Shakin' Stevens - for those of you not in the know, he is a Welsh glam rock'n'roller from the 70s, a one-hit wonder but has been relatively succesful due to his masculine charms and massive...female fanbase. He is sort of a poor man's Cliff Richard.
Well, anyway, apparently 'Shaky' was giving a 'concert' in Perth, and was approached by a woman with a camera mid-performance. She was snapping away, and he apparently made some gesture of protestation. She carried on snapping despite her idol's apparent discomfort...only for Shakin Stevens (real name Mr Michael Barrett m'lud) to grab her pink Olympus Mu, and throw it across the hall..smashing it into smithereens!
She waited to confront him after the gig...only for him to refuse to speak to her. To his credit, he gave her 300 nicker for a new camera...but the poor girl was crestfallen. Her idol for so long, reduced to smash'n'grab thug overnight!
She was pictured today, alongside her 'Shaky' LP collection, looking forlorn. Presumably Shaky has lost a fan....and he needs all the fans he can get.
There is no record of this online...Scots Sun not available on the internet (conspiracy? pro-shaky media blackout perhaps?), but the good deniens of http://www.forevershakin.co.uk have a good deal to say on the matter. Some obviously with Shaky on this one, some appalled at his uncouth behaviour toward a lady fan.
yeah shaky was right to do what he did, a girl got up and tried to get a close up shot of shaky, in which he grabbed her camera and threw it to the far side of the room Hilarious......this is why elvis had bad eyes and shaky made the comment that it was affecting him with all the flashes....................JUST DONT DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Red55
I´m totally shocked about Shaky ´s behaviour!!
Beeing a Massive loyal fan since 1980, seeing him live 9 times, I ´ve never seen him act this rude!!
I takled to him twice, and he´s was extremly nice, gentle, down to earth!
So acting the way he just did, with this ladys camere-phone, was a very bad thing to do..
I loose my respect to people like this!
Shakin Johnny
Let this be a warning to anyone who trys to snap EC next tour...he might just end up throwing your Fuji at you!
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