Charlie Richardson dies at 78, former gangster featured on Your Arsenal tour imagery

Charlie Richardson: Rival gangster of The Krays dies - BBC News
Former London gangster Charlie Richardson has died at the age of 78.



Morrissey used an image of Charlie Richardson on the Your Arsenal inner sleeve and also as a backdrop and on tour merchandise on the Your Arsenal tour (scan of Your Arsenal tour program cover from Vulgar Picture):

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sad to hear...
If anyone doesn't know his life story about himself and his gang, you're missing out :p
Fascinating
 
No I don't really no the story, just what I saw in the paper famous for using six inch nails to nail his victims to the floor before torturing them? that's sad to hear..
 
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No I don't really no the story, just what I saw in the paper famous for using six inch nails to nail his victims to the floor before torturing them? that's sad to hear..

it is spelled "know".
 
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lowlife thug and torturer. No great loss

Morrissey used him to further his career. Horrible. Not into that.
 
It's just struck me for the first time that this image has an echo of the Years of Refusal cover.
 
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lowlife thug and torturer. No great loss

This.
Will be just another excuse for people like Barbara Windsor to glorify past actions..... the usual cliches..... ''they never harmed women or children....''
 
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You don't remember what you wrote earlier?

Yes Kewpie, I knew what was meant, I was just baiting the sad lot.
 
Got a t shirt with tour dates and this pic, white, but no green innit bit purple around nicholson and the kid USA 1992

[thx J.P.]

all the 50/60's gone, lyricwise

only Moors murderes Myra Hindley , but she will die in prison as her partner in crime

Thatcher and the Queen Mother and Charles survived [they're criminal in historic point of vieuw]
 
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Got a t shirt with tour dates and this pic, white, but no green innit bit purple around nicholson and the kid USA 1992

[thx J.P.]

all the 50/60's gone, lyricwise

only Moors murderes Myra Hindley , but she will die in prison as her partner in crime

Thatcher and the Queen Mother and Charles survived [they're criminal in historic point of vieuw]

Didn't Hindley die in 2002 or 03?

I didn't know anything about this man, but the six inch nails creep me out!!

And whoever pointed out the resemblance to the cover of YoR...it does remind me of this photo!! :eek:
 
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only Moors murderes Myra Hindley , but she will die in prison as her partner in crime

Thatcher and the Queen Mother and Charles survived [they're criminal in historic point of vieuw]

Clueless mindless drivel. Even for you, Celibate.

Just because your daft mind thinks it, doesn't make it true. Get someone with a grain of reality to peer review your posts in future.
 
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Didn't Hindley die in 2002 or 03?

The Moors murderer Myra Hindley died in hospital aged 60 - Friday 15 November 2002 18.01 GMT after suffering respiratory failure.

She was taken to West Suffolk hospital at Bury St Edmunds with a suspected heart attack.

Hindley, a chain smoker, had experienced ill-health for much of her 36 years behind bars, suffering from angina, suspected strokes and osteoporosis.

Brady, now 64, is currently being held at the high security Ashworth Hospital on Merseyside, where he is on hunger strike and being fed through a plastic tube.

He has failed in several legal attempts to be allowed to starve himself to death.

Pauline Read was the first child to suffer at the hands of Brady and Hindley's. The 16-year-old vanished on July 12 1963 on her way to a disco near her home in Gorton, Manchester.

John Kilbride vanished four months after Pauline - He was lured up on to the moor, sexually assaulted and murdered.

The next victim, 12-year-old Keith Bennett, has never been discovered. He vanished after leaving his home in Chorlton-on-Medlock in Manchester on June 16 1964.

Lesley Ann Downey was murdered on Boxing Day, 1964. The 10-year-old - was enticed from a fairground to the house Hindley shared with her grandmother in Hattersley.
In Hindley's bedroom, she was stripped, sexually abused and tortured as they forced her to pose for pornographic photographs.
The harrowing attack was recorded on audio tape by Hindley. The tape lasted 16 minutes 21 seconds.
 
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"used an image of Charlie Richardson as a backdrop on the Your Arsenal tour and also the tour merchandise"?
Errr...Did you forget it was actually used in the Your Arsenal CD booklet/LP inner sleeve as well? Or did you just download the album off your mate? ;)
 
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It's just struck me for the first time that this image has an echo of the Years of Refusal cover.

Yeah, I noticed that too and commented somewhere back in 2009. I also noticed that Huggies may have used the idea as well. Have you seen the commerical where "Dads" play with their babies to test the durability of the diapers? (One "Dad" looks like he's even taking a sniff, ewwww!) Well, the print ad for that campaign was very reminiscent to the Years of Refusal cover.
 

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