Desmond Leslie Punches Bernard Levin

[alexwilsonNC]

Dark Lord Ashens sent me.

[tarff26]

What a dick Desmond Leslie was. Your wifes acting was shit, deal with it.

[OtomoTenzi]

Herk, an inconsistent framerate hampers an otherwise golden era classic of a moment caught on film... : P

[WacoGans]

Watch for the blue light in the sky, and we shall bring you proof of Mantell.

[WacoGans]

That was for Adamski!...and Orthon of course...give my regards to Desert Center, CA...

[WacoGans]

That was for Adamski!

[woodpit420]

*spitfires

[woodpit420]

Desmond Leslie was in the RAF during WW2 and flew stipfires.

[ElHanko]

@mrfrostynova - it was the guys wife. And, to be fair, Levin was a bit of a dick.

[Steve7508]

Does anyone know where I can find the original review?

[mrfrostynova]

Ninja reflexes from Levin! Plus, what a shit reason to start a fight - writing a critical article? Doing his job? Lofty fella needs to man up and grow thicker skin.

[malarbusto]

Good evening Mr Morgan [Piers], do you think you could be so awfully kind as to stand? It shan't take a moment

[TheBoysProductions]

Desmond*

Damn should have re-read that first >.>

[TheBoysProductions]

I'm pretty sure Desmon Leslie is related to me some way.

My dad told me about it like 2 years ago, but I just now came back upon this video :P

[GordonMorrice]

Levin was annoying but never physically harm annoying people. Juts mock them. Levin was a polite cunt, unlike the cunts of today. ALWAYS punch them. See: Cowell, Simon.

[no1sailor]

I love the calm before the rage! That was hilarious, and should be the way all fights in and outside pubs are commenced!

[yowzephyr]

Good manners at the start, but Mr. Leslie fails to also say "Would you kindly remove your glasses before I thrash you?"

To which Mr. Levin might have replied "Then remove your glasses too, please. For I shall counter punch, striking you as well."

To which Mr. Leslie might have replied "That won't be necessary. I am quite taller than you and have an ever so much longer arm reach than you. You shan't possibly be able to reach me."

[Americonflation]

@yowzephyr LOL. funny

[coetmor]

Just one 'fucking' moment... hahahah

[hollium]

It's like little and large

[C2TheMizzle]

This must be the first ever TV blooper xD

[Fiasco6Radio6Show6]

Good, Levin was a cunt!

[xandy1959]

class

[goodquotz]

From far across time came the heart-cry of a world of men who could not share with us what we had made. We were within. They were without: excluded. That is when we learned the Law that no man can know joy so long as a single being still suffers. No man can endure paradise while other men are shut out. That is why it had to be done. That is why we had to leave our bright home, renounce our birthright and join the silent watchers.

Desmond Leslie TAML

google "Benjamin Creme + Space brothers"

[MURDOCMULDOON]

wow , that was incredibly well written , resonates instantly ...where is it from?

[folcker]

That was hardcore really TV for it's day.If any one has footage of the travel documentary series by Levin that was on TV around the late 80's please post it.Think it was called 'To the end of the Rhine'

[Nosmos]

You can tell he was rattled by that incident when he got back on his stool!!!! A lesson to all critics there, don't think you'll always get away with what you say!!!

[cookmoore]

doesn't mean he should've

[Shavarnarak]

@Nosmos

I think the lessons critics should take is more to have a good legal team and sue the living fuck out of idiots who can't take criticism and get violent on camera over it.

[cookmoore]

That's really something!

In front of a real audience!!!

[slitheen]

That's a crap punch really. He'd have really felt one of mine. Not that I like to go around punching people, of course. :)

[cornbruiser]

All critics should be punched as hard as possible on a regular basis.

[neddac]

That Is Class!!!!

Lukiebags, are you related To Dez Lez??

[Lukiebaggs]

yep - he's my grandpa

[Zeusdattilo]

Hey...great! I was twelve when I read "Flying Saucers Have landed"...great man...

[Marveh]

@Lukiebaggs your grandpa's a ledge ;p

[kerfuffleful]

@Lukiebaggs : If you're shooting straight that ur a Leslie, then I'd like to offer my heartiest congratulations in celebration of ur grandfather knocking down that weasel Levin. Anyone who bothers to check this story out thoroughly will ultimately discover that Levin deserved exactly what he got...and more, IMO. Moreover, the smooth, well-articulated (in both verbiage AND tone) and gentlemanly warning that Leslie delivered prior to delivering the virtual coup de grace was just brilliant. 

[kerfuffleful]

@Lukiebaggs: Of course, if ur misrepresenting your relation, then I would have something else to offer to you in lieu of congratulations...and it wouldn't be nearly as cordial.

[Nosmos]

Wow! A Couple of people agreed with Leslie's actions!! I always got the impression from this that a lot people felt that Levin had got his commeupance (!) for being too clever for his own good!

[krelllabs]

I gather that DL had botched the speaker system for his

wife's performance, causing her voice to be heard no further than two rows from the stage, and that he left the theatre beforehand for another social occasion. Supposedly even she did not blame Levin for his bad revew, and wondered about all the upset.

[shaymultimedia]

Good job he didn't connect, look at the size of him. Trivia piece: rumour has it that Paul McCarthy married Heather Mills in a venue in Ireland owned by the daughter of the guy who threw the punch, can anybody confirm this?

[Lukiebaggs]

Home of the Irish Leslie's Castle Leslie, county Monaghan Ireland.

Consider it confirmed, I'm a Leslie myself.

[cyrillicsam]

Who's Paul McCarthy?

[igrahamb]

That's a very British way to begin a fight -- "would you stand up for a second, it won't take a minute..."

[Marveh]

@igrahamb hes irish

[MintySpunkBubble]

Lol! "Would you stand up a second" and he's still half his height. If there was a gracious way to crack a man on the nose this has to be the most polite way I've ever seen. Decades before Jerry Springer too. I would have liked to have seen what Levin (the Wagner fan) would have made of Leslie's music.

R.I.P Bernard Levin, Desmond Leslie.

[rafllejam]

This wasn't part of our Saturday evening show.

[soniclzhang]

I saw this video after listen to his record "MUSIC OF THE FUTURE", I even like him more. The record was great, so much advance in that time, still amazing even for me as a experimental musician in 2008. Didn't know much about other work he ever done, but would be much interesting to find out.

[burnsybaby1987]

That lone applause of support stuck out like a sore thumb!!!

[randomdave79]

Bernard Levin. Jew-Boy.

[Leazesenders]

A good head butt indeed would have splattered leslie's nose!..then when he was down a good toe point in an eye works wonders!!!

[99fulham99]

I cannot abide bullys like that cunt Leslie , I would have stuck my head on his nose and splattered it all over his face.

[CamL69]

Ummm...yes, cus bullys always wear a suit and ask their victims to stand up! You've too much time on your hands 99fulham99. Peace...

[thecockneycockend]

its a good job levins boys were there to protect him or that tall fucker would have kicked the living shit out of him.

[ann1985]

That fucker, is my great Uncle

[explodingplant]

so? doesn't change that he's an archaic fart. acts like he's back in medieval times or something.

[whyteay]

I read somewhere that the two of them met years later in a restaurant or somewhere, and didn't even refer to the incident, just had a polite conversation! Doesn't get more English than that (though I think Leslie was Irish in fact).

[ann1985]

Yes, Leslie was Irish

[stude]

it's such a polite assault.

[LeboviciAB84]

Crikey, I've seen this so many times on clipshows and the like, and I never knew it involved the great pioneer of electronic music! If there was any non-patronising way to congratulate you on your ancestry, I would.

[KWStudd]

yeah round two was better when the two guys stripped down to their underpants and hit each other with big dead fish..wow it was wild,they actually made up and a big snog

[JanineRobin]

LOL KWstudd

[KWStudd]

yeah and another thing, where have all the real men gone...all you faggots with your guns and knives..feast your eyes on this clip of a real british action hero in...er...in action yeah go girl

[KWStudd]

disgusting that such brutal horrer is displayed where the innocent eyes of youth could be scrambled and deranged...no wonder we live in fear my god...

[ann1985]

Shut up!!

[KWStudd]

kung fu chop splatter gut spill mega-voilence blood and gore explosion awesome shilling destructive force wow..tooo much i shook for days...nightmare

[abelseeman]

If you look at this you will see that Desmond Leslie was a total coward hitting a shorter man without warning instead of having the guts to challenge him to a fight.

And how did his wife reward him for his so called chivalry? By running off with another man a few years later.

Still, they probably deserved each other while it lasted.

[PadSpin]

In that case we must be related because Desmond was a cousin of mine!!

Small world, huh??

[Lukiebaggs]

who pray tell are you?

[PadSpin]

Hi Luke, I've sent you a private reply!

[lostlion63]

A classic - I think there was a collective cheer around Britain when Levin took that punch. It looks like two school swots arguing over a chess move. Nice one though Desmond, it lets Johnny Foreigner see how terribly polite we British can be - even when trying to knock each others heads off.

[sltr1]

lol suits you sir

[merkage]

What a feeble excuse for a punch. Entertaining all the same.

[jdpenfold]

Take that you awful, sordid, beastly rotter! First rate, old boy, many thanks, have been waiting for someone to put this up. Have you noticed how nobody really knew how to punch in those days? Even during the Battle of Cable Street they look like they're just playfighting.

[Lukiebaggs]

Bernard Levin had slated his wife in a review and he was defending her name, very 19th Century stuff...

[bonfunkjc]

Well its nice to see an assault taking place between two intelligent people rather than yobs.