Death of Keith Blakelock Violence and looting spread throughout England for several days, leading to five deaths, extensive property damage and over 3,000 arrests. Death of Keith Blakelock Keith Henry Blakelock was a London Metropolitan Police constable who was murdered on 6 October 1985 during rioting at the Broadwater Farm housing estate in Tottenham, north London. The trouble broke out after a local black woman died of heart failure during a police search of her home, and took place against a backdrop of unrest in several English cities and a breakdown of relations between the police and black communities. PC Blakelock had been assigned
The Tin Man Was a Dreamer Jim Price. Having recently completed his duties on the Rolling Stones' "STP tour" of North America, Hopkins began work on his second official solo album in London during September 1972. Sessions took place at the Beatles' old Apple Studio, in short bursts between Hopkins' session work for what would be two major releases of 1973: George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" and the Stones' "Goats Head Soup" (the latter's held at Dynamic Sound in Kingston, Jamaica). All the material was written by either Hopkins or in collaboration with singer Jerry Lynn Williams. One of the solo compositions, "Edward", was