Guests included: Slade, The Flirtations, The Scaffold, The Settlers, Mud, Paper Lace, The Glitter Band, Alvin Stardust, The Wombles, Stephanie de Sykes, Showaddywaddy, Limmie & the Family Cooking, Kiki Dee, Polly Brown, David Essex & Barry Blue.
The poet, presenter and member of the Scaffold, Roger McGough was resident in the hall for three years from 1955; he took a degree in French and Geography and served as hall librarian.
Spear had also played on Stanshall's album 'Teddy Boys Don't Knit' (1981 Charisma CAS 1153) and has appeared on albums such as the Scaffold's John Gorman's 1977 album 'Go Man Gorman'.
Some of his speeches, including the one delivered on the scaffold, were published and are printed in the Harleian Miscellany.
The protagonist of the story is Moist von Lipwig, a skilled con artist who was to be hanged for his crimes, but saved at the very last moment by the cunning and manipulative Patrician Havelock Vetinari, who has Moist's death on the scaffold faked.
McGough, Roger (The Scaffold and Liverpool Scene) - vocals, words,
He also created a sculpture depicting Marie Antoinette on her way to the scaffold and another of a member of the Old Guard at Waterloo.
After cleaning of the scaffold, the priest Jørgen Tandberg assisted Simonsen, who talked to the public about his miserable life.