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
The Guns of Brixton by Tim Armstrong. Will Hermes has called the cover "the sound of history circling in wondrous ways", because the song references Cliff's character Ivan from the 1972 film "The Harder They Come". Reverend and the Makers frontman Jon McClure stated that their song "Nostalgia" from the album "ThirtyTwo" was "my attempt at a modern 'Guns of Brixton'". The Guns of Brixton "The Guns of Brixton" is a song by the English punk rock band the Clash. It was written and sung by bassist Paul Simonon, who grew up in Brixton, south London. The song has a strong reggae influence, reflecting