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"George Davis Is Innocent" was a song on Sham 69's 1978 debut album Tell Us the Truth, and the song "The Cockney Kids Are Innocent" ends with a namecheck. Patrik Fitzgerald also showed support with "George" on the 1979 EP The Paranoid Ward. Davis received a namecheck in the Duran Duran song "Friends of Mine" on the album Duran Duran (1981): the ...
- 1941 (age 81–82), Bletchley, England
- Stoppo (getaway) driver
- 2
- 20 years (released under Prerogative of Mercy), 15 years, 18 months
Feb 10, 2007 · But he made it clear that this did not mean Davis was an innocent man. George's release was celebrated at a huge East End knees-up. But 30 years later Davis says he is still being...
Similar slogans – ‘Free George Davis’, ‘G Davis Is Innocent’, and most famously of all, ‘George Davis is Innocent OK’ – were daubed on walls and rooftops in London and beyond, becoming arguably the most well-known example of graffiti being used as part of a sustained social campaign in England.
Apr 13, 2014 · George Davis Is Innocent: The 1970s Campaign That Proved The Police And State Were Not OK. On August 19, 1975, the third England v Australia Test at Headingley was abandoned following vandalism. A man who said he was a supporter of the George Davis campaign telephoned BBC Radio London and claimed the group was responsible.
May 24, 2011 · BBC News, London. Punk band Sham 69 wrote a song about him, The Who's Roger Daltrey wore a T-shirt declaring his innocence and his name became part of criminal folklore. During the 1970s,...
May 24, 2011 · Tue 24 May 2011 09.53 EDT. T he success of George Davis in his appeal against his conviction for a robbery that took place in 1974 is a historic one in more ways than one. Davis had wanted to...
George Davis is as innocent as he will ever be. A brief court hearing yesterday ended the 27 year saga of the notorious miscarriage of justice that spawned the most famous slogan ever to have...
