“When Andrew Kerr, as a young lawyer, took on the task of acting as secretary to the still young Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1967, it was a wayward and financially insecure organisation, viewed with some suspicion by the city fathers. The council did not warm to its chaotic expansion, and the police were unimpressed when Kerr applied for a licence to open a late-night club. ‘We’ll give you one night, and you’ll find that every known thief and prostitute will be in your place, and we’ll close you down straight away,’ he was told.”

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