The band's hell-raising antics proved less popular with other parts of the aristocracy and the tour ended with them being chased to Southampton docks by a furious, shotgun-wielding Lord Harrington, whose daughter the lead singer had been romancing.
While battling prostate cancer (he won that war) and raisinghell in a very public divorce (he is now married to Judith Nathan, his third wife), he has been banking millions of dollars a year.