Adrian Street

Adrian Street's show evolved on a yearly basis from about 1968.

Matching dyed blond hair with Bobby, and the little wings.

Then the leather jackets and longer hair. My favourite phase as described by several others above.

Then Adrian Street Esquire with gold lamé and feathers - quite stunning.

Then sequins and other antics which I didn't see as he joined Pallo Promotions before leaving for the USA.

I have to come back to my often repeated point about not applying too much hindsight. I can vividly remember seeing the Hells Angels in 1971. On the one hand, the very name of Hells Angels. These were the very dangerous motor-bikers who had been involved in all those seaside confrontations in the sixties, the time of the Mods & Rockers. Those days, also of the 1966 Battle of Box Hill, were fresh in the memory.

Then again, they did our heads in with prancing around effeminitely inside physiques that were more developed than most other wrestlers at the time.

They were genius in rolling into one presentation the intimidating original aspect of 1960s Hells Angels with 1968's legalisation of homosexuality, bringing within the spectators' gaze a sight they may not have otherwise seen in their everyday lives. Mind you, they drew the line at homosexuality: they were camp without ever implying relations with opponets or each other. They were very careful about that.

It really took some guts for them to carry off this risky show at that time.

In parallel, we saw Dale Martin's similarly playing on the 1968 film Oliver by taking two other undercarders - as Street & Barnes had been - in Conlon & Bailey and turning them into The Artful Dodgers. They were ok but didn't make it in the same way. So DM were cautious and kept even the tag team of the Hells Angels out of top-of-the-bill and we had great value in seeing them for a couple of years in first or even only second supporting bouts.

Mind you, DMs probably kept paying them undercarders' wages all through this....