Nofi, you and your devastatingly cynical world view!
Not wishing to deliberate here about the sincerity of Mr Gallagher's selfless fire, life and safety measures in connection with the esteemed significant other of a - likewise esteemed - member, I do venture forth this:
Back in the 70ies BRAVO, a German teen oriented magazine (hey, they were Deep Purple-centric for a while!),
had a lengthy, albeit on an anonymous basis, interview with an, uhum, established groupie. As she told about the pros and cons of her job description plus the people she had "gotten to know" (David Cassidy, Rick Parfitt and Jimmy Page were among them I believe to remember, but I might just be projecting evil on the Zeppelin tunesmith), the interview ended on an empathy-drenched note (and I remember all this
as if it was yesterday):
Q:
"Which one of the rock stars was the nicest one to you?"A:
"Without a question Rory Gallagher! He was very gentle, had great manners, we had breakfast together and he even paid for a taxi to get me home safely. I ironed one of his shirts. He's very shy and romantic, you know."I'm unsure now about the part whether he liked animals or not. Probably if they had Catholic rites and didn't wear any orange.
I felt honor-bound to get this out. Nofi's vile, dirty old man speculations about what might or might not have happened in a dressing room many decades ago while the flames (of desire?) lept higher and higher shall leave no bad aftertaste (half-pun not intended!) with us or compromise enduring memories of either Rory Gallagher or Gary's girlfriend. Whatever happened there, whether safety code prescribed or not, happened with class and due decorum.