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![](/staticarchive/5ea3e7590d674d9be4582cc6f6c8e86070157686.gif) The Hackney Lion
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![](/staticarchive/5ea3e7590d674d9be4582cc6f6c8e86070157686.gif) In North-East London at The Hackney Empire, somewhere between 1949 and 1951,the old Music Hall聽was perhaps a little past its hey day but was still pulling them in on a Saturday night. John Miles, today a sage and responsible citizen, was then a self-confessed Jack the Lad who recalls with unalloyed glee the succession of moth-eaten acts that entertained him and his friends.
The way John tells it - The Hackney Empire on a Saturday night would have given the notoriously riotous Elizabethan Bear Garden a run for its money.
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