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Dan Treacy

Phone Hacking: Why I Turned Down Compensation From News of the World

Alan_McGee | Posted 10.02.2012 | UK Entertainment
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Alan_McGee

On the News of the World happenings, my lawyer has given the police 14 days to disclose evidence they hold and if not he'll be asking why not? The lawyers representing the hackers have already offered me the compensation scheme, which we have rejected.

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Jimmy Savile, Reflections on Creation and the Fight for Hay-On-Wye's Future

Alan_McGee | Posted 30.12.2011 | UK
Read More: Dan Treacy, Creation Records, Alan McGee, Tony Blair, Bbc, UK, Hay-on-Wye, Sir Jimmy Savile, Jimmy Savile, UK Entertainment, Jimmy Saville, UK News
Alan_McGee

I'd like to pay my respects and say R.I.P to Sir Jimmy Savile, who died on Saturday. I met him only once, weirdly, it was at a dinner at Chequers in October 1999. I was first to arrive that evening (sad but true) and I was standing talking to Tony Blair, who was rocking his Gap casuals. Anyway, who is the next guest to arrive, but Jimmy Savile. At that point I thought life is definitely getting surreal. Rock 'n' roll to the end, he spent the entire night trying with persistence to chat up my wife, Kate. He was a rock 'n' roller even in his 70s, a bit like my Dad. Actually, my Dad just does the rock 'n' roll, not the charity work.

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