‘When we went on to liven up the crowd, I flashed my arse’ – Bad Manners’ Buster Bloodvessel on offending the Pope and the enduring appeal of Special Brew

‘When we went on to liven up the crowd, I flashed my arse’ – Bad Manners’ Buster Bloodvessel on offending the Pope and the enduring appeal of Special Brew

Pope John Paul II ­survived an assassination ­attempt by a member of the Grey Wolves extremist group in St Peter’s Square in Rome in May 1981. But this almost paled in comparison to the effect on papal body and soul in February of that year, of seeing London skinhead ­Buster Bloodvessel of Bad Manners moon at the audience in a live TV performance during the Sanremo Music Festival in Liguria.