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Old 11th June 2019, 04:17 PM
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June 11th, 1974

While The Who were playing a concert at Madison Square Garden in New York, Ken Russell was in Portsmouth and Southsea filming the 'Bernie's Holiday Camp' sequence for the film version of 'Tommy'.

Somehow a fire started on the South Parade Pier, which was being used as a location, burning it down.

Ever the maverick, Russell included footage of the blaze in the finished film

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