We used to know a girl who 'went out' with Alex Higgins and one night, she asked us to go with her to a snooker club in Chorlton, Manchester, when Higgins was still a top player. He had passes for us all to go to the Apollo and see Bruce Springsteen that night! We couldn't wait but he had to finish off a series of games for a bet he was on. By the time we got there, Springsteen was part-way through the show but we had very good seats and were escorted back stage afterwards to mingle with the band! The thing is, Higgins was the first person we'd ever seen snorting coke and on top of the booze he'd drank, he was a right embarrassment and Springsteen's road crew had us lashed out. Kim, she was called and her parents ran a country-type pub which is how she came to meet Higgins.