4. Ian Robinson – Danger On The Road

Ian ‘Robbo’ Robinson was a former British paramilitary officer who became a bodyguard to the rich and famous, including George Harrison, Gary Moore and Johnny Rotten. He worked as both bodyguard and road manager for Oasis during their first rush to fame in the 1990s and wrote the book What’s The Story about his adventures with the band in 1996. Still, when he was asked in an interview about his most dangerous assignment, the battling Gallagher brothers came second to an incident he recalled from the early 2000s working on a security detail at a concert for British synthpop meister Marc Almond at a nightclub in Moscow. As he describes it, the club was filled with about equal parts rich Muscovites and gangsters, and one group of shady characters approached Robbo. First, it was about having a beer, then one of them told Robbo that his boss’ wife had taken a fancy to the stylin’ fur coat that Marc Almond was wearing that night. As in, she wanted it, and she wasn’t taking no for an answer. Robbo talked to Marc, who wasn’t about to pony up one of his favorite coats. Robbo saw to it that the band slipped out the back, but he ended up getting beaten up by the Russian mob boss’ crew for his trouble. Robinson quit the bodyguard biz not long after for the more relaxing life of a fireman.

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