Astor Club a remark which led to a gangland war (Cornell himself being shot dead in March 1966 in front of witnesses at the bar of the Blind Beggar pub in Whitechapel) and so, ultimately, to the trials and sentences which destroyed both the Kray and Richardson gangs. Indeed, when the Krays were arrested for the Cornell murder (two years after the fact), they were drinking (at 6 a.m.) at The Lion pub, Bethnal Green, intending to move on later to the Astor. The Astor survived beyond the era of the Krays and Richardsons and continued to attract wealthy customers. An Astor
Kray, miy ridniy kray Year" with the original version for the song. The name of the song is Krai which in the Ukrainian language means the land with implication of a homeland. The Russian language has a similar word which, however, means a frontier land, a periphery. The song tells about the land of Prykarpattia between the rivers of Cheremosh and Prut. The original track was recorded at Kiev studios of Melodiya. Kray, miy ridniy kray "Kray, miy ridniy kray" (, English: My homeland, my native homeland) is a song originally recorded by Sofia Rotaru for her 1981 album "Sofia Rotaru and Chervona Ruta".