Who famously 'attacked' Russell Harty whilst being interviewed by him?
Russell Harty won a Pye Television Award for the Most Outstanding New Personality of the Year in 1973. Harty remained on ITV until 1980, at which point his show moved to the BBC. Harty interviewed the Jamaican American singer Grace Jones on the show in November 1980. After he had interviewed Jones and turned away from her to address another guest, Jones appeared to become offended and started repeatedly hitting him. Initially shown on BBC-2 in a mid-evening slot, Harty's chatshow ran until 1982 before being moved to an early evening BBC-1 slot in 1983 where it was now simply titled "Harty".
Russell Harty was at the height of his fame as a teen idol and king of glam rock. During the interview, Harty asked Bolan what he thought he would be doing when he was forty or sixty years old. He replied that he didn't think he would live that long. Bolan died two weeks before his 30th birthday on 16 September 1977. In 1972, he was given his own series, "Russell Harty Plus" (later simply titled "Russell Harty"), conducting lengthy celebrity interviews, on ITV, which placed him against the BBC's "Parkinson". Parts of Russell Harty's interview with the Who in 1973 were