Rolf Harris Pelted With Bottles And Full Beer Cans
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- čas přidán 23. 06. 2012
- In 1979, a New Year's Eve concert on the steps of the Sydney Opera House turned into a drunken bloodbath. Shortly after walking on stage (but not shown in this clip), Rolf Harris picked up one of the empty beer cans hurled at him and went to take a drink. "Ahh, it's empty!" Funny?
Soon, full cans of beer came flying out of the crowd. Harris got hit at least 3 times. Unfortunately, he sustained no injuries.
Later in the evening, however, Australia's legendary hard rockers The Angels were hit by cans, empty champagne bottles and sheets of signage, ripped from the front of the stage.
This was Australia's Altamont. Live concerts at the Sydney Opera House were banned for decades. Such levels of drunkenness and random violence were not unusual in Australia, then or since. Numerous people walked away with bleeding head wounds, 65 people were taken to hospital, and more than 40 were arrested.
I met Rolf Harris at Gatwick airport last year. He said he was off to Tampa with the kids
Nice one
Love the Username ❤
😂😂 idiot
He saud the same to me in florida
Class
I seen Rolf Harris one time in town, shouted at him ' i remember you doing 2 little boys in 1979' he shouted back ' piss off that was Jimmy Saville '
Hahaha, good one :)
"....Can you tell what I am yet........."
I used to love Rolf Harris when I was younger and I was absolutely sickened when news emerged of what he'd been doing its a great pity most of what was thrown at him on stage appeared to have missed their target 🏴
Not as much as he would have loved you, when you were young 🤣
Me too, I loved his shows as a kid, especially watching him paint, and he seemed so sincere, decent and genuine. I was staggered when the news broke. Savile and Glitter, even Stuart Hall, were less of a surprise, but Rolf Harris... ?!?! Just goes to show that you never can tell.
@@justinneill5003 Rolf Harris drops his trousers.
"Can you tell what it is yet?"
@@raypurchase801 Yeah, I know, and “Jake the Peg” with his “extra leg,” the “Two Little Boys” with “two little toys”, it never gets old does it?
@@justinneill5003 Says to a little girl, "D'you wanna play my didgery doo? Practice on this first. Just press your lips to it..."
It doesn't make me angry, just makes me sad at how some of our childhood TV icons have fallen
He got a little boy to climb up on his horse?
Does that apply to Rod Hull? 📺
@@trixiek942 Someone actually gets it..😄
@@B400 I got it too, after thinking about it for a few moments!
@@reddwarfer999 Switched on you are....
I saw Rolf live and I was on Jim’ll fix it and not once was I touched.
It’s effected me all my life knowing that I was even to ugly for those two.
Im now 55 and my wife won’t come near me.
Life can be a funny thing sometimes.
That made me laugh because I actually used to go to youth chess training weekends run by a guy who was later exposed as a nonce- and never once had anything inappropriate even suggested to me. Oh well, we all have our cross to bear!
It was ridiculous that such a smaltzy act as Harris was put on that bill. It was a rock and pop line up and most people there there to see the hard rock pub band, The Angels. The show was broadcast live on tv and Harris was there for variety to entertain the little kids and mums and dads at home. The drunk teens and 20 somethings weren’t having it. Harris was hooked early to try and appease the crowd by getting The Angels on early. Unfortunately by then, pelting the stage had become a game for the crowd and it was ironically Doc Neeson, the singer from The Angels, who the crowd was there to see, who wore a large bottle in the head before the band were even halfway through their set. Thus ended the show and the crowd didn’t get to see the show they wanted to see so badly.
Informed comment that puts the video clip into perspective - thank you.
I've never heard of The Angels. Pretty neanderthal to not even let the band you went to see play because you threw things at them.
be better-informed if he had read the intro:
"Later in the evening, however, Australia's legendary hard rockers The Angels were hit by cans, empty champagne bottles and sheets of signage, ripped from the front of the stage. "
@@therespectedlex9794the Angels are known as "Angel City" on the international market.
I remember when i was a kid Rolf had a stroke ..... he had lovely soft hands.
The wisdom of crowds was actually right for once.
you spelt nonce wrong
He touched so many
HAHA!! 😂😂 Yes he certainly did the nasty nonce
👍🏻
Especially 2 little boys and their wooden horse!
@@kt47793 : Alot of his fans still think its Nonce-sense 😃👍
@@garytwitchett9359 lol 😂😂😂 very good unfortunately its true too
It's just a pity that nobody brought any grenades.
The crowd must have known
So, those 100,000 people knew? But then everyone just forgot again?
They just didn't like him.
Nah anonymous crowds are just full of assholes.
Rolf was already a bit unpopular in Australia. Sort of Britain's Australian not theirs.
There was at least one young man, maybe early 20s, shouting abuse at Harris from down the front. A member of the road crew said years later the shouter was very upset, didn't throw anything.
@@darryl_mason Was he one of the two little boys?
I read somewhere that he used to go on TV shows and say I NEVER TOUCHED HER YOUR HONOUR as a catch phrase in the early 70s
He got out his diggeridoo...and all f**king hell broke loose
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪😎😎😎😎mateeeee
You have to understand that most Australians thought of Rolf Harris as a mediocre, anodyne performer who pandered to audiences in a transparently awful way. The fact that he was exposed as a predator decades later...well, I don't think everyone was surprised.
Even Jason Donvan came to England to sing, the english love the aussi rejects.
I have to confess, with respect to ANY victims, of ANY of these people, I AM surprised at the other names, if people being caught on the yew tree list, because if I had his singing and artistic talents, and the warmness to my mind, that Stuart Hall apparently hid behind, with his amusing hee hee hee laugh, I would be wanting to wake up to myself, and say, "WHAT AM I DOING?" if I knew I was doing this terrible stuff.
I don't know. Mass hysteria can be a funny thing. Especially with a bunch of drunken Ozzies. Harris was found guilty of groping. And he was denied a retrial. I wonder why. He was found guilty by a jury. Not by a judge. Remember O.J. Simpson was found innocent by a jury. But guilty by a judge in the latter civil court. Later more people accused Harris, but he was not found guilty. And one of his groping cases was later overturned. According to Wikipedia.
@@Deontjie ah yes because, the site that anyone and anybody can edit, is a very reliable source of Info
My mum actually said that even though he was an assumed talented man, she said she had this bad feeling whenever she saw him on TV. Like she somehow knew he was creepy in some way. Well, when I found out what he did only last year, boy she was RIGHT!
I think that Audience could see into the future.....
He was expecting a big hand on his entrance instead the audience gave him a ‘four x’
a loud "XXXX off" 😂😂😂😂
Imagine what they would throw now...
Well if we are talking about the BBC it would be a party!
Him on the Barbie and that's not the female Barbie either.
i know but we must still treat this man with respect and call him Sir.@@trixiek942
I loved Rolf as a kid.
I'm sure he'd have loved me, too.
He wasn't into males.
@@CrankCase08he was actually.
@@Leeann-rz3ei I can't find any record of it.
Does not matter he loved men same as you do.
@@CrankCase08 2 little boys a hit record he had
Certain members of the Australian Cricket team weren't the only one caught ball tampering
LOL😁
Proves what I’ve always said: if they look like one, sound like one and act like one then they’re probably a children’s entertainer
They knew what Rolf was up to in his spare time.
obviously his victims were in the crowd
As Bernard manning said ''Rolf Harris, what does that man do? My mom thinks he's a painter and decorator''
😂😅.. Very good..
Bernard also said 'Tie me kangaroo down sport ' what's that all about ? Dirty bastard !
I met Rolf when I worked at a local theatre, he seemed like a genuine guy, got his autograph too. I always liked his art and easygoing nature... Shame he turned out to be a sex offender.
One of the counts against him got overturned only a few years later when it was found there was no evidence he had attended the community centre where the alleged assault occurred, let alone abused anyone there. It makes me nervous of the other counts, lots of stories like yours suggesting he was a genuine guy
@@MichaelGeorge161
I think he was okay, but, maybe he did do some inappropriate things.
It is strange that when loved public figures get disgraced, we tend to only remember them for whatever indiscretion they committed and not their work. Dunno... Mad world.
@@MichaelGeorge161Yeah I never felt right about the whole thing with Rolf to be honest, to me things just never quite added up so to speak, maybe he was used as a scapegoat for someone much higher up?
Rolf played the "Aussie" trope to the UK TV audiences, Australian people ignored him bcoz he was boring & lacked anything genuine. Now we know why. Wise crowd this one.
He was a favourite in Oz back in the 60s, very clever performer! Not ignored at all! But oh how the mighty have fallen!
@@jimcrawford5039 He recorded a version of Led Zeppelins's "Stairway to Heaven"
He was big in Oz 60/70s..
1980 the fans were hitting 'the shit', it's 2014 and the shit is hitting the fan.... right Rolf
people used to pelt 'anti-comedian' ted chippington with beer cans and he just used to pick them up and drink them gratefully. the more he got pelted, the happier he was
''5 pence, can't be bad...instead of throwing coins at me, if you could all just chip in and buy me a couple of pints after the show, I'd really appreciate it''
Doc Neeson and Chris Bailey from The Angels were hit on the same stage that night.
They must've loved him, there's still beer in them tinnys and bottles 😁
It'll be piss not beer.
'Have you worked out what it is yet ?' Looks like a full bottle of Newky Brown, in bound !
I remember watching tv when in primary school and this bearded man on a kids show in England showed locally in Australia talking about what a success he has been in England , and he had a pre pubescent girl sitting on his lap and he was rubbing her thighs , I was about in grade seven at the time , but remember thinking this is wrong
@Sam Myers Leo Tsouris was knocking one out watching the clip.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer man.
How this bloke managed to become a mainstay of TV for decades never fails to amaze me. Notwithstanding his devious sexual behaviour. We must have been so gullible.
Dever underestimate the stupidity of the general populace
I remember his show well and we loved it as kids and thought ralf was a nice man and great fun scary but for the grace of god there go any of us or our kids.
No different to Saville in UK, seems white anglos love their peados
You can thank the corrupt BBC for that, they covered for him and Savile
It was his devious sexual behaviour that saw him last on the BBC for decades.
Rolf Harris : "Hey kids !" >Unzips pants< "Can you see what it is yet ?"
One of the rules of showbiz presentation:
Unless you really do enjoy being pelted with beer cans or bottles whilst on stage, DON'T try to bullshit the crowd by pretending that you are loving it.
The basis of this rule?
It's that so many of these open air projectiles events can often turn into the gift that just keeps on giving.
You're talking out of your arse.
Entertainers of this generation are terribly misunderstood.... when I was young, Jimmy Saville took me to the television Centre in London and fixed it for me to Milk a Cow Blindfold.... whilst in the next studio, you could hear Rolf doing two little boys.....🙂
Good times......
Sounds like the therapys not going to good
And Gary Glitter asked all the under 12's if they wanted to be in his gang and Stuart Hall was hosting an edition of Jeux San Noncieres.
That is old one
Lmao
You're not wearing rainbow socks?
Definitely on point!
I have personally looked into the eyes of this man, and he was not happy!
When?
@@markyj23 At about the time when the accusations against him were only just beginning to appear in the public domain. It was at the Queen's Windsor Farm Shop.
@@CrankCase08 Well, that says it all really. Most of those who were exposed a few years ago were knighted and well in with Thatcher and the Tories.
Guess I must have misunderstood what vetting means. It must mean that they check to make sure that they are dirty filthy nonces before they hand out the gongs, not the other way.
@@oleggorky906 I think it's a pre requirement to be one of a list of deviants to be considered in the first place.
@@neilisagum7623 It certainly appears that that is the case.
I remember watching him on TV painting a portrait of a little girl. Unfortunately, there was a bit of confusion when she asked him to touch her up a bit..
I don’t know what it is about glasses and a beard that 8 year old girls find so irresistible
Stolen Frankie Boyle joke
ONLY IN A FATHERLY WAY
He was my family's neighbour when we lived in a flat in Malta. His was a holiday flat.
He was very friendly with the Royal Family
Anyone who can stand there and sing in front of that must be brave as hell . . .. !!!
Audience must have been a lot of teenage girls who were on his programmes
he changed his name to
Pok um Yung and moved to Cambodia just before he died
Did they know something we didn't ?
This aged unintentionally
It should have been bricks.
if they were thrown at you, then yes
I love it. Would have totally whipped batteries at him.
Obviously thinking about his ‘extra leg’
Diddle um diddle um....etc
Missiles from the kids he assaulted.
I met Rolf at my primary school in the 80s ..very disturbing to think about , considering what he was later found out to be
Why, what did he do at the school ?
@@melvisbrooks9664 Are you are a pedo supporter.
@@melvisbrooks9664 He rung the school bell!
He tolled it off?
One thing is certain..his peg leg wasn't the only thing on his mind
Must of been a the kids choice awards🤨
He must be blind as a bat he didn't flinch.
this was way before what happened,
Didgeridoo throw away the cell key.
Oh dear.
So wot was that extra leg ?
For Aussies to throw their beer away like that we'll there is obviously no love lost there 😂😂I bet it was the 5% stuff 😂😂😂😂
Pretty sure wasn't Carlton.
No it was full on piss water who gives a 4 xxxx beer 😆
@leewoodley4329 cheers for that I really needed a Saturday night laugh.Hopefully my next laugh will be when Fiji beat England bell ends in the Rugby World Cup.
@@scottrichards4532 I don't really give a 4 xxxx for the rugby either 😆👍
@leewoodley4329 ok lol well I was cheering for the Aussies last night against England overpaid primmadonna football team 🤣
Do you think they knew something
Let's face it, we are here for the comments.
Rolf and Andrew are to become a double act called Two little Men
So according to a news report of that event, Rolf Harris got off lightly compared to others
They knew he was a wrong un
It couldn't happen to a nicer guy 😁
Two Little Boys Takes On A Whole Fucking New Meaning Space-Cadets...
I’m getting the word....
classic
Never heard of this guy! And what did he do to make everyone so pissed?
Well done crowd 😂😂😂
They all called him Sir.
They must have heard everything about him. Very surprised on how he turned out like Jimmy Seville predictors in disguise. 😢
It must've been a very hot night and the KB Lager was flat.
KB lager was also known as kid's beer, scary fact.
The K.B. was known by those who loved BEER as 'Kid's Beer" seems ironic now. The evil bastard
COP THAT YOU HORNY OLD NONCE!!
That was weird Rolf being pelted with empty plastic bottles and beer cans and picked up the bottle and a beer can but it's empty to drink.
The audience obviously knew something the rest of us didn't.
It's like they saw the future!
When I was a kid this creep was always on TV and stupidly popular. My Dad really didn't like him and he couldn't say why, I didn't understand but I do now.
Harris & Savile often met up in a quiet pub just outside Redhill. There was a barmaid working there, who was known as Nanny Whip?
He was a better painter than an entertainer in my opinion...that's all I can say about him without getting angry
Same as that Austrian guy.
at least Rolf Harris entertained more than Paul Hogan
As Bernard manning said ''Rolf Harris, what does that man do? My mom thinks he's a painter and decorator''
He did my lounge..
They knew better
Hilarious 😂
Rolf is such a fitting name for this vile thing since thats the noise that tends to exit my mouth when i think of him.
they knew
I hope the beer cans were filled with "recycled " beer😂
They knew.....
Im getting the word NONCE ........
Should've stuck to playing with his stylophone...
This happened like over 30 years before the news came out of what he did. Wonder why they hated him in 79 🤔
Real estate swindle.
he had more talent that you'll ever have so do not be jealous of him cos you're a nothing.@trixiek942
For a nation that does well in front of the stumps, the aim displayed here is pretty bloody shocking...
The nation doesn't do well in front of the stumps, you're speaking on a group of handpicked cricketers.
Individuals are either good or bad at throwing.
None of the girls liked drinking KB Lager anyway.
Why did they do this, have i lost the story that ledd to it?
I was at that show. The whole day was weird. The vibe was sour from before lunch and fights were breaking out all day. If I recall the crowd was not reacting to him but the show itself. I think John English was on before him, and for reasons I dont recall his set was cut short, something like only 10 minutes of a 40 minute gig. Anyway after that no one was interested in listening to kids songs for an hour. After the show things were no better. There were running battles at the train stations and even on the trains
Real estate swindle.
Maybe the aussies knew something us brits didn't at that time?
@trixiek942very likely.
when Australians throw a full glass of beer at you, then you have definately been a wrongun !
Fosters isn't beer! 😅
no, it's lemonade.@@andrewhaines3259
@@andrewhaines3259what is it then, orange juice?
Pity those cans didn't knock him out or injured him the crowd must of had a bad vibe back then
Unfortunately they did knock out the lead singer of the headline act (Doc Neeson of hard rock band, The Angels who were massive in Australia at the time), when he was hit in the head with a bottle.
@trixiek942 just saying but you are right but if only time was turned back
His popularity was waning in Aus long before the allegations!
Hasn't the world suffered enough after WW2 and the Rwanda genocide.
that aint beer in those cups :D
I met him in 2013 ....shook his hand and saw in his eyes his reaction after I did not have the right kind of pen for an autograph.....I was 50 at the time with many life's experiences...had a real bad feeling about him as I said to my friends,
He was NOT what HE PORTRAID ...Good luck in Hell ...WANKERRR
Do you know what the right kind of pen is?
Can you guess what it is yet, your hand Rolf... Vile person
It was a 'moment' in history when people found out smears, lies, exaggeration, innuendo and playing the victim could be an internet driven force powerful enough to destroy peoples' lives. Rolf was one of many who were inadvertently dragged into this troll frenzy that makes social media the force for 'good' we now all love and fear (but most of all fear).
He's certainly not squeaky clean, but I don't think he's in the same depth of depravity as Saville and Glitter. Just an entitled old git that thought he could do as he liked.
Might have been worse now I expect!