Another example of the days when celebrities genuinely liked mixing with tabloid journalists... and when those journalists were highly regarded.
Former People reporter Dan Wooding recalls nights in the old Mirror group pub, the Stab in the Back. It was a magnet for celebrities, he writes on the gentlemenranters site.
On one occasion, in the mid-1970s, he found himself standing next to John Conteh, who was then world light-heavyweight boxing champion and rarely out of the headlines.
Conteh told him: "I can't believe I am here with all these famous journalists."
