Nick Cowan
Old Etonian Nick Cowan must be one of the few solicitors who was also co-proprietor of a high-class Mayfair escort agency; Fanny Craddock’s food taster; a Guinness Book of Records nominee for placing the biggest racing jackpot in the history of the turf (an astonishing USD1,600,000 from a modest USD128 on a nine-horse accumulator); spent two years on skates running Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace in LA (where Prince and John Cougar were launched); toured America twice with the Rolling Stones; dealt with Yoko Ono’s and John Lennon’s drugs bust; hung out with Jerry Lee Lewis in Memphis; cruised the Med with Rod Stewart and Rachel; produced Benny Hill’s last TV show and much more besides...