Jimmy Moody await trial for armed robbery His cellmate was Provisional IRA member Gerard Tuite. The two men and fellow-robber Stan Thompson escaped Brixton Prison on 16 December 1980, which put them to the top of Scotland Yard's Most Wanted list. It was alleged that Moody had been paid £10,000 by the IRA to help get Tuite out of prison. Fleeing to Northern Ireland, Moody worked with the Provisional IRA. It was there that Moody coined the expression of awarding someone an OBE (One Behind The Ear) as in to shoot them in the head, a play on an OBE Award. The
Bomber (song) read Len Deighton's novel "Bomber". It became the inspiration for a forty-foot aluminium tube lighting rig used for their shows, a replica of a Heinkel He 111 bomber. The song became a staple of the band's live set, with live versions being released on the albums "No Sleep 'til Hammersmith", "Everything Louder than Everyone Else", "Live At Brixton Academy" and ""; and on the video releases "The Birthday Party", "25 & Alive Boneshaker" and "The Best of Motörhead". The B-side of the single was the non-album track "Over the Top", which has subsequently been included as a bonus track on