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75 Years of Music and Orient
20.10.26, 17:30 Updated 20.10.26, 23:41 5 Minute Read
“I’ll be the only chairman of Leyton Orient ever to make money out of the club”, Barry Hearn leers over the prawn crackers.
“And how are you going to do that?”
“You’ll see”
It is 1998 and Hearn is trying, unsuccessfully, to persuade Julian Lloyd Webber to part with £25,000 for a purely ceremonial place on the Leyton Orient board. Next time they meet, Andrew Lloyd Webber has also been invited, but seems no keener to part with his cash.
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