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Alan Lake was sacked on the first day of filming, after getting drunk at lunchtime. He was only reinstated after his wife, actress Diana Dors, undertook to keep him sober during the film's shoot.
Dave Hill had a double for the sequence where Flame ascend to Radio City, as he disliked heights.
Noddy Holder's opinion of his band's acting: "We got away with it!"
As Slade were seen as a "happy-go-lucky" group, this film was to be the slow demise of their career, as the film was seen as too down beat and depressing. The film was just too realistic for their image to sustain.
"The Tower of Power" Radio City was a genuine pirate station. Sited on the former Thames Estuary Maunsell army fort Shivering Sands (one of three WWII anti-aircraft defense installations built in 1943) ten miles out to sea from Whitstable, it broadcast between 1964 and 1967, transmitting on 299 metres (approx 1000 khz). By the time the film was shot, the transmitting antenna had been removed. Footage of a genuine boarding attempt on 20th June 1966 can be seen on a TV news report.
"Jack Daniels: [shouts over the din of a poor drum solo audition] Not your actual Gene Krupa is he? Barry: Who's she? Jack Daniels: Before your time."
"Jack Daniels: [after been given their work schedule] Thanks Mrs. B. Two pubs, four socials and a bloody jacaranda club. Charlie: Not a bad week though. Ron Harding's secretary: Not a bad month."
