Barry John famously reckoned he had to live three lives on returning from the greatest Lions’ tour of them all — one as an employee at Midland Bank, another as a family man and the third as a pop star.
Quite how he found time to be a world-beating rugby player is hard to work out.
His box-office value was illustrated by a story Cliff Morgan used to tell about him, concerning a large sign outside a rugby ground before a match which read: ‘Admission, £2. If Barry John plays — £10’.
