Kes wrote:Not just coaches, but also cars, and apparently bikes, and pedestrians too.
I don't know whether the poor fella walked out, or not, as it happened too far behind me to see, but I do remember the St John's Ambulance people frantically pushing through the crowd to get to the bloke. You can only really assume the message was passed to them via the main stage area and the people in the lighting tower talking to them.
The first thing I saw was the roadies on walkie-talkie/radio things all of a sudden start to go frantic and jumping over the poles that separated the enclosure from the main audience area - these were in a criss-cross manner separating the two fences and they had to carefully jump over these and run along to where they dismantled the fence (corner of guest enclosure). They had backed an ambulance up to the fence inside the enclosure and I saw the guy supported by two (St. John's Ambulance people I think) guys walk out and up into the ambulance.
Either before this or after this happened a guy and a girl (off their tits - wild eyes and looked like they were on acid) clambered over the fence and into the enclosure right in front of me: whether or not this had anything to do with what happened I don't know but there were some strange people there that day.
I remember the press about the riot in Stirling from the time - and they'd already done 3 or 4 encores.
The only other time (in my experience) that a Queen gig was hair-raising was outside the venue in Dortmund in 1982: a big venue (8-10,000?) with 3 doors the size of a household door, to let the audience in through. The other side of which the security body-searched every single person that went thru. Outside, and in a bottle neck, with everyone pushing to get thru the doors, were about 30 (British - typical...) drunken squaddies from the nearby army base. Blind drunk and who'd been throwing bottles around prior to this - that was a little unnerving but mainly because of the extreme crush.
I remember someone I knew telling me that the crew saved the day at the front in Paris 1979, when there was a nasty situation between some guys in the 'Royal Family' and some locals - Crystal jumped into the audience with a cymbal stand to sort out that one.
It was rare for stuff to happen but occasionally it did...