:29,899 --> 00:43:33,870
and people who want to see the fight
of the two sportsmen together
623
00:43:33,986 --> 00:43:35,988
and as far as we're concerned
they're going to see a fight.
624
00:43:36,072 --> 00:43:37,368
You've got £300 on it.
625
00:43:37,448 --> 00:43:40,201
Three. I lost five last time, that was it,
626
00:43:40,284 --> 00:43:42,999
but I got some friends of mine
are putting a lot of money on.
627
00:43:43,079 --> 00:43:45,582
Apparently, McLean
is the favourite, you know,
628
00:43:45,665 --> 00:43:49,169
so then everyone, every man to his own
what's it called, but...
629
00:43:50,169 --> 00:43:51,261
Roy'll do him.
630
00:43:51,712 --> 00:43:54,090
So by the time the third fight comes round...
631
00:43:59,554 --> 00:44:00,555
Your dad was up for it.
632
00:44:00,638 --> 00:44:02,811
He wanted to make sure,
he wanted to put it to rest.
633
00:44:03,599 --> 00:44:05,442
You know you have got to survive
in the East End.
634
00:44:06,060 --> 00:44:08,779
Be the best fighter, be the Guv'nor.
635
00:44:11,232 --> 00:44:12,609
I'll kill that Roy Shaw.
636
00:44:24,871 --> 00:44:27,543
And I always remember before the fight,
in the dressing room,
637
00:44:27,623 --> 00:44:28,670
just as he was going to go out.
638
00:44:28,958 --> 00:44:31,461
That's why they call me Daddy Cool,
look at me.
639
00:44:31,544 --> 00:44:33,966
Hour before a fight, cool as a cucumber.
640
00:44:34,046 --> 00:44:38,096
That's why I've got to win
and that's when he will come second.
641
00:44:38,176 --> 00:44:39,889
And I'm actually sitting next to him,
642
00:44:39,969 --> 00:44:41,061
cool as a cucumber.
643
00:44:41,179 --> 00:44:44,102
I was literally sitting
next to him on the sofa,
644
00:44:44,182 --> 00:44:46,605
that is why they used to call him
Daddy Cool, weren't it?
645
00:44:47,143 --> 00:44:49,191
Well, Roy Shaw he's pacing
up and down, isn't he?
646
00:44:49,979 --> 00:44:52,107
Get that on tape, McLean's a poof.
647
00:44:54,317 --> 00:44:56,945
And they filled the Rainbow Theatre
up, 13,000 or something,
648
00:44:57,028 --> 00:44:58,951
there was a lot of people at the Rainbow,
it was packed.
649
00:45:05,536 --> 00:45:06,662
Roy thought he was going to face
650
00:45:06,746 --> 00:45:09,625
the same Lenny McLean as he did
the first and the second fight,
651
00:45:09,707 --> 00:45:11,175
the Lenny McLean that never trained.
652
00:45:22,803 --> 00:45:26,894
That was probably the best shape
he's ever been in.
653
00:45:26,974 --> 00:45:30,565
He was so cool because he knew,
look, I'm fit, I'm strong,
654
00:45:30,645 --> 00:45:33,568
I'm not going to get out of breath this time,
and he's bang in trouble,
655
00:45:33,648 --> 00:45:37,488
and as soon as I hit him on the chin
he won't be three rows back, he'll be six.
656
00:45:37,568 --> 00:45:39,740
Ladies and gentleman,
the Mean Machine himself,
657
00:45:39,820 --> 00:45:41,743
Roy "Pretty Boy" Shaw.
658
00:45:48,037 --> 00:45:50,665
In the red corner, Lenny "Boy" McLean.
659
00:45:52,458 --> 00:45:56,213
He was more than capable of doing
six or seven rounds on that night.
660
00:45:56,295 --> 00:45:59,424
He was lean, he was strong, he was fit.
661
00:46:01,550 --> 00:46:05,266
I mean, these were men.
This was the old dying breed of warrior
662
00:46:05,346 --> 00:46:07,560
that no longer exists, you know.
663
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:09,984
Two reputations met in the ring.
664
00:46:16,023 --> 00:46:17,361
From just throwing caution,
665
00:46:17,441 --> 00:46:20,114
to just going in like a street fighter would,
now all of a sudden, Lenny,
666
00:46:20,194 --> 00:46:22,322
he's got his head down,
he's got his hands up.
667
00:46:22,405 --> 00:46:24,869
You know, now all of a sudden,
he's looking, he's looking the part now,
668
00:46:24,949 --> 00:46:27,372
he's looking like a fighter,
he knows how to throw shots.
669
00:46:29,954 --> 00:46:33,294
He wasn't walking through punches
to land his own, he was slipping them,
670
00:46:33,374 --> 00:46:35,087
and also, when he was slipping punches,
671
00:46:35,167 --> 00:46:37,715
the opponent that was throwing the punches
that were missing,
672
00:46:37,795 --> 00:46:41,383
they was running out of steam because
there is nothing that drains your energy more
673
00:46:41,465 --> 00:46:44,263
than actually when you're throwing punches
and missing your target,
674
00:46:44,343 --> 00:46:46,186
so it was all working for Lenny.
675
00:46:48,931 --> 00:46:51,354
And he did have that, that, just that rage.
676
00:46:55,062 --> 00:46:57,485
Technically, once he learnt how to box,
677
00:46:57,565 --> 00:47:00,990
he utilised that ferociousness
and he contained it.
678
00:47:09,827 --> 00:47:14,003
You see traits of a very, very skilful boxer.
679
00:47:15,333 --> 00:47:17,631
He always looked at his opponent
like it has his stepfather.
680
00:47:20,254 --> 00:47:22,882
So he could channel all his aggression
and all his hate
681
00:47:23,799 --> 00:47:26,517
and do whatever he had to do to defeat it.
682
00:47:49,617 --> 00:47:51,330
Who's the Guv'nor?
683
00:47:54,955 --> 00:47:56,582
I'm the Guv'nor!
684
00:47:59,168 --> 00:48:00,465
Who's the Guv'nor?
685
00:48:05,299 --> 00:48:08,894
After he won the final Roy Shaw fight,
he was forever known as the Guv'nor.
686
00:48:10,930 --> 00:48:14,309
The Guv'nor would probably mean,
you know, you are the toughest man
687
00:48:14,392 --> 00:48:15,518
where you come from.
688
00:48:15,601 --> 00:48:17,228
How do you get on with your kids,
what do you tell them?
689
00:48:17,311 --> 00:48:18,941
- My kids.
- What do you tell them you do?
690
00:48:19,021 --> 00:48:21,235
Well, they know what I do,
but it's a good education
691
00:48:21,315 --> 00:48:24,194
because they know
I would never allow them to do it,
692
00:48:24,276 --> 00:48:27,284
because I've had to do it, but they won't
have to do it, I shall make sure of that.
693
00:48:27,655 --> 00:48:29,118
Do you ever give them a slap and...
694
00:48:29,198 --> 00:48:30,619
- Never. I never...
- Really?
695
00:48:30,699 --> 00:48:31,838
Anyone who hits...
696
00:48:31,918 --> 00:48:35,167
Listen to me,
anybody who hits kids are bullies
697
00:48:35,996 --> 00:48:38,544
because they can't hit anyone else,
so they hit kids.
698
00:48:38,624 --> 00:48:42,465
My two kids, 15 and 16,
I have never ever hit them, I love them,
699
00:48:42,545 --> 00:48:45,718
they are my babies, how could I knock
them about, they are a part of me.
700
00:48:45,798 --> 00:48:48,051
Anyone who hits kids, they're bullies,
701
00:48:48,134 --> 00:48:50,431
but my babies are beautiful, I love them.
702
00:48:50,511 --> 00:48:52,855
My boy could never do what I do,
I wouldn't let him.
703
00:48:54,974 --> 00:48:58,820
There was a lot of money tied up in
that last fight and life changed dramatically.
704
00:49:03,899 --> 00:49:06,402
I was born in 1971.
705
00:49:06,902 --> 00:49:10,998
My earliest memories of my father
would probably be Christmas time.
706
00:49:20,583 --> 00:49:21,960
We had a very loving family.
707
00:49:22,042 --> 00:49:23,964
My mum was very cuddly and lovely
708
00:49:24,044 --> 00:49:26,763
and my dad wasn't sort of
that cuddly of a dad.
709
00:49:26,881 --> 00:49:31,263
I mean, he would cuddle you and kiss you,
but his way to show affection and love,
710
00:49:31,343 --> 00:49:34,563
he would actually go out and buy you stuff,
like Christmas would be very special.
711
00:49:37,099 --> 00:49:40,981
So when me, my sister and my mum
would wake up and it would be like
712
00:49:41,061 --> 00:49:43,484
Santa's Grotto, there would be so many
presents and toys
713
00:49:43,564 --> 00:49:45,487
and my mum and everyone would be happy.
714
00:49:50,905 --> 00:49:52,782
You know, we would go on holidays to Spain.
715
00:49:53,157 --> 00:49:55,285
Then he got a nice house in Streatham Road,
716
00:49:55,659 --> 00:49:57,002
things started developing for him.
717
00:49:57,495 --> 00:49:59,542
And in the 1980s,
718
00:49:59,622 --> 00:50:01,920
he began to fight professionally
as an unlicensed boxer.
719
00:50:21,227 --> 00:50:23,730
Is there a tender side to my dad Lenny?
720
00:50:23,854 --> 00:50:28,320
Yeah, there was a very tender side to him.
I mean, he was constantly cuddling the dog.
721
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,739
I mean, I can remember coming home from work
722
00:50:30,819 --> 00:50:34,285
and I could hear terrible howls and screams
and then I would go upstairs
723
00:50:34,365 --> 00:50:35,578
and I would be listening outside the door
724
00:50:35,658 --> 00:50:38,787
and I could hear him go,
"Don't bite Daddy, don't bite Daddy."
725
00:50:41,914 --> 00:50:44,879
The unlicensed fighting, I mean, look,
you've got to understand something.
726
00:50:44,959 --> 00:50:47,212
This man come from nothing, they had nothing,
727
00:50:47,294 --> 00:50:49,422
you know, they had to fight to survive,
like he says,
728
00:50:49,505 --> 00:50:51,257
you have to fight in the East End
to get anywhere,
729
00:50:51,340 --> 00:50:54,510
and that is the only thing he knew
and you have to take your hat off to him.
730
00:50:54,677 --> 00:50:57,600
You know, he wasn't blessed
with a massive education,
731
00:50:57,680 --> 00:50:59,899
he wasn't blessed
with the best looking in the world,
732
00:51:00,224 --> 00:51:03,194
but he could fight
and he used it to his best abilities.
733
00:51:06,564 --> 00:51:10,535
The most important thing
in Lenny's life was his family.
734
00:51:11,777 --> 00:51:14,155
You were big players in his life,
you were his number one.
735
00:51:16,782 --> 00:51:18,910
I left home at 21.
736
00:51:18,993 --> 00:51:21,621
I bought my first property
which is in Wanstead
737
00:51:21,704 --> 00:51:23,292
and then I remember I was
moving out in the morning,
738
00:51:23,372 --> 00:51:26,125
just getting my clothes together
and he called me in the bedroom
739
00:51:26,208 --> 00:51:28,051
and said, "Me and mummy
don't want you to go."
740
00:51:28,210 --> 00:51:30,925
He went, "Why don't you do this,
rent your flat out,"
741
00:51:31,005 --> 00:51:33,758
he said, "Live here rent-free,"
he says, "You will have income coming in,"
742
00:51:33,841 --> 00:51:35,804
and he said, "You got your work
down in Smithfield,"
743
00:51:35,884 --> 00:51:36,976
he said "You're going to be laughing."
744
00:51:37,094 --> 00:51:39,058
He said, "Stay here rent-free,
you haven't got to pay nothing."
745
00:51:39,138 --> 00:51:43,062
I went, I thought about it for a minute
and I thought, no, no, I got, I went, no,
746
00:51:43,142 --> 00:51:45,895
"I am young, I want to go out
to parties and that"
747
00:51:45,978 --> 00:51:48,150
and I moved out and they, I think they was,
748
00:51:48,230 --> 00:51:50,569
I could see a tear was in their eyes,
especially me dad.
749
00:51:50,649 --> 00:51:52,196
He was devastated I was leaving home.
750
00:51:58,866 --> 00:52:03,040
In the '90s, his reputation
had sort of carried through and,
751
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:05,334
but he was one of the most successful
bouncers of all time
752
00:52:05,414 --> 00:52:06,757
on all the doors in the West End.
753
00:52:08,334 --> 00:52:11,804
Lenny McLean, who boasts
he's the king of London's bouncers.
754
00:52:12,296 --> 00:52:13,548
In a club,
755
00:52:15,090 --> 00:52:16,683
you have a lot of aggravation.
756
00:52:17,551 --> 00:52:21,101
"Get Lenny." "Lenny will straighten it up."
"Lenny will put it on the map."
757
00:52:22,348 --> 00:52:25,601
Lenny admits
he has a criminal record for GBH.
758
00:52:26,894 --> 00:52:28,567
Treat kindness with kindness,
759
00:52:29,396 --> 00:52:30,943
but your Jack the Lads today,
760
00:52:31,940 --> 00:52:33,908
they want violence,
you treat violence with violence.
761
00:52:34,902 --> 00:52:39,408
In one week, we had a lot of trouble
with some people, a lot of Jack the Lads,
762
00:52:39,490 --> 00:52:43,870
I broke five jaws.
They didn't stop screaming to the police.
763
00:52:49,083 --> 00:52:50,754
- Hello, mate.
- How's it going, Mick?
764
00:52:50,834 --> 00:52:52,548
- Long time, no see.
- Great to see you, how are ya?
765
00:52:52,628 --> 00:52:53,880
What are you doing out here?
766
00:52:54,004 --> 00:52:55,506
We are coming in to come and speak to you.
767
00:52:57,257 --> 00:52:59,430
How did you meet him
768
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:02,730
and did you know about his reputation
before you had met him?
769
00:53:02,888 --> 00:53:05,477
I'd heard of Lenny back in the day.
770
00:53:05,557 --> 00:53:09,061
Went to the Camden Palace
to look for some work, got the job down there
771
00:53:09,144 --> 00:53:11,897
and basically, Lenny took me under his wing.
772
00:53:12,940 --> 00:53:15,154
It was a good place,
we had a good team down there,
773
00:53:15,234 --> 00:53:17,612
and obviously, the Guv'nor was the leader.
774
00:53:17,695 --> 00:53:20,284
A lot of the times,
we was in the restaurant upstairs eating.
775
00:53:20,364 --> 00:53:25,165
In fact, I brought a little picture
in to show you, this was back in the day.
776
00:53:25,994 --> 00:53:28,584
We used to be in the restaurant,
the buzzer used to go,
777
00:53:28,664 --> 00:53:30,416
everyone used to wait for us
to come downstairs.
778
00:53:30,499 --> 00:53:33,503
- What, they didn't go and deal with it?
- No, they weren't allowed to,
779
00:53:33,585 --> 00:53:36,300
we had to wait for Lenny
to come and take the front line,
780
00:53:36,380 --> 00:53:39,384
and then it was Lenny at the front
and it was about 12 or 13 behind him,
781
00:53:40,008 --> 00:53:42,556
all gloved up, we always had little
pads made up, you know.
782
00:53:42,636 --> 00:53:45,147
A lot of people say they were knuckle-dusters,
they wasn't, they were just pads.
783
00:53:45,228 --> 00:53:47,558
Weren't knuckle-dusters,
we, they were like boxing pads,
784
00:53:47,641 --> 00:53:50,645
made up, so you didn't cut your hands
or damage our hands.
785
00:53:51,019 --> 00:53:52,441
When my dad was doing the Camden Palace
786
00:53:52,521 --> 00:53:54,148
I can remember going
into the kitchen sometimes,
787
00:53:54,231 --> 00:53:57,075
and he would have a collection
of knives that he's took off people.
788
00:53:57,443 --> 00:54:00,115
I mean, you had to act first,
otherwise that would end up in you.
789
00:54:00,195 --> 00:54:01,697
You had to, it was life or death.
790
00:54:01,780 --> 00:54:05,034
And Lenny would, every party that I would do,
he would come down, you know...
791
00:54:05,117 --> 00:54:07,331
- Just to show his face.
- To show his face.
792
00:54:07,411 --> 00:54:10,751
Lemonade, he would ask me to shoot up
and get some lemonades
793
00:54:10,831 --> 00:54:12,920
and I'd be the only person
who had to fly up there and get them.
794
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:15,378
What, so if someone said,
"Oh, I'd get you a lemonade, Len," he'd go...
795
00:54:15,461 --> 00:54:18,965
No, he send, send Short Stuff,
so I'd fly up, get the lemonades,
796
00:54:19,047 --> 00:54:22,221
he followed a few people and then say,
"Any problems, give me a call at home,"
797
00:54:22,301 --> 00:54:23,518
and that was it,
and then he was gone, you know.
798
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:26,347
What was he actually like
when it did kick off?
799
00:54:27,139 --> 00:54:30,229
He kicked off properly. You know,
a lot of times it was one punch, it was down,
800
00:54:30,309 --> 00:54:32,732
and he used to say,
"Good night, God bless," all the time.
801
00:54:33,145 --> 00:54:35,273
So wherever we worked,
we worked on a lot of places,
802
00:54:35,355 --> 00:54:37,858
from the Camden Palace,
we went to the Hippodrome after.
803
00:54:43,781 --> 00:54:47,160
Probably my dad's most famous
time of working in the West End
804
00:54:47,242 --> 00:54:49,711
would be the London Hippodrome,
where my dad got nicked for the murder.
805
00:54:57,795 --> 00:54:59,968
We're now coming into Leicester Square.
806
00:55:01,340 --> 00:55:05,345
He had all the Leicester Square all sewn up,
he had the ticket touts,
807
00:55:05,427 --> 00:55:07,555
cab drivers, the food sellers,
808
00:55:07,638 --> 00:55:10,187
anything you could think of,
it was his little domain.
809
00:55:10,349 --> 00:55:13,102
It was probably a really good time in my life
810
00:55:13,185 --> 00:55:14,812
because we used to come up here
811
00:55:14,895 --> 00:55:17,023
and we used to be like,
you know, like celebrities.
812
00:55:17,523 --> 00:55:20,362
Just every door opened
to wherever you wanted to go
813
00:55:20,442 --> 00:55:23,867
because he was held in such high esteem.
814
00:55:24,780 --> 00:55:27,033
You know, it was mutual
respect amongst doorman
815
00:55:27,115 --> 00:55:31,120
that you could use your reputation
to get in anywhere you wanted to get.
816
00:55:50,889 --> 00:55:54,605
I was with, obviously,
working with Charlie Kray.
817
00:55:54,685 --> 00:55:57,399
We had an office in the Roman Road,
818
00:55:57,479 --> 00:55:59,481
we had it many a times
and Charlie said to me one day,
819
00:55:59,565 --> 00:56:01,943
"I've got to go up and see Alex, Alex Stein."
820
00:56:02,943 --> 00:56:04,286
Some, doing some boxing promoting
821
00:56:04,695 --> 00:56:06,158
and when we were getting up there,
822
00:56:06,238 --> 00:56:10,078
there was a monster of a man stood outside
and Charlie went, "That's Lenny,
823
00:56:10,158 --> 00:56:11,246
"I've got to have a word with him."
824
00:56:11,326 --> 00:56:15,542
I went, "I hope it's a nice word," and they
got up there fired him into a little bit
825
00:56:15,622 --> 00:56:18,000
and was having a little bit it was going
here and there and I thought,
826
00:56:18,292 --> 00:56:19,630
"Charlie, you've got to ease up here, pal,
827
00:56:19,710 --> 00:56:21,963
"because we could end up
getting battered here."
828
00:56:22,671 --> 00:56:26,175
I can see this, and then it all stopped,
829
00:56:26,258 --> 00:56:28,556
big hug, and I went, "Thank God for that,"
830
00:56:28,802 --> 00:56:33,103
and Charlie went, "Here, John, meet Len.
Len, this is my pal John."
831
00:56:35,934 --> 00:56:38,023
You know, this is quite hard to actually
walk into the Hippodrome,
832
00:56:38,103 --> 00:56:40,856
because the last time I come here
he was on the door,
833
00:56:41,148 --> 00:56:43,401
you know, we're coming back
for the first time.
834
00:56:48,155 --> 00:56:51,534
He was here on the doors from '90 to '93.
835
00:56:52,784 --> 00:56:54,536
Look how it's changed, unbelievable.
836
00:56:56,204 --> 00:56:57,581
He would stand inside the door,
837
00:56:57,664 --> 00:56:59,758
but mainly he had a little office
on the left hand side
838
00:57:00,042 --> 00:57:02,422
with a camera on the door so he could
see everything that was going on,
839
00:57:02,502 --> 00:57:06,382
him and his cousin John-John would sit
in there just eating Chinese every night
840
00:57:06,465 --> 00:57:08,934
taking the piss out of everyone
walking in there.
841
00:57:09,051 --> 00:57:10,928
A bad time for him and us
842
00:57:11,011 --> 00:57:13,480
was obviously when he got nicked
for the murder at the Hippodrome.
843
00:57:16,725 --> 00:57:19,773
He was actually on his way home
and then they rung him and said,
844
00:57:19,853 --> 00:57:21,650
"Look, Len, we've got some geezer here."
845
00:57:21,730 --> 00:57:24,233
The guy was actually starkers naked.
846
00:57:24,483 --> 00:57:26,781
He's got his old bill out,
he's pissing on the dance floor,
847
00:57:26,902 --> 00:57:29,030
doorman grabbed hold of him,
took him to a room.
848
00:57:29,446 --> 00:57:32,950
And my dad obviously give him
a backhander or a clump or whatever,
849
00:57:33,033 --> 00:57:34,660
dressed him up after and got him out.
850
00:57:39,081 --> 00:57:42,551
I'm in bed, I got up quite early
Sunday morning, put the radio on
851
00:57:42,709 --> 00:57:45,507
and I hear this thing about the Hippodrome,
someone died or got murdered,
852
00:57:45,587 --> 00:57:46,759
and I thought, well, what?
853
00:57:47,005 --> 00:57:48,632
So I got straight on to the phone to Lenny.
854
00:57:48,715 --> 00:57:50,554
And my dad went, "You're joking."
855
00:57:50,634 --> 00:57:52,180
So he goes, "Oh, fucking, are you serious?"
856
00:57:52,260 --> 00:57:54,262
I went, "I've heard it,
that is why I am ringing you up."
857
00:57:55,138 --> 00:57:57,266
So he goes, "Let me ring you back."
He spoke to Val.
858
00:57:57,349 --> 00:58:00,188
He said, "That fella I give
a backhander to last night, he's died.
859
00:58:00,268 --> 00:58:01,690
"They're going to come and nick me for this."
860
00:58:01,770 --> 00:58:04,239
She went, "No, don't be silly,
they're not going to come and nick you."
861
00:58:05,357 --> 00:58:07,655
Probably a day or two went past
862
00:58:08,151 --> 00:58:09,903
and all of a sudden the doorbell went
863
00:58:09,987 --> 00:58:11,864
and there must have been
about fifty old bill outside.
864
00:58:13,323 --> 00:58:14,995
And they said,
"We need to take you down the station
865
00:58:15,075 --> 00:58:16,748
"and question about Mr Humphries."
866
00:58:18,537 --> 00:58:21,461
And I think that they had arrested
Robert Lopez as well.
867
00:58:21,748 --> 00:58:23,341
They said, "Look, we're going to arrest
you and Robert,"
868
00:58:23,458 --> 00:58:25,422
and my dad said, "Look,"
he said, "Robert never hit the kid."
869
00:58:25,502 --> 00:58:26,503
He said, "I hit him."
870
00:58:26,878 --> 00:58:29,347
He said, "But I had to keep him under
control because he was a nutter."
871
00:58:30,716 --> 00:58:32,514
And then they charged him with the murder.
872
00:58:36,430 --> 00:58:38,683
I mean, I can remember pulling up at my house
873
00:58:38,765 --> 00:58:40,767
and my mum was in fits of laughter.
874
00:58:41,184 --> 00:58:45,564
It was a nervous reaction, she couldn't,
it was like uncontrollable fits of laughter.
875
00:58:49,860 --> 00:58:52,409
You know, he was on remand
for 12 months on a murder charge.
876
00:59:09,421 --> 00:59:13,392
Apparently, he was running loose
from Manchester out of a nuthouse,
877
00:59:13,508 --> 00:59:15,226
he ended up in London somehow,
878
00:59:15,594 --> 00:59:18,598
from London he came to the Hippodrome,
got thrown out,
879
00:59:18,889 --> 00:59:21,517
apparently he was pissing on the cars
outside the Hippodrome,
880
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:23,022
heading up towards the casino.
881
00:59:24,144 --> 00:59:28,360
The next thing there was police, four or five
police threw him headfirst into a van
882
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:32,911
and there was a nurse who witnessed it
that was walking by that night
883
00:59:33,028 --> 00:59:34,371
which saved Lenny's arse.
884
00:59:35,989 --> 00:59:39,209
So it was the police that caused the damage
and killed him, not Lenny.
885
00:59:39,785 --> 00:59:43,665
That's why they overruled in court
and he got what he got, you know,
886
00:59:43,747 --> 00:59:46,717
an ABH instead of them
trying to pin a murder charge on him.
887
00:59:47,751 --> 00:59:51,472
And then after the trial it says here,
"The police beat up tragic streaker."
888
00:59:51,588 --> 00:59:56,094
So a night club streaker was beaten to death
by the police, not the two bouncers
889
00:59:56,176 --> 00:59:58,725
accused of the, accused of the murder
at the Old Bailey.
890
00:59:59,554 --> 01:00:02,148
Yeah, it was a witch hunt.
891
01:00:04,518 --> 01:00:06,606
Because of the name Lenny McLean,
892
01:00:06,686 --> 01:00:09,439
I think the police had it in for him
and they tried to pin it on him.
893
01:00:12,025 --> 01:00:14,528
I mean, at the moment
when charges got dropped,
894
01:00:14,611 --> 01:00:15,988
I mean, he literally stood up
895
01:00:16,822 --> 01:00:20,662
and stared at the judge and he sung
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
896
01:00:20,742 --> 01:00:24,042
by Monty Python, and that is just the
sort of sense of humour my dad had.
897
01:00:25,330 --> 01:00:27,207
I have to whistle it cos I don't know
the rest of the words.
898
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:37,760
I think it sort of wore him down in the end,
I think he just had enough, you know.
899
01:00:37,843 --> 01:00:42,019
I could see a man who, who really
wanted to step into something else.
900
01:00:42,806 --> 01:00:46,356
That's why he tried to do something
a little bit more sort of creative.
901
01:00:50,564 --> 01:00:52,862
In the 1990s, he'd written his own book.
902
01:00:53,608 --> 01:00:55,906
His book, he knew that was a winner,
903
01:00:55,986 --> 01:00:58,200
he knew that was gold dust,
904
01:00:58,280 --> 01:00:59,748
and yet people couldn't see it.
905
01:01:01,032 --> 01:01:05,162
And I was around him for years
when he was punting that book around,
906
01:01:06,413 --> 01:01:09,292
until one day
somebody looked at it and thought,
907
01:01:09,374 --> 01:01:13,090
"This is special, this is going to do
very, very well, this book,"
908
01:01:13,170 --> 01:01:16,424
and they took it on
because they could see that it was gold dust,
909
01:01:16,673 --> 01:01:18,887
they could see the potential in this book.
910
01:01:18,967 --> 01:01:21,641
Why no one has taken this on is beyond me.
911
01:01:23,180 --> 01:01:24,807
And it was the best seller.
912
01:01:27,559 --> 01:01:31,063
And it was the best seller for years.
It sold millions of copies.
913
01:01:32,355 --> 01:01:34,574
And he became sort of famous.
914
01:01:34,900 --> 01:01:39,497
You always see his face,
knuckles up at the chin everywhere you go.
915
01:01:39,946 --> 01:01:41,448
And he became a celebrity.
916
01:01:45,702 --> 01:01:47,204
He got TV roles.
917
01:01:47,287 --> 01:01:51,461
There is 200 notes there for you
and one or two of your men about,
918
01:01:51,541 --> 01:01:53,464
just to discourage them.
919
01:01:54,002 --> 01:01:55,504
And also his talk shows.
920
01:01:55,587 --> 01:01:56,884
Lenny McLean.
921
01:02:00,634 --> 01:02:03,433
Lenny McLean, champion street
fighter of Great Britain.
922
01:02:03,970 --> 01:02:06,439
I'm planning to have a scrap.
923
01:02:07,015 --> 01:02:10,690
He loved the attention. I mean,
he loved his family, but he liked,
924
01:02:10,810 --> 01:02:12,187
you know, people taking notice of him.
925
01:02:12,312 --> 01:02:14,859
Ladies and gentlemen, Lenny McLean.
926
01:02:18,318 --> 01:02:19,945
As he was coming to later on in his life,
927
01:02:20,028 --> 01:02:25,080
I think he knew he could do a lot more,
like the acting was just right up his street.
928
01:02:25,492 --> 01:02:27,719
Ray, you are a fucking gentleman.
929
01:02:30,705 --> 01:02:32,627
He said, "You know, all these years,"
930
01:02:32,707 --> 01:02:35,547
he said, "I've been punching people
and knocking people out,"
931
01:02:35,627 --> 01:02:37,629
he said, "And it just suddenly dawned on me,"
932
01:02:39,089 --> 01:02:44,311
he said, "You punch someone on the jaw in
a nightclub, they want to give you five years,"
933
01:02:44,594 --> 01:02:48,019
"you do it in front of a TV camera,
they want to give you five grand, yeah."
934
01:02:50,934 --> 01:02:52,647
He's a fucking thief.
935
01:02:52,727 --> 01:02:56,573
Harry has a colleague, a monster
of a man, Barry the Baptist.
936
01:02:56,898 --> 01:02:59,487
The Baptist got his name
by drowning people for Hatchet.
937
01:02:59,567 --> 01:03:01,615
I don't give a fucking...
938
01:03:08,743 --> 01:03:10,541
I loved your dad, he was fabulous.
939
01:03:11,997 --> 01:03:13,793
I remember the first time I saw your dad,
940
01:03:13,873 --> 01:03:15,500
I saw him on the door of the Hippodrome
941
01:03:17,043 --> 01:03:18,386
when I was about 15 or something,
942
01:03:18,628 --> 01:03:21,301
and as soon as I saw him, I thought,
943
01:03:21,381 --> 01:03:24,346
"If I ever end up making a movie,
he's going to be in the movie."
944
01:03:24,426 --> 01:03:26,895
And then, I don't know what it was,
10 years later or whatever it was,
945
01:03:27,304 --> 01:03:29,056
he was in there,
946
01:03:29,139 --> 01:03:31,267
and I called him up, I can't remember
how I got hold of the number,
947
01:03:31,349 --> 01:03:33,977
and your dad just could not
have been more helpful,
948
01:03:34,060 --> 01:03:35,398
and that's before we had any dough,
949
01:03:35,478 --> 01:03:37,276
or before we was sort of
organised or anything.
950
01:03:37,981 --> 01:03:41,360
And as your dad come in,
I loved him, he was great.
951
01:03:41,443 --> 01:03:43,495
And are you still cracking on in the films?
952
01:03:43,678 --> 01:03:45,601
Am I still cracking on?
953
01:03:46,406 --> 01:03:49,120
We made a fucking deal
for everything inside the cabinet.
954
01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:51,953
Inside out-fuckin'-side, I don't give a shit.
955
01:03:52,537 --> 01:03:54,542
You get those guns, because if you don't...
956
01:03:54,622 --> 01:03:55,794
Oh, yeah, Bazza, or what?
957
01:03:55,874 --> 01:03:58,593
We had these trailers which were,
it's called a three-way.
958
01:03:58,918 --> 01:04:02,218
It's a caravan with no toilets,
but three changing rooms,
959
01:04:03,006 --> 01:04:06,054
which you'd put, you know, someone who
was in for a day you might put them in,
960
01:04:06,134 --> 01:04:09,138
but what they did was,
they put two of us in each,
961
01:04:09,387 --> 01:04:11,435
me with your dad.
962
01:04:11,681 --> 01:04:15,397
So it was Lenny's first day
and I got to my little door and it went
963
01:04:15,477 --> 01:04:20,199
"Jason Flemyng, Lenny McLean,"
and I went, "Oh..."
964
01:04:20,398 --> 01:04:21,650
And I opened the door and I looked in,
965
01:04:21,733 --> 01:04:24,197
it was tiny and I went,
"There is no way on God's green Earth
966
01:04:24,277 --> 01:04:26,996
"Lenny McLean is going to get
in this trailer with me in it."
967
01:04:27,113 --> 01:04:30,287
So I got, I got changed quickly and left
my bag in the corner and then Lenny arrived
968
01:04:30,367 --> 01:04:33,290
and he went, "You all right, boy,"
and I went, "Yeah, yeah, no, I'm fine, Lenny.
969
01:04:33,370 --> 01:04:34,747
"I'm going to change,
I'm going to leave you to it,
970
01:04:34,829 --> 01:04:38,003
"I'm going to change out here,"
and he went, "What, outside?" and I went,
971
01:04:38,124 --> 01:04:41,047
"Yeah, no, I'm going to change,
I'm just going to change in the street,"
972
01:04:41,127 --> 01:04:44,176
and he went, "Good boy,"
and he closed the door.
973
01:04:44,381 --> 01:04:46,678
And I was getting changed in the street
and I'd forgotten something,
974
01:04:46,758 --> 01:04:50,103
I knocked on the door like this,
and I'd left my stuff in there,
975
01:04:50,762 --> 01:04:53,351
and there was a CD that I,
that's how long ago it was,
976
01:04:53,431 --> 01:04:57,061
there was a CD which I was playing,
which was on the side, it was an Elvis CD,
977
01:04:57,143 --> 01:05:00,898
and your dad was very into Elvis
and it was a Japanese import and he went,
978
01:05:00,980 --> 01:05:03,733
and it was the first day I met him
and I went, he went,
979
01:05:04,526 --> 01:05:05,778
"Where did you get this, boy?"
980
01:05:05,860 --> 01:05:08,864
And I went, "Oh, it's a Japanese import,
they're hard to get."
981
01:05:08,947 --> 01:05:10,994
And he goes, "Could you get me one of these?"
982
01:05:11,074 --> 01:05:13,246
And I said, "You can have that one, Lenny,"
983
01:05:13,326 --> 01:05:15,954
and he went, "Good boy, good boy,"
and he stuck it in his bag
984
01:05:16,037 --> 01:05:18,835
and I was like, "Oh, God,
this is a nightmare being in with Lenny,"
985
01:05:18,915 --> 01:05:20,041
cos there's nothing I can say.
986
01:05:21,251 --> 01:05:23,595
You know, I saw him do the scene
with the Scousers
987
01:05:23,795 --> 01:05:25,718
and he was going, he goes,
"Where's those guns?"
988
01:05:25,880 --> 01:05:26,972
Where's the others?
989
01:05:27,340 --> 01:05:29,468
"Did you get those guns, the old ones?"
990
01:05:29,551 --> 01:05:31,599
Stop fuckin' around.
The others, the old ones.
991
01:05:31,803 --> 01:05:33,600
We had to sell them, we needed the money.
992
01:05:33,680 --> 01:05:36,058
I'm not fucking interested.
993
01:05:36,141 --> 01:05:39,645
If you don't want to be counting the fingers
you haven't got,
994
01:05:39,811 --> 01:05:42,735
I suggest you get those guns quick!
995
01:05:43,273 --> 01:05:45,820
Yeah, I knew your father
from way back in the day now.
996
01:05:45,900 --> 01:05:49,029
I mean, I've come out of Camden,
so at the age of about 15, 16
997
01:05:49,112 --> 01:05:51,786
we used to go to Camden Palace,
which used to be called Koko,
998
01:05:51,906 --> 01:05:54,910
so we used to turn up there
and my friends used to be all nervous
999
01:05:54,993 --> 01:05:58,372
cos your dad would be
just like a big fella on the door
1000
01:05:58,496 --> 01:06:00,919
and I used to say,
"Don't worry about it, I'll deal with this.
1001
01:06:00,999 --> 01:06:04,714
"Go on," I said, "Push me up," and I was
like, "All right, Len, how you doing?"
1002
01:06:04,794 --> 01:06:07,047
And he goes, "Go on, fuck off, get in."
1003
01:06:07,130 --> 01:06:10,095
He just used to, and we were in,
VIPs to put us in,
1004
01:06:10,175 --> 01:06:12,303
I don't know why, he just liked us
because we had a bit of banter,
1005
01:06:12,385 --> 01:06:14,433
- I had a bit of banter.
- Yeah, that's what he probably liked.
1006
01:06:14,721 --> 01:06:15,893
Hello?
1007
01:06:16,014 --> 01:06:17,857
Get us ice cream while you are at it.
1008
01:06:17,974 --> 01:06:20,648
You know, I mean, Lenny was
a well-respected actor at that point.
1009
01:06:21,186 --> 01:06:24,565
He had timing and he understood the craft,
he understood the marks,
1010
01:06:24,647 --> 01:06:25,944
he understood about the preparation.
1011
01:06:26,107 --> 01:06:29,906
Without a doubt, Lock, Stock would've been
a great showcase as it was for all of us.
1012
01:06:29,986 --> 01:06:32,239
What the fuck do we know
about antiques, mate?
1013
01:06:32,405 --> 01:06:35,750
If it looks old, it's worth money, simple.
1014
01:06:35,867 --> 01:06:39,462
So stop fucking moaning and rob the place.
1015
01:06:41,039 --> 01:06:43,633
This was the original billboard
that was going to be in the film,
1016
01:06:43,750 --> 01:06:45,922
obviously, for Lock, Stock, and they had
them all on the billboards
1017
01:06:46,002 --> 01:06:47,674
all round sort of London and Shoreditch.
1018
01:06:47,754 --> 01:06:50,969
That would have pleased your dad no end,
Lenny would say, "That's it,
1019
01:06:51,049 --> 01:06:52,846
"I've made it now, that's what I've always...
1020
01:06:52,926 --> 01:06:55,020
"That's what I've been looking for
all these years."
1021
01:06:55,845 --> 01:07:00,271
The tragedy was, you know, as you know,
is that Lenny wasn't completely well
1022
01:07:00,391 --> 01:07:04,983
at that point and one of the great
pleasures and successes of Lock, Stock
1023
01:07:05,063 --> 01:07:07,942
was the fact that it came out and was
number one at the box office
1024
01:07:08,024 --> 01:07:10,026
at the same time as The Guv'nor
was number one as a book.
1025
01:07:16,157 --> 01:07:20,037
And he was alive for that, you know,
so he was there and saw, you know,
1026
01:07:20,119 --> 01:07:21,621
his film and his book
1027
01:07:21,704 --> 01:07:23,957
be at number one simultaneously,
which is amazing.
1028
01:07:24,123 --> 01:07:27,002
But wouldn't it have been nice if your dad
was walking down the street one day
1029
01:07:27,085 --> 01:07:28,339
and a kid come over to him and said,
1030
01:07:28,419 --> 01:07:30,797
"You're Lenny McLean, ain't you?"
instead of saying,
1031
01:07:31,464 --> 01:07:33,717
"You're Lenny McLean,
you're this, you're that, the other,
1032
01:07:33,883 --> 01:07:35,430
"say you're Lenny McLean,
ain't you, the film star?"
1033
01:07:35,969 --> 01:07:37,265
Wouldn't that have been great?
1034
01:07:37,345 --> 01:07:38,892
And wouldn't he have appreciated that?
1035
01:07:38,972 --> 01:07:41,225
He would have loved that,
and that says it all, doesn't it?
1036
01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:53,573
Yeah, no, I got him, he is wearing a roll neck
and he's drinking in Hoxton somewhere.
1037
01:07:53,653 --> 01:07:54,905
That was my mum's wedding.
1038
01:07:54,988 --> 01:07:56,786
- Oh, was it? It wasn't.
- It was, yeah.
1039
01:07:56,990 --> 01:07:58,207
Oh, was it?
1040
01:07:58,992 --> 01:08:01,370
Oh, fuck me, yeah, I wonder
if my dad has got any pictures of that?
1041
01:08:01,452 --> 01:08:02,582
Has your mum got any pictures of it?
1042
01:08:02,662 --> 01:08:05,460
There's one I put indoors, but you can
just see a little bit of Lenny in it...
1043
01:08:05,540 --> 01:08:07,542
He's doing that...
1044
01:08:10,378 --> 01:08:13,507
Yeah, we're trying to...
The thing is, my family are all a bit nuts,
1045
01:08:13,590 --> 01:08:14,842
it's hard to get them on camera.
1046
01:08:27,270 --> 01:08:31,696
I spoke to my dad's sister Boo
and she just said to me that
1047
01:08:31,899 --> 01:08:34,573
they was all very close growing up,
extremely close,
1048
01:08:35,111 --> 01:08:36,950
she said, but there was definitely
something wrong with him,
1049
01:08:37,030 --> 01:08:40,079
she went, forget about the beltings,
she went, there was something,
1050
01:08:40,867 --> 01:08:44,588
there was something deeper, something...
1051
01:08:45,997 --> 01:08:49,627
She just said he was a little bit
bullyish to his family.
1052
01:08:50,043 --> 01:08:52,421
Yeah, it was quite difficult
listening to it, to be fair.
1053
01:08:53,004 --> 01:08:56,094
I think I'm coming to a different conclusion,
1054
01:08:56,174 --> 01:09:00,182
even though he had a brutal upbringing,
I think there was an underlying
1055
01:09:00,595 --> 01:09:01,847
what's the word I am looking for,
1056
01:09:01,929 --> 01:09:04,899
it's something else going on,
there was something,
1057
01:09:05,808 --> 01:09:07,060
what can we say,
1058
01:09:08,311 --> 01:09:11,656
was there some mental issues, was there, or,
1059
01:09:12,857 --> 01:09:14,109
there's something definitely,
1060
01:09:14,233 --> 01:09:17,737
there was definitely something wrong with
his nut, as we would say in the East End,
1061
01:09:17,987 --> 01:09:21,992
and to be fair, it's hard
for me to talk about it, it's quite hard.
1062
01:09:29,582 --> 01:09:31,084
He was a tortured soul.
1063
01:09:32,543 --> 01:09:34,591
I mean, my mum always said that,
you know, he's...
1064
01:09:34,671 --> 01:09:38,767
His nut is not right, it never has been
since she's known him,
1065
01:09:38,925 --> 01:09:41,178
you know, his nut was always going,
that's what he would always say,
1066
01:09:41,260 --> 01:09:42,557
"Oh, me nut's going, me nut's going,"
1067
01:09:42,637 --> 01:09:45,390
you know, that's one of his common things
he would always say.
1068
01:09:46,599 --> 01:09:49,772
I wouldn't say, look, it weren't all
roses and tinkerbells in our house,
1069
01:09:49,852 --> 01:09:52,525
sometimes it would affect us.
1070
01:09:52,605 --> 01:09:54,944
But to be fair, I was never hit as a kid,
1071
01:09:55,024 --> 01:09:57,113
you know, he didn't agree
with hitting children, you know,
1072
01:09:57,193 --> 01:10:00,658
but obviously he shouted
and the shout would obviously do.
1073
01:10:00,738 --> 01:10:02,577
I've not seen him shout
at fully grown men and cry, doormen,
1074
01:10:02,657 --> 01:10:04,580
and make them cry, just by shouting.
1075
01:10:05,243 --> 01:10:09,042
But that's when, you know,
I look back now and think
1076
01:10:09,122 --> 01:10:11,750
why was he angry at that time,
why was he so aggressive,
1077
01:10:11,833 --> 01:10:15,303
and now I'm thinking because he didn't
want to show the weakness of how his nut
1078
01:10:15,503 --> 01:10:18,427
was coping with as we know it now as OCD.
1079
01:10:22,468 --> 01:10:24,515
You know, it's hard for me to talk about it
1080
01:10:24,595 --> 01:10:26,643
because would he have
wanted me to talk about it?
1081
01:10:28,057 --> 01:10:31,482
But we need to know the truth
about what lay behind the violence.
1082
01:10:32,895 --> 01:10:36,569
Other people noticed that he'd have OCD,
especially probably his family.
1083
01:10:36,649 --> 01:10:40,865
Like he'd come home from school,
count his steps, say his steps was 150 steps.
1084
01:10:40,945 --> 01:10:44,369
The next day, he'd go and count the steps
again to come home,
1085
01:10:44,449 --> 01:10:47,538
and it'd be 148 steps, so he'd have to go
all the way back to school
1086
01:10:47,618 --> 01:10:50,542
and count the 150 steps,
so it was 150 steps and do that again.
1087
01:10:50,705 --> 01:10:52,207
And that, he had to do that
until that was right
1088
01:10:52,290 --> 01:10:54,213
and then that's
the sort of things he would do.
1089
01:10:55,376 --> 01:10:58,424
He'd say, "Oh, I forgot,
there's a matchstick somewhere,"
1090
01:10:58,504 --> 01:11:02,008
and he'd have to go back to a matchstick
in the street somewhere,
1091
01:11:02,091 --> 01:11:06,722
literally get on a bus, go back, pick it up,
and then go "Nine-ten, nine-ten," and then go.
1092
01:11:06,846 --> 01:11:10,441
He found a wage packet when he was
younger and it had nine-ten in it,
1093
01:11:10,767 --> 01:11:14,021
and he would always repeat that
and I used to think to myself,
1094
01:11:14,103 --> 01:11:15,441
"Why does he keep saying nine-ten?"
1095
01:11:15,521 --> 01:11:17,444
So throughout his life, "Nine ten, nine-ten."
1096
01:11:17,899 --> 01:11:19,867
And that was lucky,
that's why he would say it.
1097
01:11:22,028 --> 01:11:24,450
You know, he'd repeat himself,
he talked in the mirror a lot.
1098
01:11:24,530 --> 01:11:25,827
I mean, he did like the mirror to be fair.
1099
01:11:25,907 --> 01:11:28,660
I mean, I think if he could have one
surgically put on the front of his face,
1100
01:11:28,743 --> 01:11:31,462
he would definitely have had one
because he was constantly looking in it.
1101
01:11:32,371 --> 01:11:35,420
I think he see someone in the street that
he used to work with when he left school,
1102
01:11:35,500 --> 01:11:36,626
when he was a window cleaner,
1103
01:11:36,709 --> 01:11:40,555
and he hadn't seen this guy for 25 years,
so he's come home to my mum and said,
1104
01:11:40,797 --> 01:11:43,261
"Val, I've just seen so and so,
what's his name?"
1105
01:11:43,341 --> 01:11:46,971
And my mum said, "I didn't know you
really then, Len, I don't know his name."
1106
01:11:47,178 --> 01:11:49,142
"I've got to," and he would go on
and he went on for weeks,
1107
01:11:49,222 --> 01:11:50,269
"I need to know this name."
1108
01:11:50,473 --> 01:11:52,395
Morning, noon, and night,
"What's this geezer's name?"
1109
01:11:52,475 --> 01:11:55,523
So that would play on his mind for two
to three weeks to find out who this man was,
1110
01:11:55,603 --> 01:11:58,356
she would've found out the geezer's name,
told my dad and he went,
1111
01:11:58,481 --> 01:12:00,734
"Oh, that's it," and he wouldn't
mention it ever again.
1112
01:12:03,069 --> 01:12:05,993
As soon as he found out his mind was settled,
he would go on to something else.
1113
01:12:06,197 --> 01:12:10,668
I'm not saying people in the East End
are ignorant, but there was a, you know,
1114
01:12:11,327 --> 01:12:16,049
there wasn't an understanding about OCD
or even dyslexia, autism,
1115
01:12:16,541 --> 01:12:20,465
so someone who done that, they just
got classed as being a nutter or mad,
1116
01:12:20,545 --> 01:12:23,219
so it was a stigma,
but no one would tell Lenny to his face.
1117
01:12:24,298 --> 01:12:27,973
It must've been very, very difficult for him
to have a problem like that,
1118
01:12:28,177 --> 01:12:29,474
it was a vulnerability.
1119
01:12:29,762 --> 01:12:31,435
He must've had a protection up.
1120
01:12:33,015 --> 01:12:36,731
When he felt like that,
because he was such a man's man,
1121
01:12:36,811 --> 01:12:38,654
I think it would develop into anger.
1122
01:12:40,189 --> 01:12:43,910
He dealt with it the best way he could,
he never sat with a therapist.
1123
01:12:44,151 --> 01:12:46,870
My generation, we go
and have therapy twice a week,
1124
01:12:47,989 --> 01:12:49,832
but, you know, they were real men.
1125
01:12:49,949 --> 01:12:52,747
They didn't go to doctors
if their leg was hanging off, you know,
1126
01:12:52,827 --> 01:12:54,290
they was, they get shot
1127
01:12:54,370 --> 01:12:58,500
and went down the hospital
and then come out and had a big cream cake.
1128
01:12:59,333 --> 01:13:02,837
That's, that's a different world,
we're a different breed nowadays.
1129
01:13:03,754 --> 01:13:06,758
We're very narcissistic,
we're into ourselves, we're into our being.
1130
01:13:07,258 --> 01:13:09,556
iPhone generation now, we are.
1131
01:13:12,054 --> 01:13:14,477
You know, I just think
it's all the emotion of filming,
1132
01:13:14,557 --> 01:13:17,731
it's all got a bit on top of me, really,
to be fair, it's been quite hard.
1133
01:13:38,289 --> 01:13:39,336
It was nothing, sorry, mate.
1134
01:13:39,498 --> 01:13:41,671
Now, gentleman. How old are you?
1135
01:13:41,834 --> 01:13:43,923
This is, this is a fucking
12-year-old schoolboy.
1136
01:13:44,003 --> 01:13:45,346
No you're right, it's all right.
1137
01:13:45,755 --> 01:13:49,510
We split, nothing, we spilt teas on each
other, it was a tease, but it was wrong.
1138
01:13:49,592 --> 01:13:51,094
Just had an argument, that was all, nothing.
1139
01:13:51,344 --> 01:13:53,641
- Honestly, Officer, nothing was done.
- Are you working?
1140
01:13:53,721 --> 01:13:55,064
Yeah, we're filming, yeah.
1141
01:14:03,564 --> 01:14:05,066
What the fuck was that all about?
1142
01:14:05,149 --> 01:14:08,073
Have a fight in the middle of a restaurant,
just done four months.
1143
01:14:08,361 --> 01:14:10,908
What the fuck is wrong with you? Seriously.
1144
01:14:10,988 --> 01:14:13,582
He was being, he was being leery to me, Jo.
1145
01:14:14,533 --> 01:14:16,247
The police are outside, someone's filmed you.
1146
01:14:16,327 --> 01:14:18,541
If somebody had come,
you're back inside for six months.
1147
01:14:18,621 --> 01:14:21,625
You've got to control
your fucking temper, Jamie.
1148
01:14:22,875 --> 01:14:27,550
You know, it does my nut, I've
got a, I need something to take it away.
1149
01:14:27,630 --> 01:14:30,428
Cos I'm, now I've gone in there,
but I didn't say nothing to him straight away.
1150
01:14:30,508 --> 01:14:33,347
He said summat and I sat down and I said,
"Have you got a problem or summat?"
1151
01:14:33,427 --> 01:14:35,270
He's got to say something,
he's a little bit older than me
1152
01:14:35,429 --> 01:14:37,852
so now he has to say something,
I said, "Fuck it," I went to grab him.
1153
01:14:37,932 --> 01:14:39,434
Now I've gone in there
and caused absolute murder
1154
01:14:39,517 --> 01:14:43,941
with cups and saucers have gone
everywhere, so, but, oh, I don't know.
1155
01:14:44,021 --> 01:14:46,360
I just... I like to be
tucked up indoors, I know.
1156
01:14:46,440 --> 01:14:48,779
- It's emotional, talking about it.
- I know.
1157
01:14:48,859 --> 01:14:51,533
It's even emotional
me coming down Hoxton again.
1158
01:14:51,654 --> 01:14:53,367
Yeah, I don't come here,
you know what I'm saying?
1159
01:14:53,447 --> 01:14:54,535
I don't come here.
1160
01:14:54,615 --> 01:14:56,537
When I see all the hipsters
and the change of it all,
1161
01:14:56,617 --> 01:15:01,208
and I got my old flatmate
who's talking about Lenny,
1162
01:15:01,288 --> 01:15:03,256
it's difficult, it's difficult.
1163
01:15:10,423 --> 01:15:13,552
At some point,
it's a good thing being his son
1164
01:15:13,634 --> 01:15:15,598
and then that point,
1165
01:15:15,678 --> 01:15:19,308
it's a bad thing to be his son
because obviously people think
1166
01:15:20,141 --> 01:15:22,360
you're the same, you know,
you're the same as him.
1167
01:15:25,438 --> 01:15:29,284
I am similar to him in a lot of ways
with our sense of humour, funny, but...
1168
01:15:31,318 --> 01:15:32,865
But we have got a certain
1169
01:15:34,196 --> 01:15:37,700
streak in us, like our tempers
can go very quickly.
1170
01:15:37,825 --> 01:15:39,827
I don't really go out
that much anywhere any more,
1171
01:15:39,910 --> 01:15:42,914
cos I just don't want to get
in any more altercations,
1172
01:15:42,997 --> 01:15:45,591
like I'm one punch away from going to prison
1173
01:15:47,001 --> 01:15:49,629
for however long it would be, I don't know.
1174
01:15:55,926 --> 01:15:59,016
I had been skiing in Italy
and I spoke to my mum
1175
01:15:59,096 --> 01:16:01,269
and she said, "Look, you need to come home,
Daddy's not very well,"
1176
01:16:01,390 --> 01:16:04,814
and I can remember walking in,
but he hadn't sort of shrunk,
1177
01:16:04,894 --> 01:16:07,108
but he had lost a lot of weight
off the shoulders
1178
01:16:07,188 --> 01:16:08,651
so I said, "Oh," I said,
"Dad, you don't look well,"
1179
01:16:08,731 --> 01:16:11,278
and he said, "No, I think I'm all right,
I think I got a bit of pleurisy,"
1180
01:16:11,358 --> 01:16:12,735
so I said, "No, no,
we need to go to the hospital."
1181
01:16:12,943 --> 01:16:15,822
Put my dad in the car, we drove him up
to the hospital in Sidcup
1182
01:16:15,905 --> 01:16:18,158
and they bought him in and they said,
"Oh, he don't look very well,"
1183
01:16:18,240 --> 01:16:19,787
and they done a few tests on him
1184
01:16:20,910 --> 01:16:22,581
and they said, you know,
"We've done a scan on you,"
1185
01:16:22,661 --> 01:16:27,087
and they said it's cancer
and it's spread to your brain
1186
01:16:27,458 --> 01:16:30,678
and we're going to give you
eight months to live.
1187
01:16:33,214 --> 01:16:35,216
You always thought that he was invincible.
1188
01:16:36,008 --> 01:16:38,431
This sort of thing
can't happen to Lenny, you know.
1189
01:16:39,970 --> 01:16:42,309
Actually, when the cancer
was like in its advanced stages,
1190
01:16:42,389 --> 01:16:44,733
I remember like my mum would,
she would go to the shops
1191
01:16:44,850 --> 01:16:46,647
and go, "Len, Len," and he wouldn't answer,
1192
01:16:46,727 --> 01:16:48,604
so she'd go up the stairs
and he'd be sitting in bed
1193
01:16:48,687 --> 01:16:51,610
with his eyes open stiff and we'd thought
he had died and she would go, "Len, Len!"
1194
01:16:51,690 --> 01:16:53,529
"Oh, no, I'm only joking.
Did you get my cream cakes?
1195
01:16:53,609 --> 01:16:54,735
"Did you get my Magnum lollies?"
1196
01:16:54,819 --> 01:16:56,947
And she'd go, "Don't do that!"
And she'd be hitting him...
1197
01:16:57,071 --> 01:16:59,824
He'd be laughing and like,
you know, he's dying,
1198
01:16:59,907 --> 01:17:01,909
but he was still liked practical jokes.
1199
01:17:04,120 --> 01:17:06,584
And he always smoked his roll-ups, even,
there was no point in giving up
1200
01:17:06,664 --> 01:17:08,041
because the damage was already done
1201
01:17:08,124 --> 01:17:11,213
and I can remember
there was no toilet upstairs in the house,
1202
01:17:11,293 --> 01:17:12,965
and I can remember like 4:00 in the morning,
1203
01:17:13,045 --> 01:17:15,757
him tumbling down the stairs where he is
trying to get up and go to the toilet
1204
01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:17,762
and I've turned the light on
and go, "Dad, are you all right?"
1205
01:17:17,842 --> 01:17:19,805
And he went, "Don't worry
I haven't dropped the roll-up."
1206
01:17:19,885 --> 01:17:21,307
And like he still had the roll-up in his hand
1207
01:17:21,387 --> 01:17:23,890
and he was literally in a pile
at the bottom of the stairs.
1208
01:17:24,056 --> 01:17:25,478
The MacMillan nurse, they said,
1209
01:17:25,558 --> 01:17:28,437
"What we are going to do
is we will set a toilet upstairs for him,"
1210
01:17:28,519 --> 01:17:32,240
and my mum went, "The day
Lenny can't get up and use the toilet,
1211
01:17:33,691 --> 01:17:35,068
"that is the day that he will die."
1212
01:17:36,902 --> 01:17:38,199
And she was 100% right.
1213
01:17:43,033 --> 01:17:45,752
His funeral was very impressive.
1214
01:17:46,287 --> 01:17:49,541
We probably had probably
15, 20 cars of family
1215
01:17:49,665 --> 01:17:52,880
and then there was
about 60 cars following, I would say.
1216
01:17:52,960 --> 01:17:55,174
The streets were lined with people.
1217
01:17:55,254 --> 01:17:58,133
Thousands and thousands
and thousands of people
1218
01:17:58,215 --> 01:18:00,468
to see Lenny off, you know.
That's incredible.
1219
01:18:01,177 --> 01:18:03,140
And like it was just like
a massive procession.
1220
01:18:03,220 --> 01:18:05,684
There was sort of all news cameras
doing interviews with people
1221
01:18:05,764 --> 01:18:09,810
and everyone reckoned they knew him or he
lived in the Roman or he lived in Hoxton.
1222
01:18:09,894 --> 01:18:11,237
It was pretty powerful.
1223
01:18:13,022 --> 01:18:14,068
Is that a bad guy?
1224
01:18:14,148 --> 01:18:17,780
Do people do that for someone who
goes around hurting people for no reason?
1225
01:18:17,860 --> 01:18:20,989
No, they don't do that, no,
cos they knew Lenny for what he was.
1226
01:18:21,071 --> 01:18:24,917
He was a nice man and make,
give a lot of people
1227
01:18:25,034 --> 01:18:26,832
a lot of fun along the way,
believe me, you know.
1228
01:18:33,500 --> 01:18:34,839
A funny story always sticks in my head.
1229
01:18:34,919 --> 01:18:36,507
I remember they were down Clacton
1230
01:18:36,587 --> 01:18:39,807
and someone come up to me and said,
"Oh, I see your mum and dad in Clacton."
1231
01:18:40,090 --> 01:18:41,637
He had his hand on the top of her head.
1232
01:18:41,717 --> 01:18:44,390
He said, "Why does he do that?"
I said, "I'll tell you why he does that."
1233
01:18:44,470 --> 01:18:45,808
I said, "He does it in case he thinks
1234
01:18:45,888 --> 01:18:47,390
"anything's going to fall on her head
and hurt her."
1235
01:18:47,473 --> 01:18:49,019
I said, "It's just a little funny thing
that he does."
1236
01:18:49,099 --> 01:18:50,146
Nothing's going to fall on his head,
1237
01:18:50,226 --> 01:18:52,273
but it's just a little funny joke
they have between theirselves.
1238
01:18:52,353 --> 01:18:53,650
I said, "And that is why he does it."
1239
01:19:06,533 --> 01:19:08,956
Erm, making the documentary,
1240
01:19:09,954 --> 01:19:14,084
at first I thought it was a really good idea
making the film.
1241
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:17,628
I wanted to interview people
that knew him or had stories,
1242
01:19:17,711 --> 01:19:19,884
negative or positive, it didn't matter to me.
1243
01:19:19,964 --> 01:19:22,808
But was I going around looking
for too much negativity?
1244
01:19:26,720 --> 01:19:30,811
"Beloved husband, father, Leonard John
Frederick McLean, The Guv'nor.
1245
01:19:30,891 --> 01:19:34,236
"He died in 28.07.1998."
1246
01:19:34,645 --> 01:19:38,861
And this is a sad one, "In loving memory
of Valerie Georgina McLean,
1247
01:19:38,941 --> 01:19:42,662
"best mum in the world. Will always
miss you forever, Jamie and Kelly."
1248
01:19:42,778 --> 01:19:47,875
She died 18.12.2007, 56. All very young.
1249
01:19:48,659 --> 01:19:52,709
You know, you look at it there,
age 46, me nan, 49, my dad.
1250
01:19:53,497 --> 01:19:56,592
It's, oh, it's no age, is it?
You ain't even had a life.
1251
01:19:57,418 --> 01:19:58,465
Ain't had a life then.
1252
01:19:58,585 --> 01:20:01,300
This is where you end up, it's just...
1253
01:20:01,380 --> 01:20:04,680
It's just, you know, this is the, you know,
your last journey, you end up here.
1254
01:20:05,509 --> 01:20:06,761
It's heart-breaking, innit?
1255
01:20:07,136 --> 01:20:08,474
And this is my Christmas now, I mean,
1256
01:20:08,554 --> 01:20:12,809
I said earlier on that all my good memories
at Christmas and laughing,
1257
01:20:13,434 --> 01:20:14,435
you know.
1258
01:20:14,518 --> 01:20:16,020
Christmas is quite a good time
for people now.
1259
01:20:16,103 --> 01:20:17,901
My Christmas mornings,
I have to come here, reluctantly,
1260
01:20:19,940 --> 01:20:21,317
I don't want to come here
to see my mum and dad,
1261
01:20:21,400 --> 01:20:24,449
I want to go and see them
at their house, happy and laughing.
1262
01:20:28,073 --> 01:20:32,328
All he wanted to do was better himself,
provide for his family and which he did.
1263
01:20:32,411 --> 01:20:35,210
He was a good father and a good husband.
1264
01:20:36,206 --> 01:20:37,670
We're celebrating it,
that's what we are doing.
1265
01:20:37,750 --> 01:20:39,338
We're not doing a film,
we're not doing a documentary,
1266
01:20:39,418 --> 01:20:44,891
we're celebrating a man
that come from nothing to become something.
1267
01:20:48,177 --> 01:20:50,054
Well, fuck me, what's that? What is that?
1268
01:20:52,139 --> 01:20:53,891
That is what my dad would do.
1269
01:20:54,850 --> 01:20:56,602
I am my father's son.
1270
01:21:05,152 --> 01:21:06,825
So... Um...
1271
01:21:09,490 --> 01:21:10,867
Sorry, force of habit.
1272
01:21:12,993 --> 01:21:15,337
I punch someone in the face,
I'm going to prison.
1273
01:21:15,788 --> 01:21:19,503
No matter what I do, it's going
to be highlighted 100 times worse
1274
01:21:19,583 --> 01:21:20,879
than what it is by the police.
1275
01:21:20,959 --> 01:21:24,088
They had a dossier like that
about my old man when I went to court.
1276
01:21:24,171 --> 01:21:25,259
I mean, what has that got to...
1277
01:21:25,339 --> 01:21:28,889
What has my old man got to do with me
having a fight for 10 seconds somewhere?
1278
01:21:29,426 --> 01:21:34,432
So are you paying for the sins of your
father? I think we are, I think we do.
1279
01:21:34,556 --> 01:21:35,808
I think I did.
1280
01:21:37,601 --> 01:21:39,565
Yeah, I can't say I wouldn't be
in that position again
1281
01:21:39,645 --> 01:21:41,147
because if someone did push me,
1282
01:21:41,230 --> 01:21:43,402
I think I would probably, yeah, I would snap.
1283
01:21:43,482 --> 01:21:46,736
Yeah, I would. I wouldn't be able to
keep my hands to myself definitely.
1284
01:21:46,819 --> 01:21:49,698
I wouldn't be able to let someone
pick on me and my family,
1285
01:21:49,780 --> 01:21:51,157
I don't think I could do it.
1286
01:21:53,325 --> 01:21:56,749
I mean, I'm 45 now,
who wants to end up in prison?
1287
01:21:56,829 --> 01:21:58,172
It's no place for no one.
1288
01:22:04,837 --> 01:22:06,054
You sound a bit of a bully.
1289
01:22:06,422 --> 01:22:08,641
No, you're joking. Gentleman.
1290
01:22:09,383 --> 01:22:11,056
Not a bully. A gentleman.
1291
01:22:23,063 --> 01:22:25,402
Do you know the family,
the McLeans and the Walls?
1292
01:22:25,482 --> 01:22:27,155
- I have heard the name of it, yeah.
- Yeah.
1293
01:22:30,154 --> 01:22:32,907
- Have you ever heard of the McLeans?
- Oh, yes, yes.
1294
01:22:33,574 --> 01:22:35,042
- Oh, I know Lenny.
- Yeah?
1295
01:22:38,078 --> 01:22:39,625
- Do you remember Lenny McLean?
- Yeah.
1296
01:22:39,705 --> 01:22:42,049
- I'm his boy, Jamie. Yeah.
- Are you?
1297
01:22:45,085 --> 01:22:48,923
- Lenny McLean? Do you know Lenny?
- Knock him out.
1298
01:22:50,424 --> 01:22:51,801
We're doing a documentary about him.
1299
01:22:51,884 --> 01:22:53,761
- Are you? Of course I knew him.
- Did you know Lenny?
1300
01:22:56,805 --> 01:22:58,394
- Did you know him?
- Knew Lenny well, yeah.
1301
01:22:58,474 --> 01:23:00,226
Did you, what did you go to school
round here as well?
1302
01:23:00,309 --> 01:23:02,981
Well, no, I used to be a chauffeur
and I used to drive, meet him up there
1303
01:23:03,061 --> 01:23:04,904
- when he used to work at Camden.
- Yeah.
1304
01:23:07,983 --> 01:23:11,658
He asked to have the carwash and Lenny
used to bring his black Ford Granada...
1305
01:23:11,778 --> 01:23:12,779
- Yeah.
- And he used to
1306
01:23:12,863 --> 01:23:15,116
come down with Johnny, Fat Nose Johnny.
1307
01:23:18,118 --> 01:23:19,790
What was my old man like when he was younger?
1308
01:23:19,870 --> 01:23:23,043
He was a bit of a nuisance round here when
he was younger, do you know what I mean?
1309
01:23:23,123 --> 01:23:26,844
- Murder, murder. Yeah, I liked him, yeah.
- Yeah.
1310
01:23:30,380 --> 01:23:33,008
He never done me any harm,
he was polite to me.
1311
01:23:33,091 --> 01:23:34,593
Didn't get too involved with him,
1312
01:23:34,676 --> 01:23:35,722
- you know what I mean?
- Yeah.
1313
01:23:35,802 --> 01:23:38,350
Everybody labelled as a bully,
but he weren't.
1314
01:23:38,430 --> 01:23:41,980
They talked about the bad things he done
on one hand,
1315
01:23:42,100 --> 01:23:43,689
but the good things he done
they won't tell you.
1316
01:23:43,769 --> 01:23:45,146
He was a blinding geezer,
1317
01:23:45,229 --> 01:23:46,947
- bailed me out on a number of occasions.
- Yeah.
1318
01:23:49,942 --> 01:23:52,030
I always say they're
one of the boys from Hoxton.
1319
01:23:52,110 --> 01:23:53,157
Yeah, that's it.
1320
01:23:53,237 --> 01:23:55,659
And we always said we had our road,
1321
01:23:55,739 --> 01:23:57,582
- but they never robbed their own.
- No.
1322
01:24:23,308 --> 01:24:25,310
I'm standing on the door like me old man,
1323
01:24:25,394 --> 01:24:27,271
but I think I'm a little bit more
immaculately dressed.
1324
01:24:27,938 --> 01:24:30,402
All right, Sam?
Got a bee in my bonnet about him.
1325
01:24:30,482 --> 01:24:32,529
No, he didn't even talk like that.
He went, "Hello, dinky."
1326
01:24:32,609 --> 01:24:34,737
That's how he spoke really,
that was all for the camera.
1327
01:24:34,820 --> 01:24:36,538
He would go, "Hello, all right, kids?"
1328
01:24:36,697 --> 01:24:38,118
That's how he spoke, that's how we all speak.
1329
01:24:38,198 --> 01:24:42,248
All the McLeans speak like that,
"Hello, right. Oh, doo-dee-dee."
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