Brighton Palace Pier The Graham Greene novel "Brighton Rock" featured the Palace Pier. John Boulting's 1947 film adaptation helped established "low life" subculture in Brighton, and the climax of the film is set on it, where gangleader Pinkie Brown (played by Richard Attenborough) falls to his death. The 1953 B movie "Girl on a Pier" is set around the Palace Pier and also features the clash between holidaymakers and gangsters in Brighton. The Who's 1973 concept album "Quadrophenia" was inspired in part by band leader Pete Townshend spending a night underneath the pier in March 1964. It is a pivotal part of the
The Words That Maketh Murder version of the video was released on 15 March 2011. Although Harvey had previously performed a number of songs from the album in 2009, "The Words That Maketh Murder" was debuted live at La Maroquinerie in Paris, France on 14 February 2011, her first live performance to promote "Let England Shake". This performance was also broadcast live as a webcast through a number of online sites, including the concert's promoter Dezzer Offline. The performance was shortly followed by an in-studio radio session for "Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show" on Absolute Radio on 17 February, and later for a BBC Radio 1