“David was saying, ‘You can trust [Tony DeFries] with your life.’ I wonder what David says now? That whole [MainMan management] office Tony DeFries and David has was turned over to bailiffs. They had the balls to take over the world, but we had more money – £168! Tony’d be in a stately home and you’d go around for dinner and there’d be oil paintings on the walls 20 feet tall. And he’d explain all this stuff. He’d start from an illogical point, and then make it totally logical. But if you remembered the beginning, it was bullshit. One night I nearly got shot, and he put himself between me and the guy with the gun, backstage in America. So my feelings are weird with Tony. But he was sticky.”

Ian Hunter, Uncut #110, July 2006