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
Viv Graham shooting. He was shot three times by an unidentified gunman, (one shot leaving a large hole in his back), but managed to drag himself back to Wallsend High Street, where he was found by fellow bouncer, Terry Scott. In spite of him receiving thirty pints of blood, Viv Graham died at North Tyneside General Hospital four hours later, aged just 34. He is buried at Hookergate Cemetery. He had received a telephone death threat just hours before he was shot. Viv Graham had often prophetically predicted that he, "wouldn't see 40". He had curtailed the activities of several narcotics based