Boris Johnson - My Fake Diary

Monday, 16 July 2012

Concert organisers pulled the plug on rock stars Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney after the pair defied the sound curfew at London's Hyde Park, silencing their microphones at the tail end of the show.

Huge concerts in Hyde Park, landscaped garden and parkland that abuts some of London's wealthiest neighbourhoods, have increasingly caused friction between fans and the area's well-heeled residents, many of whom gripe about the late-night noise and nuisance.

that the singers should have been allowed to keep going.

"It sounds to me like an excessively efficacious decision, you won't get that during the Olympics. If they'd have called me, my answer would have been for them to jam in the name of the Lord!"