He blazed through the 90s, an explosive mix of hellraising laddishness and sheer comic talent. As the 68-year-old resurfaces in Rehab, a musical about a drug-addicted pop star, he hits the Groucho to relive his triumphs and ponder his regrets
Watch Allen in the video for World in Motion, the New Order song he co-wrote for England’s 1990 World Cup campaign.
Allen snorted his first line in the late 1980s when he was pitching a script to UB40. He wanted the band to star in The Yob, a comedy he had written for the Comic Strip Presents… series on Channel 4 in which he played a pretentious, beret-wearing video director who accidentally merges, The Fly-style, with a soccer hooligan. “I’d never done coke before. I remember thinking, ‘Fuck, that’s expensive.
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